Word: walkin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoola Walkin' down the street...
...starving man wolfing a platter of chicken. The kids shrilled an octave higher as the performer knocked out a couple of bars introduction, then quieted down to mere noise as he ducked his head shyly, leaned over to the mike and opened a satchel-sized mouth: "Ah'm walkin' "- each word a hard, booming beat-"Yes indeed, Ah'm talkin'." A diamond-heavy right hand jackhammered treble chords between beats; three saxes, an electric guitar, bass and drums came down hard on each syllable. Six extra loudspeakers hyped up the rainbarrel acoustics of the Dallas hall...
Since then, every record he has cut for Imperial has been a bestseller-standards like My Blue Heaven and Blueberry Hill, and custom-tailored works like Blue Monday and I'm Walkin'. Last week his latest lament, Valley of Tears, was doing well: "Only four weeks old, and that baby is hittin' between seven and eight hundred thousand." Fats talks the words in his songs, and they can be understood-a rarity among rock 'n' rollers. The lyrics are clean, but the beat is lowdown and as basic as they come. His head-rolling piano...
...current PBH blood drive threatens to be "the worst in history," unless walkin donors can augment the donations scheduled this week, Stanley B. Lyss '58, chairman of the PBH drives committee, said yesterday...
...more sympathy; once when he quit looking for work to concentrate on painting, she left him until he agreed to go back to work. But he kept stubbornly on, making his own brushes by cutting up a clothes brush. Once, he broke down. "The day I came walkin' into the Redfern Gallery, I felt I couldn't go on much longer...