The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #117458   Message #2529987
Posted By: GUEST,TJ in San Diego
02-Jan-09 - 05:21 PM
Thread Name: Remembering Singles
Subject: RE: Remembering Singles
Our high school cafeteria, 1954-58, had a jukebox filled with 45's that included "Rock Around The Clock" by Bill Haley and the Comets, Bill Doggett's "Raunchy," several Everly Brothers songs, "Heartbreak Hotel" by Elvis, etc. Songs were five cents a play or six for a quarter. The KT's "Tom Dooley" made it the year before I graduated. I still have a box of 150 or so of these "little records with the big hole" from that era. If you listen to a lot of them today, you can see why there were so many "one-hit-wonders" back then. Lots of good stuff too, and worth a revisit once in a while.