#33
This is it, kids.
We've hit the halfway point.
At least as far as the number of posts are concerned.
The actual halfway point for Spring 2018 happens on May 6th.
By then we'll have converted to an every other day post schedule
We should be at #43 then.
Don't worry about it.
It's my problem.
June 1956 - RCA 47-6542 - Hart Brake Motel / Two Tone Shoes
Only two years previous a young Memphis singer named Elvis Presley released his first hit single.
In January of 1956 he released a song some of you may know called "Heartbreak Hotel"
In March Elvis released his version of Carl Perkin's "Blue Suede Shoes" (Carl seen here on the Perry Como Show demonstrating to Como what it sounds like when people who have a soul sing.)
In June of that same year, Homer and Jethro did their versions of both songs.
And the rest, as they say, is history.
(I'd also hazard that Elvis and Homer & Jethro crossed paths on number of bills on the circuit and was probably a fan to a certain extent. I've heard a recording of Elvis at a live show from around this time using some H & J jokes in his introductions...)
September 1956 - RCA 47-6651 - Just Be Here / Where is That Doggone Gal of Mine
After some hunting down the google hole I wasn't able to source an alternate for the A side here. I can then only conclude that it may have been an original that H&J used as they were wont to do from time to time. It's a lively one.
Likewise with the B side which owes more than a little to that "Doggie in the Window" song that they already spoofed.
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