"Desperate Rock'N'Roll" Vol 4

...In point of fact, Barris told me, it was a lurid time...
...Everybody would meet in drive-ins, the most famous of them being the Piccadillyout near Sepulveda Boulevard. It was a hell of a show, all the weird looking roadsters and custom cars, with very loud varoom-varoom motors. By this time Barris had a '36 Ford roadster with many exotic features.
"I had just come from Sacramento, and I wasn't supposed to know anything. I was a tourist, but my car was wilder than anything around. I remember one night this kid comes up with a roadster with no handles. It looked real sharp, but he had to kick the door from the inside to open it. You schould have seen the look on his face when he saw mine---I had the same thing, only with electric buttons". The real action, though, was the drag racing, which was quite, but quite, illegal.
"We'd all be at the Piccadilly or some place, and guys would start challenging each other. You know, a guy goes up and down like it has gangrene or something, and he says: 'You wanna go?' Or, if it was a real grudge match for some reason, he'd say 'You wanna go for pink slips?' The registration on the cars were pink; in other words, the winner got the other guy's car." (excerpt from "the candy kolored tangerine flake streamline baby" by Tom Wolfe to be continued...)
traxfromwax:
1. Kenny McKennon - Call Your Daddy Baby 2. Charlie Cuevias - Do You Wanna Jump 3. Tielman Bros. - Record Hop 4. Teddy "Mr. Bear" McRae - Hi Fi Baby 5. Excels - Lets Dance 6. Sandy Lee - Ballin' Keen 7. Chuck Wiley - I love you so much 8. John Fred - Boogie Children 9. Danny Dill - Hungry For Your Lovin' 10. Fredale Mannew - It's A Gas 11. Eddie Cleary - I Don't Care 12. Doornobs - Hi Fi Baby 13. Sonny Boy Williamson - Polly Put The Kettle On 14. Maynie & Howie - Library Rock 15. Jimmy Sysum - Tears Of Happiness 16. Joe Perkins - How Much Love Can One Heart Hold 17. Jimmy Boyd - Crazy Mixed Up Blues 18. Baby Doll - Hammy In The Holee 19. Don Covey - Ooh My Soul 20. Hugh Ronnel - Who-La-To-Da-Doo
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