My Ding-a-Ling

I put this on the Novelty Records show for Rock'n'Roll Archaeology, and now I can't get it out of my head. So suffer along with me.

This was Chuck Berry's only #1 hit, which I suspect is due to the way he giggles it up here.

Rating My CD's: Around and Around

6. Chuck Berry -- The Great Twenty-Eight

I like the 1950's. And when I say I like the 1950's, I'm not talking about poodle skirts or leather jackets or pompadours or Elvis. Nor is this about some bygone era when men were men, women women, children seen rather than heard, and everyone had a steady job and the Ten Commandments tattooed on the inside of their eyelids. That world only existed on television, and it was meant for children. Actual grown-ups did not need a bunch of beret-sporting hobos with track-marks on their arms and delusions of literacy to tell them that the world was more complicated than The Donna Reed Show let on. So let's just bury the cliche, shall we?