Wake Up Little Susie: Imagine the scenario of this song being presented in 1957. “The movie was boring. We fell asleep, it’s 3 a.m. and everybody is going to think we did something.”
Treat Me Nice: This song is a rip-off of “Teddy Bear.”
You Send Me: Sam Cooke couldn’t carry a tune.
At The Hop: This song is so uninteresting. You can’t even dance to it. All you can really do is stomp your feet. 1958-1964 was a humdrum period in American pop music. After rock and roll and Elvis, nothing really exciting happened until the Beatles came along.
The parody version of this song is “Smoke Some Pot.”
I Beg Of You: A rip-off of both “Don’t Be Cruel” and “Teddy Bear.”
Tequila: As simple as this song is, it’s great and synonymous with the fifties in so many ways.
Poor Little Fool: The plane crash that killed Ricky Nelson could have been murder, or they could have just been messing around with cocaine.
Little Star: This song always makes me think of that crummy kids show that aired in the nineties.
Tom Dooley: I have the album this song comes from. It is kind of interesting, but not very good.
I encountered this song next in music class in Grade 7. The teacher read the lyric “I took her to the mountain and there I took her life.” He then remarked, “What is this? O.J Simpson And His Friend?”
Pastor Peters has done a version of this song which goes in part:
Hang down your head you sinner,
Hang down your head and cry,
Hang down your head you sinner,
It’s for you that Jesus died.
To Know Him Is To Love Him: You get the feeling the guy she was singing about was a real jerk.
The Chipmunks Song: Though this song came out in the fifties, I and most other people will probably most associate The Chipmunks with the eighties.
By the way, thank you Hollywood (read Jews) for destroying The Chipmunks with those two recent movies.
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