I will be honest. We are going to have to get our own soundsystem next time we do this. Great turn out, capacity event, hot people, lots of hip shaking and drunken unruliness, but some problems with sound. With a few more people in the room it was hard to get it loud it enough with out the speakers cutting out.
Even so, it was still an amazing night of Rock N Roll and Soul from the 50s and 60s, and we are going to work hard to make sure the next one is even more swinging.
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Photos by Emma Daniels of Dear Pluto
I didn’t think they made dirty songs like these in the 1950s. I thought married couples slept in seperate beds and you would get stoned in the town square talking like this.
I am there trying to work out if the ‘Drill Daddy Drill’ song is just innocent, until I hear the line “set up your drill in the middle of my field” and “If the well runs dry we will use another hole”. It reminds me so much of Lil Wayne’s “Miss Officer” and R. Kelly “The Zoo”. Take a bad metaphor and just keep those shamelessly terrible puns coming.
I am going to be playing a set of more XXX 50s Rock jams at our Rock N Roll and Soul party, Mashed Potato, this Friday at Hollywood Hotel. Here are some awkward photos of people dancing by Dear Pluto’s Emma Daniels.
Listen: Dorothy Ellis – Drill Daddy Drill | Buy Me
Listen: The Toppers – Let Me Bang Your Box | Buy Me
Listen: The Swallows – It’ Ain’t The Meat | Buy Me
Listen: Connie Allen & Todd Rhodes & Orchestra – Rocket 69 | Buy Me
Tagged 50s, 60s, dirty songs, hollywood hotel, mashed potato, photos, rock n roll, soul, surry hills, xxx
Hollywood Hotel was actually a perfect venue for this. Though it has a rather awkward dance floor, the place was filled with folks dancing around the small pub in Surry Hills.
Owned by former TV and Movie star of the 1950s, Doris Goddard, Hollywood Hotel seemed an appropriate setting for our Rock N Roll and Soul night. At the last one, Ms Goddard sat at the end of the bar for the early part of the night. Her only complaint, that we were a little loud. High praises from a woman who has been known to pull the power on DJs she disapproves of.
So we are doing another one of these before Sonny and Emma leave to Europe. Expect good music, lots of dancing, attractive hipster girls in rockabilly attire, and I promise Sonny won’t be doing any inappropriate scratching.
Listen: Dion & The Belmonts – Runaround Sue | Buy Me
Listen: Elvis – Crawfish | Buy Me
Listen: The Contours – Do You Love Me | Buy Me
Download: Los Apson – Satisfaccion (Spanish Satisfaction Cover)
More Rock n Roll: Here is our post about the last Mashed Potato
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I never get booked to play this old rock n roll and soul. I have a heap of it, but the only way you get to play it out is putting on your own parties. So I am doing just that. Teaming up with Dear Pluto and Sonny Syah, this is bound to have you shaking a tail feather into the wee hours of the morning. You know it is going to be a party.
Download: The Temptations – Ain’t Too Proud To Beg | Buy Me
Download: James Ray – I Got My Mind Set On You
Download: Harry Belafonte – Jump In The Line (Shake, Shake Senora) | Buy Me
Download: The Beatle-Ettes – Only Seventeen | Buy Me
Download: Billy Lee Riley – Red Hot | Buy Me
Download: Vernon Green & The Medallions – Don’t Shoot Baby | Buy me
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