Song Of The Day 10/17/2015: Gene Vincent – “Hold Me, Hug Me, Rock Me”
Gene’s biggest hit was, of course, “Be-Bop-a-Lula,” which Rolling Stone called the 103rd greatest song of all time back in 2011. (No. 104: “Hot Stuff” by Donna Summer!) I respond incrementally more to 1957’s “Hold Me, Hug Me, Rock Me," as it maintains the mantra-like minimalism but cranks up the tempo a bit. Our songwriting aims were much simpler then, and much easier to remember. Sometimes they didn’t even write them down. Sometimes they didn’t even have to think them. They just knocked some scrap metal around and broke for lunch. I miss those simpler times.
Thanks, Scott! Thus ends the fourth edition of You Pick The Artist. I don’t know whether there’ll be a fifth. There’s a lot of things I don’t know. I suppose if you protest enough I’ll reconsider it in the spring. There’s a lot of things I’m going to be reconsidering in the spring.