NOT sick and tired of Fats Domino or Jerry Miller (Moby Grape)
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Album:50 Greatest Hite
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This is one of my favorite Fats Domino songs ever, about dealing with a no-account girlfriend. Fats even has to brush her teeth for her, and when he comes home she's lying in bed with a rag tied 'round her head. Fats shares the authorship with Dave Bartholomew and Chris Kenner. The song reached #22 on the pop charts in 1958.
The members of Moby Grape, with the exception of drummer Don Stevenson, have all made solo CDs. Jerry Miller, their fabulous guitarist, covered this song on the CD by The Jerry Miller Band called Life Is Like That. That cover will be posted in Comments and is enjoyable as well.
Comments (8)
Not sure what's up with the truncated pic...
WTF?
Wow, the pic spans three comments..kinda cool, like the tune.
Something is hinky with comments. The pic kept getting cut off, so I had to post several comments to render it visible.
Word of the day: "hinky." Can't wait to use it in a sentence.
Hrm. Wonder who inspired Jerry to cover that particular tune...just call me Snarky McSnarksters. Must be time for lunch.
Maybe the girl is suffering from clinical depression
Yeah, he doesn't seem very curious about her. He comes home and she's waiting for him in bed. That's bad?
I like Bartholomew's drummer here. Long ago a NY Times music critic tried to describe how the earliest rock and roll was different from r & b, and used Little Richard's drummer as an example of rock and roll. Little Richard's early hit records had Dave Bartholomew's band as did Fats Domino's, and he said that r & b had three notes to the beat (called "triplets"), whereas Little Richard had two or four notes to the beat (as in his "Lucille"), and that's what "Sick and Tired" has also, as one can hear in the drumming.