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Nice looking apes. I like the 13" height. What kind/brand are they?

I'd love to see "See Saw," the other side of this record, posted. And yes, George Katsakis is still playing... as a matter of fact, I am in a band with him!

They're definitely trying for a similar sound to "I've Had It" here. Makes sense... anything to get another hit!

Note that Ray Ceroni played a Harmony Stratotone Jupiter... a very cool guitar with hot DeArmond pickups. His guitar was likely a '58 model, being that the Jupiter was introduced that year and "I've Had It" (from what I gather) was recorded in late '58. Ray was a very decent guitar player, and ...

Actually, it's from 1956, not '57. An all-time classic, nonetheless.

This is my favorite Cleftones record. I knew that it was the great Jimmy Wright on sax, but didn't realize that Kenny Burrell played guitar on this. I'd love to know who the drummer was...

Beautiful car. What you ought to do at a car show sometime is park next to a '57 Chevy, so everyone can see how high-sided and dumpy a Chevy of the same year looks next to the Plymouth's advanced styling. :)

This is a re-recording. It's definitely not the 1956 original.

@recovering16 That would have been Grady Gaines on tenor sax. On this recording, Richard is using the Upsetters, his killer touring band, instead of the usual studio musicians (although they were fantastic, too). That's the great Charles Connor on drums, with his innovative "choo-choo" beat. T...

@DAC19441 Well, obviously, this isn't jazz... it has energy! It's stripped-down, primitive, early rock 'n' roll from 1959. Duane Eddy's guitar riff creates the atmosphere and then the song takes off with incredible sax work by the great Steve Douglas. Rock sax doesn't get any better than this....

More proof that rock 'n' roll really began in the late '40s.

The original color scheme of Misty Green and Iceberg White is cool. A shame to paint it red and white like all the other '58s are being done. My god, it was just a MOVIE but people pay such homage to it. Sorry, I know it's your car, but I love the '57-'58s and it's disappointing to see them al...

Fantastic!

@roaringwaterbay The original 1959 version is on YouTube as by the Strangers (Joel Hill's first group). The Canned Heat version was a remake.

Charles Sutton is the lead on this song, not Henry Booth (as is often supposed). Hank Ballard wouldn't join the group until after this one was recorded.

This was the very first release on George Goldner's Gee label (Gee 1000), late 1955. The driving sax solo is by the great but unsung Jimmy Wright.

@coyotesong Yes, Nate was from Detroit. He attended Eastern High School and would have graduated with the 1962 class, except he left school early to pursue his career ("Village of Love" had already hit nationally, and he was touring and appearing on American Bandstand). "Village of Love" made t...

The original 1955 hit, with the great Earl Gaines on vocals. The Midnighters' version is good too, but I keep coming back to this one... the real deal.

I had one of these H49s... they're wonderful. The DeArmond pickups kill! Harmony's higher-end guitars like this one were decent, very underrated. Mine was a 1958, the first year they were made (made from '58 to '65).

The musicians behind the Dynamics on this great Detroit record are the Royal Playboys from Dearborn, Michigan. A Motor City classic!

Joel Hill and the Strangers were one of the hardest-rockin' bands of the '50s! Ahead of their time!

Joel Hill -- one of the best rock 'n' roll guitarists of all time and hugely influential on musicians in the early California scene... and later, across the nation and world.

Good version! What year did this come out? Gotta love that it's being played on an AMI G-200 jukebox, one of the best-sounding jukes ever!

@mediattackrecords: Energy and attitude, not technique or overblown "musicianship," are what counts in rock 'n' roll. The Ramones will remain inspirational for decades to come.

Not bad, but the Bo Diddley original (especially the longer album edit) kills this. The beat is better in Bo's version and it's just grittier overall.

The album version runs about 4:20, so the single version was edited down quite a bit. The original intro was truncated and the single omits the guitar solo and one of the verses too. If you like this edit, wait 'til you hear the long version. It's killer.

THIS is what rock 'n' roll is supposed to sound like! Never gets old! There was a lot more going on in the '58-'63 era than people think... fantastic creativity, wild music!