Back when dogs could talk, Eisenhower was president, Poodle skirts were in and Doo wop groups wandered the earth, there was a group from Allen Park, Michigan who released several records. One of these records was not only a hit, but a transformative event in Rock & Roll.
Several years back I went to a weekly contest attended by a team of former and current broadcasters. I ended up sitting, each week, next to Scott Vertical. It turns out we had worked for the same company and in the same building for many years but had never met. We ended up, not surprisingly, talking about music. In subsequent weeks, I would email Mr. Vertical obscure, but what I felt were excellent, records/songs. Invariably he would say "ya I've got that on my iPod". One week, Mr. Vertical emailed me back and said what a great tune I had just sent him and that he was adding to his play list. That song was by a group called " Tim Tam and the Turn On's".
"Wait a Minute" starts as a Doo wop tune, but quickly turns in to a hard charging rocker. As if by magic, it turns from '50's dreck in to the future of Rock & Roll.
Several years back I went to a weekly contest attended by a team of former and current broadcasters. I ended up sitting, each week, next to Scott Vertical. It turns out we had worked for the same company and in the same building for many years but had never met. We ended up, not surprisingly, talking about music. In subsequent weeks, I would email Mr. Vertical obscure, but what I felt were excellent, records/songs. Invariably he would say "ya I've got that on my iPod". One week, Mr. Vertical emailed me back and said what a great tune I had just sent him and that he was adding to his play list. That song was by a group called " Tim Tam and the Turn On's".
"Wait a Minute" starts as a Doo wop tune, but quickly turns in to a hard charging rocker. As if by magic, it turns from '50's dreck in to the future of Rock & Roll.
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