Little Sister

Here's a bit of rock and roll written by Doc Pomus, lyricist, and Mort Shuman, songwriter. Elvis Presley released this song as a double A-side along with "(Marie's the Name) His Latest Flame".

Van Credenza now interpret this number which deals with a young man who is baffled by women.




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Jungle Rock

When William M. Mizell wrote a persistent jungle blues item which he thought would make good swingin' dance fare it was all about the jungle denizens doing the rock with a good sound and rhythm.

However, we suspect that the narrative in this tale is pure fiction. Accepting there may have been a jungle drummer, it’s certainly unlikely that a chimpanzee or any sort of monkey would be able to dance anything resembling the Suzie Q, which is a famous rock n roll dance step. A fox is expected to grab a rabbit at any opportunity, but again, the ‘bunny’ is more likely to be killed and eaten than given the prospect of a dance. A camel jitter buggin’? While achievable, yet again, this is stretching the bounds of plausibility.
Yet William M. Mizell, renaming himself ‘Hank’ then joined the church as a preacher man. A man of the cloth, but, it appears, a stranger to the truth.

as the sun still burns away

Ten Years After are sometimes illustrated as a ‘hard rock’ band, but this number was relatively easy to play.

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That band got their name as they were formed a full decade after the ten day 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Two of the members of 10YA were massive Ferencváros fans.

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To the song: allegedly Alvin Lee wrote “As the Sun Still Burns Away” not about the star at the centre of our solar system, but about the newspaper of, at that time, several years standing, which had published lurid details of the band’s partying habits. They wanted no-one to know: Ssssh.

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“As the Sun Still Burns Away” is drawn from their 1970 album Cricklewood Green. Ferencváros play in green, hence the second part of the album name. The first, Cricklewood, is taken from the area in London from whence the band purportedly got their supplies.

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In tribute to 10YA, Van Credenza is releasing a vinyl copy of this song, one side playing at 45rpm, the other at 78.

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