Johnny Carroll
Essential Classics, Vol. 362
(Essential Classics)
Johnny's beneath-strobes paroxyms came as close to grand mal epilepsy without requiring Dilantin as anyone's in the 1950s. His frantic spectacle, locks flying and acoustic manhandled, was documented in 1957 drive-in carousal Rock Baby Rock It. His Hot Rocks band shared his urgency and untethered madly dashing racket that provoked teens to gymnastic abandonment. In the 1970s, Johnny joined fellow groundbreakers Ray Campi and Charlie Feathers at Ronny Weiser's Rollin' Rock.
Recommended, disc one: "Rock Baby, Rock It," "Hot Rock," "Crazy Crazy Lovin'," "Wild Wild Women," "Trudy," "That's the Way I Love"
Recommended: disc two: "The Swing," "Hearts of Stone," "You Two-Timed Me One Time Too Often," "Sexy Ways," "Crazy Little Mamma," "Why Cry"
Video: "Crazy Crazy Lovin'" (from Rock Baby, Rock It.)
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