Marky Ramone's Blitzkrieg

"Keep On Dancing"   10" 45 rpm vinyl

(Guns Of Brixton)

Originally waxed by the Avantis and Gentrys in the early '60s. As one account has it, the songwriters had only a catchy scrap. It was elongated by appending a drum solo and fake-ending fade-out, then simply replaying the scrap. Mr. Ramone and pals repeat the artifice. Picture (with tilted camera view) a top-down Mustang flying down a stretch of summer white-line, or a passel of heedless teens writhing in dance-crazes at ocean's edge. The carbonated anthem gleefully wrought by Marky and his fast-footwork fellows is nonstop good-times lilt and aligns with latter-day reinventions of JFK-era fare like "California Sun" (Dictators), "Seven Day Weekend" (Heartbreakers), and "Party Lights" (Walter Lure).

"Keep On Dancing" shares vinyl space with accellerated readings of "New York, New York," "It's Not Unusual,"and "Octopuses Garden."

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