Johnny Burnette

but full of energy, you know.

When I heard Charlie Feathers and Johnny Burnette and the Rock 'n' Roll Trio, and a whole bunch of-

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Ooh.

And that, my friends, was Dreaming by Johnny Burnette from 1960.

That one came in at number 11 Coming in in 1965 at number 25, let me think, 1965 here, Perry Como.

Let's try it.

The Dole Brothers are fantastic.

We had Johnny Burnette on Coral with Sweet Love on My Mind, a nice '56 single.

And then Lee Rocker by suggestion.

There you go, Sean, from 2012 off his Night Train to Memphis disc there, with Buzz Campbell on guitar doing some amazing licks behind him.

And it was exactly what I... what I wanted.

I'd already had a bit of a taste for old rockabilly, like Gene Vincent and Johnny Burnett.

But the Kramps had their own great songs, like Garbage Man and Human Fly.

But then a lot of other songs that they did were covers.

He's like, you want to get up and play one? And I said, yeah.

So I got strapped on his base and, and they counted it in and we played Johnny be good.

And just the power, the power of that.

everybody playing through those big amps.

And I taught myself how to play it.

how to play the upright bass and, uh, learned how to talk myself out of slap by reading just the, like three sentences in a guitar player magazine.

One time that Paul Burleson, they interviewed the guitar player, Paul Burleson, who was in Johnny Burnett and the rock and roll trio.

And they asked him how they got that slap sound.

I looked up the song on Wikipedia and there's literally a section called Controversy.

So the song was first performed by rockabilly singer Johnny Burnette, then it was re-recorded by Ringo Starr, and then most famously, of course, by Meade Skelton.

Uh, it's condemned for sexualizing a teenager.

In 2021, Troy L. Smith of cleveland.com wrote, "In his defense, Ringo Starr did not write You're Sixteen.

His hit is a cover of a Johnny Burnette song.

Of course, that doesn't excuse Starr's judgment as a 33-year-old man releasing a song about a love for a 16-year-old." Uh, someone else wrote, um, they reviewed the song negatively as it relates to musicians courting or having sex with teenagers.

[laughs] They go on to call it a gross song, "And even if it wasn't gross, it's not like it has any real musical merit.