Otis Blackwell

Makes some wonderful records with those crickets.

Otis Blackwell, music publisher.

And he's been around this business for a long time.

Hello, everybody.

This song was not written by James Taylor.

This was originally written by Jimmy Jones and Otis Blackwell.

It was like this doo-woppy R&B single from 1959.

Then it was covered by Del Shannon in 1964.

Spend your money waiting on the number nine.

Now, this was written by David Hess, who was the one who first recorded Otis Blackwell's All Shook Up.

And he also wrote I Got Stung in Sandcastles, which we talked about earlier in the show.

But also for horror fans, he was the main villain, the main creep in Wes Craven's Last House on the Left.

Oh, my ding-a-ling.

Now, Bon Scott paid tribute to another suggestive classic on this one, Great Balls of Fire, written by Otis Blackwell and Jack Hammer, that was of course made famous by The Killer, Jerry Lee Lewis.

Good-looking women with balls of fire.

I said look-