

The midnight ramble.
The songs would get a little bit juicier and the jokes’d get a little funnier. And the prettiest dancer would really get down and shake it a few times.
A lot of the rock-and-roll duck walks and steps and moves came from a lot of that. Everybody did it, and so, when you would see Elvis Presley, or Jerry Lee Lewis, or Chuck Berry, or Bo Diddley really shaking it up, it didn’t come out of nowhere, it didn’t come out of the air.
It was like the local entertainment everybody was going to see. So when they exposed it to the rest of the world, it was like this unknown beast that had come out, the grotesque of music that the devil had sent, you know?
Levon Helm, The Last Waltz.My continuing blog on Canada.com. Today I discuss Sabrmetrics, and which stats you really ought to pay attention to while analyzing baseball.
Here are my two new baseball articles for Canada.com.
Position players & Pitching staff.
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