Aug 4, 2012

Mel McGonnigle - Rattle Shakin' Mama (1958)





Doesn't matter that the band can barely hang on or that McGonnigle seems to be making it up as he goes along - this one moves. One of the most shambolic early rock and roll songs ever captured on vinyl but it somehow cuts Jerry Lee Lewis at his own game.

McGonnigle, a Boston boy, was 18 when he recorded this stone classic.

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