Welcome back to the ongoing journey through my dusty CD collection. For any younger readers, a compact disc is a piece of plastic that contains up to 20 songs and, get this, you need a special player to listen to it. Truth be told, I haven’t inserted a disc into my Toshiba combination CD/DVD/video cassette machine for months and months.
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My new podcast…Jerry Lee Lewis recording Great Balls of Fire and getting into a heated, alcohol-fueled debate over the religious implications of the song. Singing it would be a sin, says The Killer! Research material includes the prose of the great musical journalist, Nick Tosches. https://www.amazon.ca/Hellfire-Jerry-Lee-Lewis-Story/dp/0802135668/ref=sr_1_8?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1519408839&sr=1-8&keywords=nick+tosches

Hey, if you missed last night’s show on 97.7 the Beach, you can stream all three segments right here. The playlist alternates between Chuck’s originals and cover tunes by the Beatles, Stones and more….plus a few interview clips with the legend we lost a week ago. Segment One Chuck Berry–Maybellene Linda Ronstadt–Back in the U.S.A. Chuck–No Particular Place to Go
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“There is laid in the very nature of carnal men, a foundation for the torments of hell. There are those corrupt principles, in reigning power in them, and in full possession of them, that are seeds of hell fire.” While that probably could have been written about Donald J. Trump, it’s from a 1741 sermon by British Colonial theologian Jonathan
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