(Highest Chart Position: Number One!)
“1,2,3 o’clock, 4 o’clock rock”: the cry of youthful rebellion apparently. Or the cry of a kinda chubby guy with a stupid looking curl right in the middle of the forehead whose only goal in life was to get wholesome kids to do wholesome things on the dancefloor. The man and his band were simple people who just wanted to make super happy fun party music for people to dance to. They weren’t looking for any trouble. They weren’t looking to start a revolution. This can be seen by two facts:
(1) They named themselves after a three-centuries old astronomer. These rock’n’rollers had clearly been paying attention in school. All those years before.
(2) They use the word “glad rags” in the first verse. I mean, who, even in 1955, used the word “glad rags”? The phrase was already about a decade out of fashion, as can be demonstrated by the graph HERE! Interesting graph. It would appear that the phrase is actually more popular now than in 1955... who would have thought.
(Is there anything that Google does not know?)
And yet, pretty much by accident, the song changed the world.
Amazing.
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