Pop Argot's mom celebrates her birthday today! In her honor, I've reached back all the way to 1960, when she was something of a 45s collector. I was 3 or 4 in the mid '70s when I figured out how to work her record player, and "Shimmy, Shimmy, Ko-Ko-Bop," a near-novelty record from the usually hyperdramatic Little Anthony and the Imperials, was the first of her 45s I gravitated to. (Followed soon after by the Miracles' "You've Really Got a Hold on Me," and then by ... um, "Convoy.") It's a little silly, but finely sung - and what great modulation!Happy Birthday, Mom.
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I've said it many times: why General Mills didn't turn this song into "Gimme Gimme Cocoa Puffs" is a mystery.
But happy B-Day, Mom Argot!
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