Maybelline

Wedding by Colour: One of the first thing I figured out after we got engaged is what kind of ride we were going to have. I had a black 64 cadillac named Maybellene awhile back. She purred like a kitten. Its also where I got my name. Maybellene is a Chuck Berry song about a girl with a Cadi who drives too fast and won’t be true.

Dailypress.com : Car songs are practically a genre unto themselves within rock and roll music. To narrow the field a bit, we’re leaving out car songs that aren’t really about cars but about, ahem, something else (such as “Little Red Corvette” and “Baby You Can Drive My Car”), and we’re limiting it to one song per artist, since certain performers (such as the Beach Boys and Bruce Springsteen) are rather known for their car songs.

Kristy’s Marty Robbins Page : In 1955, Marty earned his third top ten with That’s All Right Mama, originally recorded by Elvis Presley. His fourth came in the same year when Marty recorded the Chuck Berry hit Maybelline.

FrankIfield.com : The third #1 single ‘Wayward Wind’ did battle with a new band that I had just given a break to as support act on my one-night-stand touring show – The band was the The Beatles, who up to then had only worked in Liverpool.

pop.nu : This was the Standells last album. It is arguably their best album ever, despite it’s schizoid nature. The tracks were taken from various recording sessions, and there isn’t a consistant sound throughout the album

The History of Rock’n Roll : Rather than being set back by the cover (of “The Twist”) Ballard and the Midnighters benefited. By the middle of 1960, they had three simultaneous hits in the pop top 40: “Finger Poppin’ Time”, “Let’s Go, Let’s Go, Let’s Go”, and their original version of “The Twist.” And Ballard came up with other dance-oriented hits for the group, including “The Hoochie Coochie Coo”, “The Continental Walk”, “The Float”, and “The Switch-A-Roo”, but chart action dried up after 1961 and group members began to defect.

Blues Music Now! : Rogers and his wife, Dorothy, bought a clothing store on Chicago’s west side and made a decent living until the business burned in the riots precipitated by the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968. The disaster sent Rogers back on the road as a musician, including an extended stay in Europe, where his music was well received.

Danny & The Juniors : At that time, record companies were engaged in a frenzied search for young people who could perform the new music. It wasn’t very long before they discovered the youths, re-named them Danny & The Juniors and recorded them singing one of their own original songs called At The Hop.