I’m not sure which one I had, but it knocked me on my ass the last few days. New Orleans ivory tickler Huey Smith scraped the bottom of the charts with his self-penned tune in 1957.
It’s since been covered by everybody from Jerry Lee Lewis to Aerosmith to the Grateful Dead, but most successfully by Johnny Rivers who, backed by the Wrecking Crew, took it into the Top 10 in 1972, with Larry Knechtel providing a honky-tonk piano part that one-ups the original.
