"Sock It to Me"

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:00 PM -0400 6/16/05, Wilson Gray wrote:
>What I go by is what I think when I first hear a record by a person. I
>blush to admit it, but when I first heard Chuck Berry, I thought that
>he was some white, rock-a-billy stud, an amazing error, considering
>that Chuck and I both grew up in St. Louis, we both lived there at the
>beginning of his career, and he still maintains a home there. I thought
>the same thing about Ray Sharpe, that he was white, despite the fact
>that he was a fellow black native of East Texas. He was a one-hit
>wonder with the rock-a-billy classic, "(They Call My Baby
>Patty?/Betty?, But Her Real Name, Her Real Name Is) Linda Lu."  WRT
>him, I was half-right. Rock-a-billy *was* his bag. He made a modest
>living playing against type, like that black country-singer whose name
>escapes me.

Charley (or maybe Charlie?) Pride

Larry