Back in the day, who'd a thunk?

Maybe because the advent of this song was as notable as aliens landing in Central Park. Consider that the three cousins - Evangelist and commercial affection connoisseur Jimmy Swaggart, Rock and Roll founding father Jerry Lee Lewis and Urban Cowboy movement icon Mickey Gilley - came from the Mississippi Delta fields of Ferriday-Vidalia, Louisiana and were not influenced by cosmopolitan diversity and classical music training.

The strange brew that led to Rock and Roll had bits of black juke joint blues, country church Gospel singing, country picking virtuosity heard on WSM and the fertile longings and imaginations of hot blooded boys itching to get out of the dirt farm wasteland and into something, maybe anything.

Thinking that this was the pop music of the 50's is analogous to thinking of letters as the internet of the 1800's. Kinda functions that way, but predates the paradigm.

I'm always a little amused that
Jerry Lee Lewis,
Mickey Gilley
Jimmy (Lee) Swaggart are cousins!

Last man standing.

Unfortunately I fail to see why people like this song.  It's not particularly catchy.  The lyrics are as banal as modern pop.  There's nothing notable in the performance.

I guess this was the pop music of the 50's, but I don't feel it holds up in any way today, or is otherwise worth remembering.