Sixty Minute Man

Album: Sixty Minute Man (1951)
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  • Sixty-minute man, sixty-minute man
    Look a here girls I'm telling you now
    They call me "Lovin' Dan"
    I rock 'em, roll 'em all night long
    I'm a sixty-minute man
    If you don't believe I'm all that I say
    Come up and take my hand
    When I let you go you'll cry "Oh yes"
    "He's a sixty-minute man".
    There'll be 15 minutes of kissing
    Then you'll holler "Please don't stop" (Don't stop !)
    There'll be 15 minutes of teasing
    And 15 minutes of squeezing
    And 15 minutes of blowing my top........ Writer/s: ROSE MARKS, WILLIAM E WARD
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
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Comments: 5

  • Tony Arioli from Coast GhostI would nominate this recording as the second Rock 'n' Roll song (chart date wise criteria), the first being "Rocket 88" by Jackie Brenston and His Delta Cats from one month before (May 1951).
  • Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn June 3rd 1973, Clarence Carter covered version of "Sixty Minute Man" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #97; it spent eight weeks on the chart, peaking at #65...
    The original version was recorded by the Dominoes in 1951; and on June 30th of that year it peaked at #1 (for 14 non-consecutive weeks) on Billboard's Best Selling R&B chart (on the Pop chart it reached #17)...
    The B-side of Carter's 1973 version was another covered song, "Mother-In-Law"; which Ernie K-Doe took to #1 on the Top 100 in 1961...
    Mr. Carter celebrated his 78th birthday four months ago on January 14th, 2014.
  • Stefanie from Rock Hill, ScEven though I got tired of this song when I first heard it, I did come around to liking the Dominoes' version. You can read my previous comment on this page for that story.

    @Tedfrom AZ: I can see how this would be a candidate for earliest rock song.
  • Stefanie from Rock Hill, ScThis is one of the first songs I remember hearing and thinking "They sang about that back then?" It was played in a wedding which had a band instead of a dj, and I seem to remember it being played a bunch; I got sick of it quickly.
  • Ted from Phoenix, AzThis song gets my vote for earliest rock and roll record. Yes, there were some good recordings before it ("Saturday Night Fish Fry,"), but none had either the guitar or drum sound of this record. And rock 'n' roll was originally a slang word for sexual intercourse, so the lyrics are right on target.
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