@100 In 1961 Bobby Robinson, owner of Fire and Fury records in New York heard a New Orleans artist who sounded to him like Ray Charles. He flew down to New Orleans, found the artist at home, but with no material. Then he heard children singing on the porch swing: "Sittin' on the la la, yeah, yeah," and it stuck in his mind. He drove the artist uptown to a bar, where they worked out the lyrics "Sittin' here la la, waitin' for my ya ya" in 15 minutes over beers. The next day they sang it into a tape recorder and got Harold Battiste to arrange the tune. The song was called "Ya Ya." Who was the artist?
\*Lee Dorsey
\Bobby Marchan
\Earl King
\Snooks Eaglin
^Lee Dorsey. It reached no. 7 on the charts that year with over a million sales.
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@101 In 1960 James Booker made a recording for Duke and Peacock records that became a minor success at no. 43 on the charts. He called it "Gonzo" after the name of a drug dealer character in the movie The Pusher. What was unusual about this recording?
\*It was an organ instrumental
\It used synthesizer overdubs
\It has Harry Connick, Jr. playing drums in the background
\It was recorded while Booker was on parole
^It was an organ instrumental. Booker was a fine organist, and was the first to introduce pop organ to Bourbon Street in the mid-1950s.
