Rita wears a black dress and a string of pearls in the steps of the Rudolphinium in Prague, Czech Republic.
Today’s youtube is Memphis, Tennessee sung by Johnny Rivers. The song was written by songwriter and rock and roller Chuck Berry. Johnny Rivers recording reached #2 on the U.S. charts in 1964.
Johnny Rivers was a popular rock and roll singer who had a string of hot records in the 1960s. He created the “Go-Go sound” which usually featured Go-Go dancers.
Here’s a live performance of Memphis on a television show from the 1960s.
He’s a television performance of Maybelline and Memphis by Johnny Rivers from the 1960s.
A later performance of Memphis by Johnny Rivers.
Here is the original record.
Johnny Rivers: MEMPHIS lyrocs
Long distance information, give me Memphis Tennessee
Help me find a party that tried to get in touch with me
She could not leave a number but I know who placed the call
’cause my uncle took a message and he wrote it on the wall
Help me, information, get in touch with my Marie
She’s the only one who’d call me here from Memphis Tennessee
Her home is on the south side, high upon a ridge
Just a half a mile from the Mississippi bridge
Last time I saw Marie she was wavin’ me goodbye
With “hurry-home” drops on her cheek that trickled from her eye
But we were pulled apart because her mom did not agree
And tore apart our happy home in Memphis Tennessee
Help me, information, more than that I cannot add
Only that I miss her and all the fun we had
Marie is only six years old, information please
Try to put me through to her in Memphis Tennessee
