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American Bandstand 

This was our first performance on AB. (Check out that refrigerator-sized camera four feet from my face). No one played live on AB; we had to lip sinc. This was more than a decade before Milli Vanilli was falsely credited with inventing lip-syncing. I admit that today's lip-syncers are much better than we were. Now they have to get half naked and twerk on a trapeze while blowing giant flames out of their tattooed butts. Who doesn't know how to do that?

After the show, Peggy and I spent about an hour…

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How My Mom Invented Rap Music With A Fly Swatter 

My mom invented rap music back in the 50s. She used to spank me, (often) with a fly swatter. Now, this wasn't just any fly swatter, it was a 1950s model Magnum. It had a thick, wrapped-wire handle and the swatting part was a 6 . 4 inch metal screen with red trim around it. It weighed about a pound. (Everything was sturdy and built to last back then). You could kill large rats with that thing. Getting whipped with it was like sticking your naked butt in a No. 2 washtub filled with boiling molasses.

When…

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