The Swingin' Shepherd Plays For Teens

A hearty "howdy" to all you teens who read this blog, or as you-all say, a "shout up", I KNOW there are veritable dozens of you out there, give or take a score, today's HEP PLATTER is for YOU! What could possibly be more in tune with today's teen than a flute-playing Canadian who plays swingin' dance versions of such cutting edge (OUCH!) numbers as Darktown Strutters Ball and (gulp, must take a Xanax before listening, you know all about my "Saints" phobia? SAINTS ALERT!) When the Saints Go Marching In? Plus, he wrote a bunch of new songs that are sure to resonate with the acne-inflicted, namely "Swingin' Shepherd Blues Twist", "Twist the Hully Gully", and "Twist That Thing" (I did, and it's still throbbing).

Is anyone else terrified of this babe on the front cover, with her painted-on black light dress and matching lip-smear? I'm going to put on this album and frenetically hully gully myself into an amnesic state in the hopes that her image disappears from my mind's eye. 

 

Darktown Strutter's Ball

Koff, koff