“The main guy was Louis Jordan. I wanted to sing like Nat Cole, with lyrics like Louis Jordan, with the swing of Bennie Goodman with Charlie Christian on guitar, playing Carl Hogan’s riffs, with the soul of Muddy Waters.” – Chuck Berry

Hoover’s FBI attempted to censor country singer Merle Travis’ subversive worker’s rights song “Sixteen Tons” off the radio — it instead became the fastest-selling single in Capitol Records’ history.

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