Rock music didn’t know where it was headed in the late 50s. Jim Lowe’s early goofball classic “The Green Door” shows the things that rock could have become but didn’t. It could have involved breathy male vocals but instead of Elvis’ gutsy delivery. It could have involved wood blocks and jangly piano, instead of Chuck Berry’s guitar. It could have featured self-deprecating songs about being thrown out of the club instead of being its band such as in “At the Hop”. “The Green Door” was a fun song but there isn’t much to show coming behind it.
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