As you may or may not know, Lux Interior, charismatic lead singer of rockabilly giants The Cramps passed away this Wednesday, February 4, 2009 of an existing heart condition. He was 62. As a tribute to a great man who will be greatly missed, I tried my best to emulate what Interior himself had done with his own Purple Knif Show, aping the horror host style and playing the bands that influenced him. Without The Cramps, I never would've heard of many of these enjoyable tracks. Here's to you, Lux.
Scream or Explode
The Cramps - Creature From the Black Leather Lagoon
Carl Perkins - Her Love Rubbed Off
Jack Scott - The Way I Walk
The Trashmen - Surfin' Bird
Hasil Adkins - She Said
Station Break - Ronnie Cells Continentals - Chicken
Dwight Pullen - Sunglasses After Dark
The Riptides - Machine Gun
Warren Smith - Uranium Rock
Wanda Jackson - Fujiyama Mama
Elvis - Do the Clam
The Groupies - Primitive
Clint Miller - Bertha Lou
The Frantics - Werewolf
Station Break - The Swanks - Ghost Train
Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels - Devil With the Blue Dress On
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - Ju Ju Hand
The Sonics - Strychnine
Ronnie Cook and the Gaylads - Goo Goo Muck
Jim Lowe - The Green Door
The Cramps - Surfin' Dead
Ricky Nelson - Lonesome Town
Bonus Video!
The Cramps - Bikini Girls With Machine Guns (sorry about the crappy video quality; but I think you get the idea)
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