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Effie Smith's lyrics & chords
Biographyby Eugene Chadbourne Live in a house with someone who never gets off the phone? The ideal gift would be to find a copy of the mid-'60s Jubilee disc Dial That Telephone, in which this ace '50s rhythm & blues and doo-wop veteran chatters and testifies up a storm in the process of lampooning heavy telephone yakkers, complete with funky blues grooves for a backing track. The album was part of a series of novelty releases on Jubilee that were known as "adult listening," although by the standards of 21st century rap, this material by Rusty ...read more