According to the documentary History of Rock ‘n’ Roll, King had no intention of recording the song himself. King had written it for the Drifters, who passed on recording it. After the “Spanish Harlem” recording session in 1960, King had some studio time left over. The session’s producers, Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, asked if he had any more songs. King played it on the piano for them. They liked it and called the studio musicians back in to record it.
He is best known for writing the Millennium trilogy of crime novels, which were published posthumously, starting in 2005, after the author died suddenly of a heart attack. The trilogy was adapted as four motion pictures in Sweden and the U.S. (for the first book only).
Ep. 121 – Dental Nipple Clips
Ep. 120 – The Quick and the Dead
Ep. 119 – Let's Get Stinko
Ep. 118 – The Goldilocks of Office Life
Ep. 117 – Celestial, but also Practical and Useful
Ep. 116 – Two Fish with One Worm
Ep. 115 – Overwhelming Insidious Lack of Control
Ep. 114 – A Web of Spiders
Ep. 113 – He slapped him with a black snake
Ep. 112 – Elemeno, my dear Watson
Ep. 111 – Writ Large on the Tablets of Time
Ep. 110 – Plan B Better Be Better
Ep. 109 – Double Trunked Tree
Ep. 108 – Time is a Sequence of Atoms...and Eves
Ep. 107 – Square Cavage
Ep. 106 – Clack – Clack – Clack
Ep. 105 – Dead Squirrel Brine
Ep. 104 – Synoptic Truck Rest
Ep. 103 – The Corner Cracked Off
Ep. 102 – The Epitome of Frivolity
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