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Olby Auditions for Footloose: Calls Blueberry Hill “Hard Rock Anthem”
David Horowitz's NewsReal Blog ^ | December 14, 2010 | David Forsmark

Posted on 12/15/2010 4:18:29 AM PST by Walter Scott Hudson

In 40-some years of sitting in Baptist services, including the height of the anything-with-a-beat-is-of-the-devil era, I have actually heard preachers refer to the Fats Domino classic, Blueberry Hill. They expounded, mostly, on the innuendo of what “found my thrill” really meant…

However, not one, not one of them– even those who claimed the Beatles couldn’t sing, it was just primal screaming– referred to Blueberry Hill as “hard rock.”

Leave that to Keith Olbermann. Oh, and by the way, nobody has used the term “hard rock” in about a decade…Fittingly, this bit of musical critique came in Olbermann’s “Oddball” segment, in which he played a genuinely funny and bizarre clip of Vladimir Putin doing his best to promote a new Domino Theory:

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TOPICS: Humor; Music/Entertainment; Politics; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: blueberryhill; fatsdomino; keitholbermann
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