learn The Big Apple

Make it hot. Wiggle. Loosen up sister. If kids were roaming the streets today doing this, they would be teaching you how to twerk. Ugh.

Friday morning dose of 1967

The Move perform I Can Hear the Grass Grow on French tv.

Polk Salad Annie

Take your pick from several renditions of the 1969 hit by Tony Joe White. Polk salad, properly spelled "poke," is American pokeweed, a poisonous plant that needs to be boiled, rinsed, then boiled again before sautéing it in a skillet with bacon fat. A "poke" is a small bag or sack. Sock a little polk salad to me. Chomp, chomp, chomp.

• live on Swedish tv, 1969 
• with Johnny Cash
• live on British tv, 1970

Tina Britt

Dusty Springfield covers Britt's 1965 tune The Real Thing.

beautiful harmonies

The Everly Brothers perform live on The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show in 1961. Check out the go-go version of Ford's Sixteen Tons.