Monday, May 2, 2016
Persistent earworm alert XXIII
A rainy morning was all it took for me to recall a tune by The Rainmakers, a band I hadn't heard in years. "Rockin' At The T-Dance" isn't usually played on the radio today, but the shouted "1, 2, 3!" count-in before the guitars start wailing has stayed with me for years. Its repetition helps the tune, I think. Usually, when a band announces a count-in, it's done in the style of The Rascals on "Good Lovin'." The count-in to three--or four, in some songs--primes the listener to listen, sing along, or play air guitar. The Rainmakers take this a step further by making the count-in a recurring part of the song. Although I'm fairly ambivalent about the tune, I'll admit that it sports one of the stronger uses of a count-in.