Hey, George Thorough and the Destroyers made “Move It On Over” (1978) and “Bad to the Bone”, among others. He was a hard-working rocker. I stood about 15 feet away from him at the Birchmere in Alexandria, Va about 4-5 years ago. He was a rockin’ machine and damned good musician.
Interestingly, Thorough and the Destroyers do not show up in “The Billboard Book of top 40 Hits” 7th Edition, (1955-2000), 2000.
I believe that they were copied by the Georgia Satellites in their “Keep Your Hands to Yourself”, 1986.
Now don’t get me wrong. I love Chuck Berry. Have seen him twice, once with Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis at Wolf Trap Park, Vienna, Va.
“Sweet Little 16” was one of the first 45’s I ever bought (first was Elvis’ “JailHouse Rock” and it still have it in good condition as well as the sleeve/jacket (in color).
Just as you “Don’t Mess With Texas”, you don’t mess with us our ‘rock and rollers’ who grew up in the 1950’s and have the 45’s to prove it (I have 1,000+).
Rock and Rock Will Never Die.. It’ll Go Down in History, long after Rap/CRAP and Skittle, Grunge/garage, and psychedelic music are forgotten (OK my wife loves Jimmie Hendrix and Bob Dylan but my ears don’t).
“Hey, George Thorough and the Destroyers made “Move It On Over” (1978) and “Bad to the Bone””
Bad to the Bone is one of the songs they mean.
And Move it on Over is a Hank Williams song from 1947.
Don’t get me wrong, George and the Delaware Destroyers are great.