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Behind the Scenes: Huey Meaux's bathtub sound

Joe Nick Patoski, Rolling Stone, 13 July 1978

HOUSTON — "Y'SEE, the Big Bopper needed a flip side to 'The Witch Doctor Meets the Flying Purple People Eater', so he wrote this tune while he was ridin' over here from Beaumont. Hell, it was nuttin' but his disc-jockey rap we used to hear every day on the radio."

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