Fontaine, Eddie
Goodness, It Is...
"I was speeding one night in Long Island and the police stopped me; back then, in New York City, they took you down to the court house. They put me in this holding tank with a bunch of drunks, and I went up to a black guy there and said, "Heyman, whats happening?" and he said "Theres nothin shakin but the leaves on the trees, and they wouldnt be shakin if it wasnt for the breeze.". I wrote that song on a Sunday morning in about fifteen minutes..." Eddie Fontaine is one of those 1950s heroes who sometimes gets forgotten because he was maybe a little too old to have been a teenage idol, and his music was perhaps a little too measured and urbane to be classed as manic rockabilly or wild rock n roll, but it is great music and deserves to be heard.