The result was a thick-as-molasses lover’s lament, “This Should Go On Forever”, a triplet blues that crossed color lines without detection due to a booming baritone saxophone and a voice that oozed sincerity. After many hours of practice in his room, at school, and while cruising in his car, he decided he could sing as well as his heroes and proceeded to prove the point by travelling to Jay Miller’s recording studio in Crowley, Louisiana. The Rod Bernard story began in Opelousas, Louisiana where young Rod fell under the spell of Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, and local boys Frankie Ford and Jimmy Clanton. Yet in all that the time that has passed, that song has stayed with him as he has developed into an explosive stage personality. It has been almost twenty years since Rod Bernard charged onto the pop charts with the million seller “This Should Go On Forever”, which even today ranks as one of the biggest jukebox request records in the South.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |