Nervous Norvus


Jimmy Drake was a truck driver who started recording quirky songs as an alternative to working.  His hit 'Transfusion' went to 8 on Billboard in May 1956 and charted for 14 weeks.  It was banned from the airwaves by ABC and NBC.  He recorded more music than I would have thought possible but he only had the one hit, and he was supposedly terminally shy.  I heard the song on Dr. Demento the first time I listened to his program.  Drake drank himself to death in 1968.  It only takes one, and Transfusion kicks ass.  Bon voyage, Nervous!
 

Photo from the Life Magazine article 6-11-56, The Many Mysteries Of Nervous Norvus.



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