Although the apple didn't fall far from the tree, the son of rock and roll didn't flourish as well as the dad of rock and roll. Jonathan "Rocky" Burnette was the son of legend Johnny Burnette, the 60's powerhouse who gave us 'You're Sixteen', 'Dreamin'', 'Little Boy Sad' etc.etc.
Rocky followed his father's musical journey and in the late 70's early 80's when R&R and rockabilly began a bit of an upsurge he released this album, with 'Tired of Toein' the Line' being the stand-out single. I bought this album on the strength of that one song and as it turned out, that's about it. In fairness though it wasn't all Rocky's fault. He had an unimaginable string of bad breaks with his record releases.
EMI ran out of money to promote any follow up singles and his next album fell by the wayside. After touring with his Dad's 'Rock and Roll Trio' he and the band did an album for Enigma which basically bombed and they were dropped. Even as late as 1996 he was still trying but when he released his album 'Tear It Up' Core, the record label, went belly-up in bankruptcy.
He's still out there somewhere, but apart from this album his main claim to fame is making the list of 1980 One-Hit Wonders.
The "official" music video has to rank up there with one of the cheesiest ever made. This is not it !!
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