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By Providence Journal Arts Writer Rick Massimo

Song of the Day, Lux Interior Memorial Edition

11:46 AM Thu, Feb 05, 2009 |
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The singer of The Cramps was 60 (the linked story is wrong).

If you ever heard them, you were never the same. Here's one relatively tame example:

"Ultra Twist," The Cramps

But for my money The Cramps hit their quintessence with the Napa State Mental Hospital show in 1978:

This was less than a year after Elvis died. Sometimes it helps to remember that.

RIP.

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