WORDS BY B LEE COOPERAND JACK WATKINS
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During the 1950s and early 1960s, Brooklyn-born Otis Blackwell was a prolific writer of R&B and rock’n’roll songs.Although he recorded several of his own tunes, including Daddy Rollin’ Stoneand Back Trail, his legacy rests on the numbers he wrote for the likes of Elvis Presley, Dee Clark and Jerry Lee Lewis.