Retro Redux: Dave 'Baby' Cortez And His Happy Organ
His instrument always seemed to be in a very good mood. Teenage boys in the 1950s were not that much different from now in at least one respect -- risqué double-entendres usually made us snicker and dig an elbow into our friends' sides. That might have helped explain why a relatively unknown keyboardist named Dave Cortez rocketed to the top of the charts in 1959 with a song called "The...