Excerpt - page 114: "... is often rainy on Planet Pop, characters need a striking coat as they walk down rain-soaked boulevards of misery. Leonard Cohen 'Famous Blue Raincoat': MartyRobbins 'A WhiteSportCoat (And A Pink Carnation)': ..."
Excerpt - page 337: "... "Just Walking in the Rain" for Johnnie Ray, "A WhiteSportCoat" for MartyRobbins, and "Moonlight Gambler" for Frankie Laine, all million-sellers. By 1956. ..."
Excerpt - page 231: "... listening to Johnny Cash's "Ballad of a Teenage Queen" and MartyRobbins's "A WhiteSportCoat (and a Pink Carnation)." But, unlike Robbins, we didn't even ..."