JOHNNY TILLOTSON - “Poetry In Motion”
(14th January 1961)
With the help of a sax as cheeky as himself, Tillotson gives a trifling song the big sell, and I buy it. How does it work? The teasy intro and chipper tune; Tillotson’s piping voice and the way he sings “mo-shun!”; the way he balances a little lust with a lot of real fondness and an aw-shucks glee at the female form. 6

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Joe Williams on August 29th, 2005
This makes me think of ‘Back To The Future’, as it’s the kind of thing that would be performed by the loser band before Marty turns up and invents Chuck Berry. Awful.
newjerseybt on March 13th, 2007
A “tease” in 1961… a ho-hum today….good for a nostalgic moral benchmark.
endy on December 10th, 2007
In reference to the version of the song on youTube at http://youtube.com/watch?v=PPM5khluZWE - I like the sax and I also feel that the piano keys in the background (don’t know what that kind of piano work in the background is called) which I think does a lot for the song.
rosie on July 27th, 2008
It reminds me of Robert Herrick!
Next, when I cast mine eyes and see
That brave vibration each way free
O how that glittering taketh me!