Artist: Dominoes
Author: Rose Marks/Billy Ward
Label: Federal
Year: 1951

In days before they became Billy Ward & The Dominoes. Vocal: not Clyde McPhatter but their bass player Bill Brown. What's a sixty minute man? According to The Dominoes he's doing it with an hourglass: first 15 minutes of kissin', then 15 minutes of teasin', 15 minutes of squeezin' and finally blowin' his top for 15 minutes. Risky blues, n°1 R&B and in spite of being banned on the radio, a pop hit too. Risky blues - by definition - hits hand in hand with a babyboom era. Wasn't even a single child: follow-ups soon followed: Can't Do Sixty No More and Don't Stop Dan, Dan being the original sixty minute man (see footnote).

Lovin' Dan, head character in Sixty Minute Man, must be a direct descendent of the Dan Tucker's or Jim Dandy's in 19th century minstrel shows. Then there's also The Lady's Man, Dapper Dan From Dixieland, a song from 1921. Two years later The Black Dominoes cut a Dancin' Dan Foxtrot. Bessie Smith had her Hustin' Dan and Georgia White her Dan The Backdoor Man. Not to mention the Dapper Dan brylcream brand in O Brother, Where Art Thou.