The doctor said, "Big Bill, I think I’ll have to give you monkey glands."

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These comical personifications of preacherly hypocrisy, having endured from the nineteenth century to the dawn of rock 'n' roll, were exiled from Elvis Presley's 1954 recording of "Good Rockin' Tonight." As with the line, "You may get religion, baby," that was expurgated from Presley's 1955 version of Arthur Gunter's 1954 R&B record "Baby Let's Play House," any hint of irreverence toward religion was deemed too controversial for the great mediocrator of rock 'n' roll, Presley, the mediocrator who made of the fine crude bread of real rock 'n' roll a sterile and insipid Wonder Bread for the masses. That was the tradition, more so than the rock 'n' roll tradition, of which Presley truly was born.