a record shop which would become world-famous in Doo-Wop circles. The shop, located in Watts, Los Angeles, on the corner of Vernon and Central, featured a deejay by the name of Dick Hugg, nicknamed "Huggie Boy." He played records such as "Gee" by The Crows, "You're The One” by The Spiders, "Shake a Hand" by Faye Adams, and "Money Honey" by Clyde McPhatter. Rock and Roll In 1955, when Rock & Roll began, he went back to Poplar Bluff where people immediately started ridiculing him due to his love for black music. He decided to move to St. Louis, Missouri, where he worked bars and night clubs including a stint at The Bamboo Key Club in East St. Louis, Illinois, where Ike Turner was the house band. His next stop was The Bar X in Calumet City, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago notorious for gangster activity. He worked from 8 at night until 5 or 6 in the morning playing backup for strippers and singing blues tunes he made up as he went along. The place was more hectic than East St. Louis, and after a few months he moved back to Southeast Missouri where he started playing a variety of jobs in jazz trios, country bands and rock & roll bands. In July 1956, while playing a gig at the El Morocco Club in Gideon, Missouri, he met a local singer by the name of Narvel Felts who had started to build himself a reputation as an Elvis-type rocker. This meeting turned out to be the start of a lifelong friendship. In the fall of 1956 they ended up in the same band when Jerry Mercer, leader of the band for which Felts sang, fired drummer Bob Taylor and Felts recommended Lucas for the job. In 1959, he met up with Narvel Felts again when he was asked to audition for a new trio that Narvel was about to form after the breakup of his "Narvel Felts and The Rockets" band. His experience in drumming in a wide variety of musical styles landed him the job and he started in 1960 as the drummer for the Narvel Felts Trio, which also featured J.W. Grubbs on stand-up bass and Narvel Felts on lead guitar. The Narvel Felts Trio played across the Missouri/Arkansas/Illinois area from real dives like the Starlight in Lepanto, Arkansas, to honky-tonks in Missouri and strip joints in