The Night the Pacemaker Was Born
Take B delivers a driving, slapback-soaked garage rock tempo that mirrors the rapid ticks of Bakken's prototype.
The stories behind The Night the Pacemaker Was Born
- Rockabilly Twang Meets Garage Bench Innovation — Take B delivers a driving, slapback-soaked garage rock tempo that mirrors the rapid ticks of Bakken's prototype.
- When the Grid Failed and Wearable Pacing Began — How an infamous 1957 Minneapolis blackout inspired the creation of the battery-powered external pacemaker.
Lyrics
Minneapolis,
Minnesota Halloween night, 1957
City went dark
And the pacemaker was born
Halloween in the power line
Blue, black dog Transformer cut the city in two
Up at the heart hospital on the university floor
The wall plug pacemakers couldn't tick no more
Dr. Lily Hayworth as the children lost the race
Said we need a machine that don't need a wall place
He caught a girl back in his garage in the snow
Fill me a battery ticker that will never let go
Tick tock, rockabilly, make the heart go
Curled back and took a transistor, a metronome show
Popular retentions in his right hand
The greatest little biomed in all the land
Nine volts of power, clicked in the strap
Hearing that cardiac pacemaker snap
Go!
Go!
Go!
Girl, grab the transistor from his garage
Put together a circuit that was neat
And picturesque Powered by a mercury cell
Small as an apple pie
Children could walk in the hospital
And look at the
Unplugged from the wall, socket free from the wire
Medtronic was born in that electric fire
One month from the blackout, the prototype ran
Changing the destiny of every motor man
Tick -tock, rockabilly, make the heart go
Back into the transistor,
made to know Show popular electronics in his right hand
The greatest little bio made in all the land
Nine volts of power clicked in the strap
Hearing that cardiac pace, make a snap, go.
Oh, go.
Break from the wall, outlet.
Walk on home, little buddy.
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