Cold calls are hard work, the strike rate, calling on people out of the blue (even when based on some research), is low.

But creepily enough, from '30s delta bluesman Robert Johnson's beating-until-satisfied Me and Devil Blues to Jackie Gleason's 1954 One Of These Days — Pow! to Dion's face-slapping 1962 Little Diane to Lou Reed exclaiming you better hit her in There She Goes Again to the Intruders chasing girls and beating 'em up in their 1968 beach-soul hit Cowboys to Girls to the wifebeating has been around for 10,000 years headline fronting Guns N' Roses Lies, those in favor seem more prevalent.

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too difficult for nonspecialists