Klarinet Archive - Posting 000242.txt from 1998/05

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] The Gang's All Here
Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 13:09:58 -0400

>First Benny sang it is a straight, up-tempo tune. A stupid
>tune to the worst set of lyrics since "Put a Watermelon on my
>Grave and Let the Juice Soak Through."
>
> Paducah, Paducah
> If you want to you can rhyme it with Bazooka
> That city in Kentucky
> Where you can feel lucky
> Etc. ad disgustingitis

Some of the kids on this list must be thinking "WHAT the hell are these old
farts talking about?????????":-)

Those ARE pretty bad lyrics, but there were worse from roughly the same
period. Years ago, George C. Scott went on The Mike Douglas Show and
recited the lyrics to songs that supposedly were soooooooooo much more
intelligent than the "trash" that was in vogue in the late 1960s. You had
to hear Scott intone like Dylan Thomas...

Three bitty fishes in an itty bitty poo'

...to know how absolutely stupid some songs could be even in the glory days
of the swing era.

I grew up in a house with lots of old 78s, some of which were salacious
party records....

She has freckles on her butt, she is nice,
And when she's in my arms it's Paradise....

...or songs that were simply racist, like Peggy Lee (THE Peggy Lee) singing
"Manana" in this phone Spanish accent that made her sound like Speedy
Gonzales.

Ken

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