Klarinet Archive - Posting 000322.txt from 1998/05

From: Lee Hickling <hickling@-----.Net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Re: klarinet Digest 6 May 1998 20:15:01 -0000 Issue 40
Date: Thu, 7 May 1998 14:20:27 -0400

Brent Eresman <beresman@-----.com> wrote:

>"Put a Watermelon on my Grave and Let the Juice Soak Through."
>"Put Your Snout under the Spout where the Gospel Comes Out,"
>I've Got Tears in my Ears from Lyin' on my Back Cryin' over You"
>This stuff is better than all of the instrument jokes! There have to
>be more of these...

There are. After I posted
"He Put In a Bar in the Back of his Car, and He's Driving Himself to Drink"
Ed Lacy sent me
"Every Man Has His Woman, but the Iceman Has His Pick"

By the way, I'm pretty sure that the "Tears in my Ears" title was
"I've Got Tears in my Ears from Lying on my Back in my Bed while I Cry over
You"

I used to play it back in the Fifties when I was a disc jockey on an
upstate New York quarter-kilowatt coffee-pot station (an episode in my past
that I seldom mention). The one about a bar in a car was recorded by Grady
Martin and his Slewfoot Five, a hard-to-categorize little group of the era.
I guess you could call what they did hillbilly slapstick - something like
Homer and Jethro.

I have a book of novelty songs that Elkay Music published a few years ago,
which includes these notable titles:

Does your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight?
When Banana Skins Are Falling, I'll Come Sliding back to You
Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?

And speaking of tears in one's ears (how's that for a conversation
stopper?), and interjecting a little note of high culture into this
repartee, I used to wonder whether the composer of that country classic had
ever read a poem by Edith Sitwell, called Reflection Brought Back from A
Sojourn in Hell. The poem is shorter than the title:

At midnight tears
Run into your ears.

The poem was published years before the record was made.

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