Klarinet Archive - Posting 000980.txt from 1999/07

From: "Edwin V. Lacy" <el2@-----.edu>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinet Related Topics
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 09:33:40 -0400

On Sun, 25 Jul 1999, Ken Wolman wrote:

> I never heard of any but the first one, and oy vey, do I feel OLD. Mickey
> Katz was one of those guys I grew up on as a Jewish kid in the 1950s Bronx.
> His Hit Songs parodies made what Alan Sherman did a decade later look
> sick by comparison. "Herring Boats are a-comin'" was especially funny
> because shrimp--the original in the song--was about as far from kosher
> as you can get. The parody of "I Wanna Go Where the Wild Goose Goes,"
> set in a kosher slaughterhouse ("Ich wil geht mit die Kotchkeh
> geht!"), the one to the tune of "Sixteen Tons"

Yeah, the parodies would fall on deaf ears for most of the subscribers to
the list. You have to be old enough to remember the originals. "Shrimp
Boats Are A-comin'" - they don't write 'em like that anymore. (Thank
heaven.) ;-)

Ed Lacy
el2@-----.edu

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