Tired of singin' Kumbuya Part Deux

[Russ T Chambers]

While we've sunk this low, is there a Doctor Demento web page somewhere?

http://www.drdemento.com/

[Book Miser]

Thanks. Found it on my own, actually. (Who could MISS it?)

I copied today's play list to the Cracked Christmas Carol thread, since it seemed more apropos there.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Fish heads, fish heads
Rollypolly fish heads
Fish heads, Fish heads,
Eat them up, Yum!


Gads, Dr. Demento, how low have we fallen?



AnnieLee

[Old Top]

Miss Annie,

You been hanging around with that Curly fellow, be careful it could warp your personality, or the space time continuium.

Old Top

[J.W.Neely]

Cape Cod girls ain't got no combs  heave away, haul away

They comb their hair with codfish bones heave away, haul away

Chorus
Heave away my bully, bully boys, heave away, haul away

Heave away my bully, bully boys,

And were bound for South Australia

cont.....

[J.W.Neely]

Cape Cod doctors ain't got no pills, heave away, haul; away

They feed their patients codfish gills, heave away,

[J.W.Neely]

Cape Cod cats ain't got no tails, heave away, haul away

They all blew off in Cape Cod gales, heave away

[J.W.Neely]

Cape Cod women don't bake no pies, heave away , haul away

They feed their babies on codfish eyes, heave away,

[J.W.Neely]

[Curley Cole]

So, Old Top, are you implying something??? That I could possibly be a corrupitn influence, if so, well I guess I have to represent that remark.....

Dr. D. Next thing you know we will be sinking to a rendition of "Moose Turd Pie".

Does ANYone remember the words to that one?  Unfortunatly I don't so Help us out here..
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[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

"That was a real steamer!"

I'm not going to post the lyrics for this one, I'm going to give you a link to the actual song!

http://www.utahphillips.org/utah.html




AnnieLee

[Curley Cole]

"groan...."
thanks for the link. I had an old pard that loved that "tune". will have to send it up to him...

That was another of those "really obscure" tunes that are obscure probably for a reason.....but then some fool like me has to go and resuract them. (pardon the typos today...I am not myself, and neither am I.......)
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[Book Miser]

I hadn't heard that U. Utah Phillips story before. ...but it's good.   

[Curley Cole]

When you travel in the "circles" I have been travelin' you pick up some strange ones, glad someone enjoyed it....

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[Book Miser]

I used to hear U. Utah on radio now and then, back when I made an effort to listen to folk-music shows. Unfortunately, there are few such programs in the Baltimore/Washington area, and over the last decade they've also become bully-pulpits for certain political views that I don't share. 

Once upon a time, I hosted a folkie program on WBJC-FM, the NPR affiliate here in Baltimore. I also had the pleasure, for a year or so, of hosting a weekly live broadcast that featured Ola Belle Reed and her family. Alas, this was over 30 years ago...

[Curley Cole]

how cool is that?
I sorta miss the "folk music period"
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[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Perhaps I was an innocent, then, but I liked it when folk music was music and not political.


AnnieLee

[Book Miser]

I miss it too, in a way.

Like many of my contemporaries, I tried to play folk music. I was awful on guitar, not much better on banjo. I think I coulda been an OK mandolin player, but could never afford a decent instrument. I'd played trumpet all through public school, and after a long lapse, picked it up again at the age of 35. That was 22 years ago, and I'm still honking the horn. Just got back from playing a Christmas-music concert at a shopping mall.

But AnnieLee it was ALWAYS political. The Original Folkie was Woody Guthrie, and he was pretty political.

The biggest problem for me with folk music was that most of the players I knew were also hop-heads. As was I for a year or two. Had one close call with the law, and that was the end of THAT, along with those particular friendships. In the years since, I've noticed that the folkie crowd has drifted towards the far left of the political spectrum. Or perhaps I have moved rightward. After all, Pete Seeger was always an agitator, and we considered him a minor deity back then.

[Joyce (AnnieLee)]

Different perspectives, Book. For a young adult in college, or entering the Vietnam war, aye, it was about politics. But for a kid who still rode her bicycle around town, her hair in a ponytail, wearing flipflops and not yet in a training bra, it was the music.

Those of us who were at the end of the baby boomer generation are still called "boomers", but we weren't at the colleges, protesting, we weren't dying in Southeast Asia. We didn't grow up to become corporate executives, or disenchanted minstrels. Some of us protested what our government was doing in the War, then realized we still loved our country and served.
We aren't Generation X'ers, so we don't have the gothic background with tatoos and piercings, and it's not really ok if we don't care.

But we remember the music. We remember being outraged when James Taylor married Carly Simon, when he belonged with Carole King. We remember Joan Baez turning her back on Bobby for going electric, then taking him back into her heart. We teethed to "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," then necked to Led Zepplin IV. We have crooned with Joni, laughed with Arlo, wept with Don McClean, rocked with the Dead and Black Sabbath, and Mick Jagger always had big lips.

We don't really identify with Kumbaya, but we can sing it with the best of them. And we still feel like singing. Sometimes, it is just about the music.

AnnieLee

[Four-Eyed Buck]

Hey, Book! How's about a duet! Have had a few horns in my time. Best ones were a Bach Stradivarious and my current Yamaha. Lip needs some work though. hopefully I've still got enough wind left( This from a member of the Krappy Gang yet!). Can't march and play anymore though..............Buck