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Bud Brewster
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 Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2022 2:04 pm Post subject: Do you think music is no laughing matter? Well, think again! |
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Are you feelin' low, brother? Down in the dumps, maybe?
Well, your troubles are over, my friend!_
Doctor Bud has the cure for what ails ya’. You're just a few mouse clicks away from laughing so hard you'll blow snot bubbles!
Let's kick things off with a song by Reverend Ray Stevens wnich will have you shoutin' Amen . . . with big gin!
___ Ray Stevens – The Mississippi Squirrel Revival
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Weird Al Yankovic shows us the humorous side of Star Wars!
________________"Weird Al" Yankovic – Yoda
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It’s 168 days uhtil Christmas, but this next song is a present we can open early!
_________ Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer
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The wonders of modern technology are explored by Ray Stevens in a song about our miraculous adhesives! 
_______________ Stuck On You – Ray Stevens
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These next two are famous instrumentals . . . but performed in a novel manner.
___Dueling Tubas – from “Deliverance” . . . sort of
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In the Mood by Glen Miller . . . performed by chickens
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Ray Stevens has enough “chicken” sounds in this next one to make it a suitabloe follow-up to the previous one. 
_____________________ I Used To Be Crazy
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The audio versions of the next two clever videos were popular on the radio in the 1980s.
_____Wet Dream - Kip Addotta (aka The Fish Song)
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____________________ The Pretty Little Dolly
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(Here's a much louder recording which makes it easier to hear the clever lyrics, even though it doesn’t include the Carson show appearance.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-LgRFYJZu4&t=3s
Jim Stafford does a masterful job of telling the story about a strange bit of vegetation.
___________The Wildwood Weed – Jim Stafford
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(Again, here's a much louder recording which makes it easier to hear the clever lyrics.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REQ1YqYLi4g
The next video is a very amusing song, accompanied by great artwork from the comic strip!
___________ Alley Oop - The Hollywood Argyles
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Wanna become a rock star? Here’s the "How To" instructions which will lead you to fame and fortune! 
___________The All American Boy - Bill Parsons
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The video below is the perfect companion piece for the one above.
_________________ Ray Stevens - "Gitarzan"
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People don’t normally associate Johnny Cash with funny “novelty tunes”, but this one shows just how amusing The Man in Black can be! 
____________ A Boy Named Sue – Johnny Cash
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This next one isn’t funny . . . it's creepy . . . in a funny way. So, I threw it in here anyway.
_______________ Swamp Witch - Jim Stafford
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Here’s three amusing songs which are all about . . . well . . . people driving too damn fast!
Commander Cody And His Lost Planet Airmen – Hot Rod Lincoln
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The Day I Tried To Teach Charlene Mackenzie How To Drive
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__ Beep Beep: The Little Nash Ramber - The Playmates
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Here’s a song which asks an important question we’ve all pondered. 
_______ Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavor?
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Jim Stafford tells a romantic tale about a gal from the Bayou.
___________ Jim Stafford - Spiders and Snakes
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Connie Stevens lends her sexy voice to Edward “Kookie” Byrnes' efforts, a teen idol from the 1950s who could NOT sing!
Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb! - Edd Byrnes and Connie Stevens
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You'll have to listen to this one until the very end before you realize that Jim Stafford has played a joke on you just by omitting . . . a comma!
_________________ Jim Stafford - My Girl Bill
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Edward "Kookie" Byrnes made no attempt to sing in this next hit record — but it made the Top 40 in spite of that! (Or BECAUSE of it . . . )
___Like, I Love You ~ Edd "Kookie" Byrnes (1959)
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This next video isn’t a song, it’s an excerpt from Hee Haw, but Archie Campbell released it on an album, and I heard the routine on Top 40 radio several times!
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___ Hee Haw - Archie Campbell's Rindercella Story
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A TRIPLE BONUS FEATURE!
Here's the original version of Big John before somebody forced Jimmy Dean to change the closing lyrics from " . . . one HELL of a man . . . " to the lame version, “ . . . a big, big man . . . “. 
Below that video are two SEQUELS to the hit song, which few people (including me) even knew about!
___Jimmy Dean - Big BAD John" (Original Version)
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Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John pt.2 - The Cajun Queen
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Jimmy Dean - Big BAD John pt 3 - Little Bitty Big John
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Bud Brewster
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Here's the ultimate "feel good" novelty song from the 1950s, with a unique gimmick.
Buzz Clifford took recordings of some adorable "baby babble" and intermixed them with his clever song about a toddler who loves to sing along with rock 'n roll on the radio and the record player!
I grin like a daddy whose wife just had a baby whenever I hear this musical gem.
___________ Buzz Clifford - Baby Sittin' Boogie
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There's been several Country songs with amusing themes, like the ones below.
______ There Ain't Nothin' Wrong With the Radio
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The guitar lead-in alone of this this foot-tappin' hit by Alan Jackson puts me in the mood for a good old trucker's bar with a saw dust floor and a waitress in Daisy Duke shorts.
_________ Where I Come From - Alan Jackson
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scotpens
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 12:49 am Post subject: Re: Do you think music is no laughing matter? Well, think ag |
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| Bud Brewster wrote: | People don’t normally associate Johnny Cash with funny “novelty tunes”, but this one shows just how amusing The Man in Black can be!
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"A Boy Named Sue" was written by the great humorist/cartoonist/playwright/songwriter Shel Silverstein, much of whose work appeared in Playboy magazine in the 1960s.
| Bud Brewster wrote: | You'll have to listen to this one until the very end before you realize that Jim Stafford has played a joke on you just by omitting . . . a comma!
_________________ Jim Stafford - My Girl Bill
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That reminds me of the 1982 hit song "Come On Eileen" by Dexy's Midnight Runners. The title should have a comma after the word "on." Without the comma, it has a completely different meaning!
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Here's the original version of Big John before somebody forced Jimmy Dean to change the closing lyrics from " . . . one HELL of a man . . . " to the lame version, “ . . . a big, big man . . . “.
___Jimmy Dean - Big BAD John" (Original Version)
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I've heard both versions played on the radio. Frankly, in this case, I think the "censored" version works better. The wordplay on the literal and figurative meaning of "big" lends the last line an extra poignancy.
And speaking of humorous novelty songs, here's a Ray Stevens classic that's delightfully politically incorrect -- and still as funny as it was in 1962!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNigDOHz4j0 |
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Bud Brewster
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| Posted: Thu Jul 28, 2022 10:51 am Post subject: Re: Do you think music is no laughing matter? Well, think ag |
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| scotpens wrote: | | I've heard both versions played on the radio. Frankly, in this case, I think the "censored" version works better. The wordplay on the literal and figurative meaning of "big" lends the last line an extra poignancy.[/size] |
Sorry, Scot. I can't agree. Here's why.
When the song was first released, "hell" was consider a "cuss word". In fact, this was the only song I know of during that time which used the word in such a prominent way.
Wikipedia says, "The last line was changed to 'lies a big, big man' to replace what was considered profane language."
So, it was ballsy of Jimmy Dean to end his stirring ballad with "At the bottom of this mine lies one HELL of a man!"
Using a weak adjective twice (even if you emphasize it the second time) does not make it as strong as a bonafide cuss word.
Substituting "a big, BIG man" was an attempt to make a weak adjective sound as ballsy as "a hell of a man". (In other words, it cuts off "Big John's" balls . . .  )
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scotpens
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We'll just have to agree to disagree, then. "One hell of a man" may have sounded strong at a time when one didn't normally hear "curse words" on the radio, but "a big, BIG man" is much more subtle. The use of the double meaning of "big" -- i.e., literal (he was a physically big man) and figurative (he was big-hearted, selfless, willing to sacrifice his own life to save others) pushes the lyrics into poetry.
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Bud Brewster
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| scotpens wrote: | "One hell of a man" may have sounded strong at a time when one didn't normally hear "curse words" on the radio, but "a big, BIG man" is much more subtle.
The use of the double meaning of "big" -- i.e., literal (he was a physically big man) and figurative (he was big-hearted, selfless, willing to sacrifice his own life to save others) pushes the lyrics into poetry. |
Hmmm. . . let me ponder this a moment.
You like "big, big man" better for the inscription on the marble plaque in front of the mine because it would be more subtle, and it reminded people that John was both tall and kind hearted. And of course, it's poetic.
Gee, I guess I've got a different image of those rough, tough miners who wanted to thank their dead co-worker for saving their asses. People like this guy.
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Naturally I'm just joshin' with ya, Scot!
And by the way, down south we call 'em "cuss words". Not "curse words".
The first phrase is what manly men say in coal mines. The second phrase is what witches, wizards, and voodoo priests use.
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