Tuesday, April 12, 2011

"Potato's in the Paddy Wagon"

"One night mama went to fetch herself a sweet potato fell down the cellar stairs,
Stork dropped in while she was on the floor, so my sister was born down there.
Daddy said this one will be nothing but a misery, never will be worth a damn..
But mama just loved her little sweet potato baby, with a face like a parboiled yam."

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  1. AnonymousApril 13, 2011 at 11:37 AM

    Well they certainly don't write songs like that anymore.....and thank God for it!

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  2. Hazy DaveMay 18, 2011 at 10:41 AM

    That soundtrack CD from "A Mighty Wind" actually works as an enjoyable album of the styles of the "folk scare" years. Though a tolerance for cheesiness is required, of course. (Just like the real thing.) Still, Mitch & Mickey's "When You're Next to Me" is one of my favorite songs of the last decade.

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  3. MeadeMay 21, 2011 at 9:55 PM

    I'm with you on that, Dave. I love cheesiness (in moderation). And "Kiss at the End of the Rainbow" should've won that year for Best Original Song but instead it was that insipid Lord of the Rings song.

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  4. Triangle ManMay 26, 2011 at 11:44 AM

    I was delighted to see the brilliant songwriter Michael McKean on Sesame Street recently. He was playing a heavy metal character called "Vergil Von Vivaldi".

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  5. MeadeJuly 30, 2011 at 1:45 PM

    Triangle Man, thanks for the heads up. I need to DV-R that.

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  6. Hazy DaveAugust 4, 2011 at 10:35 AM

    New York Hot Sweet Potato Cart, 1942.

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  7. MeadeAugust 8, 2011 at 1:41 PM

    Beautiful, Dave! Thanks.

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