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| From | Greg Cagle <greg@glcagle.com> |
| Subject | Re: Most Annoying Song Ever |
| Date | Wed, 08 Oct 2008 09:38:01 -0700 |
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Stewart Mason wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: <bucholtzc@aol.com>>
Two good things about this song:
1. Written by an admittedly chemically-altered Jimmy Webb
2. My dad, who was an AM disk jockey, said it was great whenever
the on-air personality had to make a bathroom run (which may have
accounted for the amount of airplay it received).
Four more good things:
1. It was originally supposed to be the climax of a side-long
oratorio of songs that Webb wrote for the Association, which would
have been a remarkably over the top artifact if, sadly, they hadn't
turned it down
2. The Negro Problem's great mid-90s cover
3. Dave Thomas' even better SCTV skit where he played Richard Harris
on Mel's Rock Pile
4. Harris gets the name of the park wrong EVERY SINGLE TIME he sings
it! Much like the Book of Revelation and Mary Hopkin, there's no S!
Maynard Ferguson's big band version on M. F. Horn.
- Greg
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