jls3 wrote:
> Timothy by The Buoys. Dig in:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGNdvKvbxYQ
> 
> By the way, while we're on the topic (well, I am anyway), there's an 
> excellent new book out about the Donner Party called Desperate Passage, 
> by Ethan Rarick.


We've discussed Timothy several times past, last in 2005.
The highlight from '05:

Eytan Mirsky wrote:
 > Evidently, Rupert Holmes hoped it would get banned. He had a friend,
 > an engineer for Scepter Records, Michael Wright, who found the Buoys.
 > Rupert and his friend (Michael Wright) got a deal whereby Scepter
 > would release one song they put together, but they knew it would not
 > be promoted properly. So Rupert decided to make the most of the
 > opportunity by getting the maximum attention from the song through
 > its controversial cannibalism lyrics.

  - mc