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Posted on 11/21/2012 3:23:00 PM PST by virgil283
This mule train bit by Jerry Van Dyke is hilarious,classic comedy that never gets old. It was said He once did this on Johnny Carson and Carson was on the floor. Jerry Van Dyke said he'd been doing that routine since an amateur show when he was 17.
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Thanks Virg. It was a nice laugh.
Have a very happy Thanksgivings Day, Virgil.
Bump!
I saw Jerry do this at a casino lounge many years ago....my sides hurt for a week. Jerry Van Dyke, Tim Conway and Johnny Carson all put me in the aisle.
self-ping for later viewing...
Isn’t there an older video out there of Jerry doing Mule Train?
I remember seeing one many years ago.
Good stuff ... too bad Jerry Van Dyke was never on the Dean Martin Roasts (if he was I missed it)
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Oh, but the young [bleeping] comics today are so much [bleeping] funnier! They've got routines about [bleep] and bits about [bleep] and sometimes they even talk about [bleep]. It's [bleeping] hilarious. The old-style [bleeping] comics never did [bleeping] stuff like that.
The Vaughn Monroe version of “Mule Train” was the first record that I ever bought. I remermber the clerk asking, “Small hole or big?”
“first record that I ever bought.”...Ha. Did they give the plastic insert that allowed the 45RPM to play on the turntable?...My first record was ‘Washington Square’. Folk music was to be the next greatest thing...as I said HA!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAwqhnqSAc
"Mention modern art, civil rights or folk music, you're in like Flynn"
Introduce me to that big blonde
She's got a touch of Tuesday Weld
She's wearing Ambush and a French twist
She's got us wild and she can tell
She loves to limbo, that much is clear
She's got the right dynamics for the new frontier
Well I can't wait 'til I move to the city
'Til I finally make up my mind
To learn design and study overseas
Have you got a steady boyfriend
Cause honey I've been watching you
I hear you're mad about Brubeck
I like your eyes, I like him too
He's an artist, a pioneer
We've got to have some music on the new frontier
Well I can't wait 'til I move to the city
'Til I finally make up my mind
To learn design and study overseas
Let's pretend that it's the real thing
And stay together all night long
And when I really get to know you
We'll open up the doors and climb into the dawn
Confess your passion your secret fear
Prepare to meet the challenge of the new frontier
---Donald Fagen, "The New Frontier"
Nope, no little plastic disc. Wouldn’t have helped anyway as my record player, like many others of the day, was 78RPM only....hence the “big hole or small” question.
45 and multi-speed players were just starting to come out, so record companies pressed both 78 and 45 RPM versions of songs for a time.
PS....my kid sister broke that record. :(
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