What......? Where is "Tiptoe through the tulips" sung by Tiny Tim.....?
Posted on 08/05/2005 8:50:42 AM PDT by nuconvert
Not true...We just had the BEST Rock n Roll..
I've been chewing on my answer in #42 and would like to revise it. I like both the Schubert and the Gounod so much, it is next to impossible to say which I prefer. The one I love the most is the one that's playing :-)
I laughed out loud when I saw your post. Perfect.
Yeah, once upon a time you dressed so fine . . . .
Uhhhhhhh, sorry to disagree, old boy, but while Memphis certainly had the rough and raw feel that people call "real soul music" and was undeniably good stuff, Motown had James Jamerson on bass.....a far superior bass player to Duck Dunn, IMHO, though I DO like Duck Dunn....I would love to have heard Sam & Dave with the Funk Brothers backing them.....
ping.
Ha! Boomers didn't even invent rock 'n' roll. Where were you in 1954 when Bill Haley and his Comets were "Rockin' around the Clock?" Actually, his "Crazy, Man, Crazy" was the first R&R to hit Billboard's top 20, and "Shake, Rattle and Roll" was the first to top one million sales. All this and much much more before any Boomers made it out of grade school.
>I'll vote for Ave Maria.
Maybe, but if one looks at the historical ramifications of the Reformation, I think "A Mighty Fortress is our God" edges it out.
/sarcasm
More influential, quite possibly. For beauty, not even close. (Granted, this midi stinks :-) )
Let's give a nod to Sir Arthur Sullivan for "Onward Christian Soldiers." We could use a little more of that in these days of jihadist bombings.
Dylan Bump!
Neighborhood Bully ~ Bob Dylan~
Well, the neighborhood bully, he's just one man,
His enemies say he's on their land.
They got him outnumbered about a million to one,
He got no place to escape to, no place to run.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully just lives to survive,
He's criticized and condemned for being alive.
He's not supposed to fight back, he's supposed to have thick skin,
He's supposed to lay down and die when his door is kicked in.
He's the neighborhood bully.
The neighborhood bully been driven out of every land,
He's wandered the earth an exiled man.
Seen his family scattered, his people hounded and torn,
He's always on trial for just being born.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he knocked out a lynch mob, he was criticized,
Old women condemned him, said he should apologize.
Then he destroyed a bomb factory, nobody was glad.
The bombs were meant for him.
He was supposed to feel bad.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, the chances are against it and the odds are slim
That he'll live by the rules that the world makes for him,
'Cause there's a noose at his neck and a gun at his back
And a license to kill him is given out to every maniac.
He's the neighborhood bully.
He got no allies to really speak of.
What he gets he must pay for, he don't get it out of love.
He buys obsolete weapons and he won't be denied
But no one sends flesh and blood to fight by his side.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Well, he's surrounded by pacifists who all want peace,
They pray for it nightly that the bloodshed must cease.
Now, they wouldn't hurt a fly.
To hurt one they would weep.
They lay and they wait for this bully to fall asleep.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Every empire that's enslaved him is gone,
Egypt and Rome, even the great Babylon.
He's made a garden of paradise in the desert sand,
In bed with nobody, under no one's command.
He's the neighborhood bully.
Now his holiest books have been trampled upon,
No contract he signed was worth what it was written on.
He took the crumbs of the world and he turned it into wealth,
Took sickness and disease and he turned it into health.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What's anybody indebted to him for?
Nothin', they say.
He just likes to cause war.
Pride and prejudice and superstition indeed,
They wait for this bully like a dog waits to feed.
He's the neighborhood bully.
What has he done to wear so many scars?
Does he change the course of rivers?
Does he pollute the moon and stars?
Neighborhood bully, standing on the hill,
Running out the clock, time standing still,
Neighborhood bully.
What......? Where is "Tiptoe through the tulips" sung by Tiny Tim.....?
No, but it sounds like something from Dr. Demento's playlist. However, I'm familiar with "The Song of the Swamp," also known as "Chloe," which was a hit in 1928, as well as Wayne King's scary "Swamp Ghosts" from 1931. "I'm a Lonely Little Petunia In an Onion Patch" (and all I do is cry all day) by Two Ton Baker (1948) is another weird one.
Holy smokes! You remember Two Ton Baker? ... You must be from Chicago or the near area. Remember Captain Stubby and the Buccaneers?
BTW, Dick Baker (no relation to Two Ton) began the site because of the similarity in names. I remember e-mailing him (nice guy) awhile back before the twotonbaker.com got off the ground and he was good-natured about the whole thing. The Two Ton part was first part of his (Dick Baker's) home page, and then he got the domain name.
Anyhoo, both of 'em, Two Ton and the Cap'n, have CD compilations .. easy to Google, etc. The Cap'n just passed away last year, but from what I hear, until a a few months or so before he died, he was still active in small music venues in Indiana, and he also answered e-mails! 'Tis a pity I never took the opportunity to tell him how he entertained me when I was a kid.
Now, Spike Jones ...
Anyway, 'nuff of this .... I'm going to practice my gitarlet. ;)
Now if I could find reruns of Chuck Bill's Adventure Theater ...
My God...I'm choking up just thinking of it...someone give me a tissue!!!
I am LOL! I never understood the song, and perhaps I am now glad I didn't.
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