On an even damper than usual Spring afternoon in 1969, three guitar-and-drum-beating sisters from tiny Fremont, New Hampshire entered an even tinier recording studio and emerged, just a few hours later, with a dozen original rock ‘n’ roll songs on some quarter-inch tape. These twelve songs were then pressed onto one thousand vinyl records, nine hundred copies of which immediately vanished forever off the face of the Earth. Within a year however, no less an authority than Frank Zappa declared that this album, prophetically entitled Philosophy Of The World, was “better than the Beatles,” and a decade after that the similarly inclined visionaries in NRBQ re-pressed Philosophy briefly on their own Red Rooster label.
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Gary Pig Gold on THE PHILOSOPHY Of FIFTY YEARS
Posted in Opinion, Review with tags DBAWIS, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Gary Pig Gold, music, NRBQ, Peter Tork, radio, Records, segarini, The Shaggs, Zappa on April 15, 2019 by segariniJAIMIE VERNON – WHERE HAVE ALL THE NOVELTY SONGS GONE?
Posted in Opinion with tags Baha Men., Bing Crosby, Bob Segarini, Chipmunks, CHUM-AM, David Seville, Dickie Goodman, Don't Believe a Word I Say, Garry FERRIER, Jaimie Vernon, Jim Stafford, Loudon Wainwright III, Merv Griffin, music, novelty songs, Patti Page, Rachel Bloom, Radio Free Vestibule, Ray Stevens, Rebecca Black, Sarah Silverman, Shel Silverstein, The Fugs, Tin Pan Alley, Weird Al Yankovic, Wild Man Fischer, Zappa on May 4, 2013 by segariniThis week Frank & Moon Unit Zappa’s novelty hit “Valley Girl” turned 30 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb21lsCQ3EM. For those too young to remember, that’s the 1982 song…not the 1983 movie starring Nicolas “I’m A Coppola So Fuck YOU!” Cage. It’s what we old geezers like to refer to as a novelty song. Novelty songs were, and should still be, tunes reflecting social trends and fads – in the guise of humourous observational commentary, parody or satire.