Only three days left till we reach the end of the month and the alphabet.
There were a few other songs I had considered for two of my letters, but decided against including. If you want to know what they are, click here and here. Both were frequently played on Dr. Demento, a syndicated radio show that specialized in playing novelty songs. I don't recall any station near me carrying his show. Did any of you ever get his show?
Also, while searching I remembered this parody of "The 12 Days of Christmas" from Bob and Doug McKenzie on SCTV. (Another favorite on Dr. Demento). I wasn't sure about including this one either, and as you could see, I chose not to. It's also holiday-themed, another reason I chose not to include it, even though I did include the Halloween-themed "Monster Mash." Even so, I got to thinking of other Christmas novelty songs, including one nearly everyone has heard, as well this one from Cheech and Chong, and many "Twisted Christmas" songs from Seattle DJ and parody artist Bob Rivers, whom I just learned passed away on March 11. RIP. Click here to listen to some of his songs. I had some of Rivers's Christmas CDs (still do actually, I just don't know if my player still works). He also did non-holiday parodies, including a recent one called "Elon's Coming." Do a search if you want to hear this one :)
Last month, while I was searching for songs, a blog I read posted another Bob and Doug McKenzie song called "Take Off." I wasn't familiar with this one at first. I wasn't sure about including it as one of my songs, and eventually chose not to.
Some letters, as I may have already said, provided more than one possible choice, too many to mention. This made it a little hard to choose just one.
Tomorrow we resume with X. Please join me then.
5 comments:
Oh, I remember those Bob and Doug McKenzie songs very well. I had the whole album. The McKenzie Brothers were a huge hit in Canada and continue to be popular icons to this day. There's a statue of Bob and Doug McKenzie here in Edmonton near the Oilers' hockey arena.
I remember Dr Demento. I used to enjoy listening to it sometimes. I'm going to go search for Elon's coming. Actually I think I better song would be Elon's going. :) Have a great rest of your weekend.
I have heard of Dr. Demento, but never heard his show.
Love Bob and Ted and I bought my brother their album. Getty from Rush, was on the song Take Off..I can't stand his voice...lol
Yeah, I see why you didn't include the kid loving clown one. Not terrible, but it hits different today than it did then. I don't know if we had a Dr. Demento show, but I'm in the greater Los Angeles area, so we probably did. As a kid, I was too young to know about it and/or search for it.
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