tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post111535157405343860..comments2024-02-21T12:11:32.886-05:00Comments on Bats Left/Throws Right: I Just Woke Up From A 45-Year Coma. So What's New?James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1115407277196973452005-05-06T15:21:00.000-04:002005-05-06T15:21:00.000-04:00Jeez, my high school marching band's signature son...Jeez, my high school marching band's signature song was "Tequila". What would they make of that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1115403910097908222005-05-06T14:25:00.000-04:002005-05-06T14:25:00.000-04:00I'm not surprised you know him, judging from some ...I'm not surprised you know him, judging from some of the artists on your Friday Unified shuffle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1115400719414764512005-05-06T13:31:00.000-04:002005-05-06T13:31:00.000-04:00I know of Todd Snyder, btw. The story said specif...I know of Todd Snyder, btw. The story said specifically that it was just an instrumental version.<BR/><BR/>A couple additional points. First, it is the Hoosier state which has the proud distinction of having actually banned the Kingsmen's version for a brief time. Second, IIRC, in the original recorded version the lyrics are intelligible. But by the mid-60s, when my garage band learned it in James Briggs Stratton "Doghouse" Rileyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05378802364709433791noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1115397399475420312005-05-06T12:36:00.000-04:002005-05-06T12:36:00.000-04:00here's the link:http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics...here's the link:<BR/><BR/>http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/snider-todd/ballad-of-the-kingsmen-13872.html<BR/><BR/>sorry if i break the comments. if you go there, check out the lyrics to "Conservative Christian, Right Wing, Republican, Straight, White, American Males" too.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1115396696039226122005-05-06T12:24:00.000-04:002005-05-06T12:24:00.000-04:00First of all, was the marching band going to sing ...First of all, was the marching band going to sing the lyrics? If not, where's the problem? <BR/><BR/>Second, if you've never heqard it, you should listen to the song "The Ballad of the Kingsmen" by Todd Snyder (who is an effin awesome songwriter, btw.) It talks about how everyone went crazy when this song came out because they thought the lyrics might possibly be suggestive (even though no one Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1115393115633298812005-05-06T11:25:00.000-04:002005-05-06T11:25:00.000-04:00I for one applaud the superintendent for thwarting...I for one applaud the superintendent for thwarting the advance of suspicious unintelligibility as pushed by the dulcet tones of The Sandpipers on their iniquitous <I>Guantanamera</I>. Criminetly, they were naughty in TWO languages! Would that we were all so vigilant!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11211639.post-1115391880934981372005-05-06T11:04:00.000-04:002005-05-06T11:04:00.000-04:00I posit that that Superintendent be sent for immed...I posit that that Superintendent be sent for immediate drug testing. Cause only someone smashed out of their mind or stoned to the gills can actually make the lyrics to that song intelligble.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com