Hey, it's waters from the waters wake-up call.
Thank you for going Looney Tunes day with me this morning.
We were talking novelty records That can't be right.
Oh, that makes much more sense Do you know where Jim Henson got that?
I talk about this every time we talk about novelty tunes from kind of a soft core movie from like 1969
an Italian movie.
I think it was a love scene in a bathtub.
And the original version of that was playing in the background.
And I don't know why Jim Henson thought, oh, well, you know I should take that and have some muppets sing it.
But he did.
OK.
You'll never hear that song the same again, will you?
No, I won't.
I'll be thinking about the bathtub the whole time.
That's right.
Mm, wing, wing, wing, wing, wing, wing, wing, wing, wing, wing, wing.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
Does Ray Stevens the street qualifying?
Absolutely.
Those were the days when I was streaking.
I was just a young child.
Yeah, me too.
Yeah, there's that small window in everybody's life where it's okay to be streaking when you're just a little kid and you're running out in the street naked because you think it's funny and if you do that when you're like in your 20s and 30s, then they'll be coming to take you away, haha, but that's another novelty
song.
that too.
Okay.
But we graduated from basic training in Fort Dick's, New Jersey.
And the guys were drinking and saying, you know, hey, somebody will go streaking through the bar for a couple of hundred bucks.
Nobody can do it, but the bar called Deluxe.
Somebody did come straight.
I came through to the bar.
Who was it?
I'll
never
tell.
Because there you were with your fort.
I can't say the full name of the fort because with this story it becomes dirty.
I'm not saying nothing.
I know you're not.
I'm implying some things though.
Hi, this is Sherry from Maynard.
Well Sherry from Maynard, how are you?
I'm doing okay today.
Good.
You could have talked about Looney Tunes.
Yeah, yeah, you got
one.
We have talked about Looney Tunes.
How many novelty tunes has he recorded in his in his long illustrious career?
I have no idea.
I don't know if he even knows.
My two favorites are I Love Rocky Road and another one rides the bus.
Yeah, another one rides the bus.
That was one of his first.
Yes.
I think his very first one was My Balona.
Yeah.
Yeah,
Dr. Demento.
Yeah, you got to start on Dr. Demento who started off so many novelty acts and
songs.
Yeah, but those are my two favorites.
I love Mocky Road and another one Rides a Bus.
Another one Rides a Bus.
The very annoying accordion accompaniment will just drive you
crazy.
Does that qualify?
Well, it's a commercial jingle, so no.
No, it doesn't.
Okay, I would like to give a shout out to either one or two.
That would either be monsters or people like Trucker Todd.
What do you mean like monsters?
Like in the monster mass?
Gotcha.
Yeah,
those are fine novelty tunes right there.
Well, I got the con, don't I?
Yes, you
do.
Yeah,
I'd say that was a novelty
tune.
She
did.
She just passed away, I think, last week.
And I got that.
My mom used to hate that
song.
That high-pitched voice she gets to.
And, you know, for 13-year-old girls who couldn't afford going to a mall kiosk, they'd wait for that song to come on the radio, and Melanie's voice would pierce their ears for free.
Oh, really?
One of them, you and I, should like a lot, because it was kind of used as a reference to our favorite football
team.
Yeah, who shall remain nameless this time of year?
Why
didn't I think of that?
Yeah, Tarkington back in the 70s.
About the Vikings?
Oh, that's the song.
I'm sure they're down south somewhere enjoying those
right now.
Probably.
You know, if we combined those two songs, we'd get, oh, let me do the math here.
That's always hard.
Teeny-weeny, purple polka dot bikini.
Then it's all Vikings related.
Sounds good.
Purple polka dot bikini eaters.
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