Did You Know that May 29th is....

[thebes]

... National Silly Lyrics Day, by act of Congress passed after an all night
session in 1957 when the boys were liquored up and just a bit giddy after being
awake for 20 hours.

Congress had inadvertently tapped a country-wide yearning for frivolous, entertaining
music and those carefree record industry barons were soon releasing what the
public sought. Yes this was the era "Purple Pink Polka Dot Bikini"
and to keep with the purple theme, "The One Eyed Flying Purple Easter. Not
to mention Dean Martin's "Pizza Pie". However, the joy could
not last soon the times were a changing, seriousness ruled the realm. Just then, in the midst of an ugly war, some
salvation was at hand when a new breed of silliness came to this troubled land.

Yeah in the dawning a new era, the Yippies and their fellow travelers
brought forth a new sort of oddball fun that captured the hearts of a youthful
generation yearning to, well, have goofy smiles plastered on their faces.

Led by the master himself, Frank Zappa, and their accolates, The Fugs, they
brought forth a sense of happy-go-lucky lyricism that stays with us to this
day.

I believe that it is up to us here at the Klipsch Forum to pay proper homage
to this most neglected of National holidays by posting some truly silly lyrics,
and I'm just the man to start it off.

NRBQ and their international smash hit, "Wacky Tobaccy"

NRBQ - Wacky Tobacky



Wacky tobacky

It made me feel so good

Wacky tobacky

Just like you said it would



Everybody doin' it

Smokin' and a-chewin' it

They shippin' and buzzin' it

And Congress is discussin' it



Oh, listen to me

'Cause I wouldn't tell you no lie



Some folks are tryin' it

But then they're denyin' it

A scientist is testin'

But you might get arrested



Jiminy Cricket

I wouldn't tell you no lie



But now, wacky tobacky

Wacky tobacky



Oh, wacky tobacky

It made me feel so weird

Wacky tobacky

I had to shave my beard



Yeah, the old they're tryin' it

And then they're denyin' it

It's wicked and it's graded

But then it's confiscated



It's crackers to slip a rozzer

Oh, the dropsy in snide



Hey boy, wacky tobacky

Wacky tobacky

I said

Wacky tobacky

Wacky tobacky



Cha cha cha

[The Dude]

thanks for the education, Thebes

[oldmako]

NRBQ indeed!

Let's not forget;

RC Cola and Moon Pie

It was an accident

Hit the Hay

Howard Johnson's got his HoJo Workin......

etc etc etc Long Live NRBQ!

[Islander]

Yes this was the era "Purple Pink Polka Dot Bikini" and to keep with the purple theme, "The One Eyed Flying Purple Easter. Not to mention Dean Martin's "Pizza Pie".

Not to be too picky, but wasn't that song called Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini? It came out in 1960.

And Dean Martin? "When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore!" That's Amore was the name of his 1952 song.

Purple? Watch out for The Purple People Eater! If you're purple, of course... (#1 in 1958)"I said Mr Purple People Eater, what's your line?
He said eating purple people, and it sure is fine
But that's not the reason that I came to land
I wanna get a job in a rock 'n roll band"

Guess that wacky tobacky was really popular.

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Deep Purple tried their hand at silly lyrics on the Fireball album

Anyone's Daughter

(Blackmore/Gillan/Glover/Lord/Paice)

I stood under your bedroom window
Throwing up a brick
No-one came I threw one more
That really did the trick
Your daddy came and banged my head
He said what kind of man
Is this that's hanging round my girl
And threw me in the can
You're a farmer's daughter
You're a farmer's daughter
Why do I always get
The kinda girl I didn't oughta get
I won't get no more eggs and water
Now I've laid the farmer's daughter

Imagine I was a full grown man
And I could talk just right
Could I come and see you here
And do this every night
Wham! the door comes crashing down
Your daddy's face all pale
Says come with me you hairy bum
I'll put you in my jail
You're a judge's daughter
You're a judge's daughter
Why do I always get
The kinda girl I didn't oughta get
Now I'm getting jail and torture
Cos' I made the judge's daughter

It seems they're screaming law and order
When I go with anyone's daughter

Woman I should like some peace
And daddy hold your tongue
I think you're gonna die of fright
When I tell you what I've done
I can hear your tales and lies
You say I'm dumb and scraggy
But man this dumb and scraggy is
Your daughter's baby's daddy
She's a lucky daughter
Such a lucky daughter
Why did I always get
The kinda girl I didn't wanna get
Now I've got what I always fought for
Cos I've married a rich man's daughter

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Classic Silliness with Frank Zappa on the Apostrophe album with St. Alphonso's Pancake Breakfast

St. Alphonzo's Pancake Breakfast lyrics

Yes indeed, here we are!



At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast



Where I stole the mar-juh-reen



An' widdled on the Bingo Cards in lieu of the latrine



I saw a handsome parish lady



Make her entrance like a queen



Why she was totally chenille



And her old man was a Marine



As she abused a sausage pattie



And said why don't you treat me mean?



(Hurt me, hurt me, hurt me, oooooh!)



At Saint Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast



(Hah! Good God! Get off the bus!)



Where I stole the mar-juh-reen . . . 





Saint Alfonzo



Saint Alfonzo



Saint Alfonzo



Saint Alfonzo



Ooo-ooo-WAH . . .

Showing the beautiful classically trained musicianship that goes into such a piece is Ruth Underwood showing Frank's manuscript and explaining the chord structure as it relates to the marimba and classic Zappa song construction.

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Zappa Plays Zappa with Napolean Murphey Brock on lead vocals (although the live version with Frank and band on Roxy and Elsewhere is the Ultimate!)

Cheepnis

ha- Bullets can't stop it, Rockets can't stop it, we may have to use nuclear forze-

check out the all star cast with famous Zappa alums George Duke on synth, Chester Thompson on drums!

Frank zappa (lead guitar, vocals)

George duke (keyboards, synthesizer, vocals)

Tom fowler (bass)

Ruth underwood (percussion)

Jeff simmons (rhythm guitar, vocals)

Don preston (synthesizer)

Bruce fowler (trombone)

Walt fowler (trumpet)

Napoleon murphy brock (tenor saxophone, flute, lead vocals)

Ralph humphrey (drums)

Chester thompson (drums)

Debbie (background vocals)

Lynn (background vocals)

Robert camarena (background vocals)



Intro [spoken by FZ]

Cheepnis.

Let me tell you something, do you like monster movies?

Anybody?





(yeah!)



I love monster movies, I simply adore monster movies, and the cheaper
they are, the better they are. and cheepnis in the case of a monster
movie has nothing to do with the budget of the film, al

H it helps. but true cheepnis is exemplified by visible nylon strings
attached to the jaw of a giant spider. I'll tell you, a good one that I
saw one time, I think the name of the film was &quot

Onquered the world" (yeah!) and the... did you ever see that
one? the monster looks sort of like an inverted ice-cream corn with
teeth around the bottom. it looks like a, like a teepee or a

Of a rounded off pup-tent affair. and ah, it's got fangs on the base of
it, I don't know why but it's a very threatening sight. and then he's
got a frown and, you know, ugly mouth and everythin

D there's this one scene where the ah monster is coming out of a cave.
see? there's always a scene where they come out of a cave, at least
once. and the rest of the cast...it musta been made aro

He 1950's. the lapels are about like th

At wide, the ties are about that wide and about this short, and they
always have a little revolver that they're gonna shoot the monster
with. and there is always a girl who falls down and twists

Ankle. hey hey! of course there is! you know how they are, the weaker
sex and everything, twisting their ankle on behalf of a little
ice-cream corn. well in this particular scene, in this scene

, they ah, they didn't wanna re-take it 'cause it musta been so good
they wanted to keep it, but they... when the monster came out of the
cave, just over on the left hand side of the screen you

Ee about this much two-by-four attached to the bottom of the thing as
the guy is pushing it out, and then obviously off-camera somebody's
goin': "no! get it back!" ...and they drag it

Just a little bit as the guy is goin': "kch! kch!" now that's cheepnis.



Right. and this is cheepnis here: one two three four...



I ate a hot dog

It tasted real good

Then I watched a movie

From hollywood



(repeat)



Little miss muffett on a squat by me

Took a turn around, I said: can y'all see?

The little strings on the giant spider? "

The zipper from the black lagoon?

The vents by the tanks where the bubbles go up?

(and the flaps on the side of the moon)



The jelly & paint on the 40 watt bulb

They use when the slime droozle off

The rumples & the wrinkles in the cardboard rock

And the canvas of the cave is too soft



The suits & the hats & the tie's too wide

And too short for the scientist man

The chemistry lady with the roll-away mind

And the monster just ate japan



Ladies and gentlemen,

The monster,

Which the peasants in this area call frunobulax

(apparently a very large poodle dog)

Has just been seen approaching the power plant

Bullets can't stop it

Rockets can't stop it

We may have to use nuclear force!



Here comes that poodle dog!

Big as a blimp with a rhinestone collar

Snappin' off the trees

Like they was bonsai'd ornaments on a

Dry-wobble landscape

Keep it away! don't let the poodle bite me!

We can't let it reproduce! oh!

Somebody get out the pants!



The national guard has formed up at the base

Of the mountain

And is attempting to lure the enormous poodle

Towards the cave

Where they hope to destroy it with napalm

A thousand of the troopers are now lined up

And are calling to the monster...

Here fido

Here fido

Here fido



Got a great big slimey thing

Got a great big heavy thing

Got a great big poodle thing

Got a great big hairy thing



(repeat)



C'mon! everybody! let's go!

Get the distilled water! get the canned goods!

Get the toilet paper! you know we need it!



Go to da shelter

My baby, my baby,

Go to da shelter

Go to da shelter



(repeat)



Little miss muffett on a squat by me,

Can ya see the little string danglin' down

Makes the legs go wabble an' the mouth flop shut

An' the horrible eye, horrible eye, horrible eye

Go rollin' around

Can y'see it all

Can y'see it from here

Can y'laugh till yer weak on yer knees

If you can't, I'm sorry `cause that's

All I wanna know

I need a little more cheepnis please

Baby, I'm sorry `cause it's all I wanna know

I need a little more cheepnis please

Baby, I'm sorry `cause it's all I wanna know

I need a little more cheepnis please

[thebes]

Zappa is indeed the god of silliness Michael, but the more I listen to NRBQ, the more I think they are not far behind.

Guess the title of this song:

I want my mommy

I want my mommy

I want my mommy

I want my mommy



I want my mommy

I want my mommy

I want my mommy

I want my mom



Can't tie my shoes

I'm getting screwed

Nobody love me

Everybody shove me

Cant keep up

With stupid rules

I wanna go back

to sunday school



I WANT MY MOMMY

I want my mommy

I want my mommy

I want my mommy



I wanna be clothed

I wanna be fed

I want peanut butter

on toaster bread

Don't wanna work

to get ahead

I'll call in sick

Stay home in bed



I want my mommy

I want my mommy

I want my mommy

I want my mommy-

I want my mommy

Look, i want my mommy

I want my mommy

I want my mommy



I

Want

My

Mommy



I

WANT

MY

MOMMY



I

WANT

MY

MOMMY

[fenderbender]

While we are on Zappa, we can't forget:

And now folks it's time for don pardo to deliver our special illinois enema bandit-type announcement take it away, don

"this is a true story

About a famous criminal

From right around chicago

This is the story of michael kenyon

A man who's serving time at this very moment

For the crime of armed robbery

It so happened, that at the time of the robbery

Michael, decided to give his female victims

A little enema

Apparently, there was no law against that

But his name lives on

Michael kenyon

The illinois enema bandit!"

The illinois enema bandit

I heard he's on the loose

I heard he's on the loose

Lord, the pitiful screams

Of all them college-educated women...

Boy, he'd just be tyin' 'em up

(they'd be all bound down!)

Just be pumpin' every one of 'em up with all the bag fulla

The illinois enema bandit juice

He just be pumpin' every one of 'em up with all the bag

Fulla the illinois enema bandit juice

He just be pumpin' every one of 'em up with all the bag

Fulla the illinois enema bandit juice

He just be pumpin' every one of 'em up with all the bag

Fulla the illinois enema bandit juice

The illinois enema bandit

I heard it on the news

I heard it on the news

Bloomington illinois...he has caused some alarm

Just sneakin' around there

From farm to farm

Got a rubberized bag

And a hose on his arm

Lookin' for some rustic co-ed rump

That he just might wanna pump

Lookin' for some rustic co-ed rump

That he just might wanna pump

Lookin' for some rustic co-ed rump

That he just might wanna pump

The illinois enema bandit

One day he'll have to pay

One day he'll have to pay

The police will say, "you're under arrest!"

And the judge would have him for a special guest

The d.a. will order a secret test

And stuff his pudgy little thumbs in the side of his vest

Then they'll put out a call for the jury folks

And the judge would say, "no poo-poo jokes!"

Then they'll drag in the bandit for all to see,

Sayin' "don't nobody have no sympathy...

Hot soap water in the first degree!"

And then the bandit might say, "why is everybody looking' at me? "

Well did you cause this misery?

Well did you cause this kinda misery?

Well did you cause this misery?

Now, one girl shout: "let the bandit be!"

Bandit are you guilty?

Bandit are you guilty? tell me now, what's

Your plea?

Another girl shout: "let the fiend go free!"

Are you guilty? bandit, did you do these deeds?

The bandit say, "it must be just what they all needs..."

"it must be just what they all needs..."

"it must be just what they all needs..."

"it must be just what they all needs..."

"it must be just what they all needs..."

"it must be just what they all needs..."

Etc. repeat

Wanna, wanna, wanna, wanna enema

Enema

Repeat...

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MICHAEL KENYON.....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOeOlcR_CgE

[Fish]

I know it's for lyrics but this fits the silly part,and it's killer retro surf.

[fenderbender]

MICHAEL KENYON.....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WOeOlcR_CgE

Great Find!!!!

[Islander]

I didn't know Frank covered Whippin' Post, but he and the band did a great job with it:

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http://www.break.com/usercontent/2007/9/John-Lennon-Frank-Zappa-RARE-369515.html

Plastic Ono Mothers of Invention, yes that's right- John and Yoko get on stage with Franks band Toronto 1971 to play Baby, 'Please Don't Go' and 'Scumbag'.

Frank announces on John's mic 'This is not standard blues notation'.... 'but it's close'. LOL

Yeah, Zappa's bands were such astonishing musicians that they could play anything.

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starring Ray White, the original Illinois Enema Bandit. Check out the ripping solo and the keyboards totally deconstruct at 6:00 to 7:30

...'Talking about potato-headed Bobby' referring to another Zappa song.

Whipping Post is from NYC August 26, 1984 and available on DVD 'Does Humor Belong in Music', mostly performance of Tinsel Town Rebellion with Apostrophe pieces thrown in. Interesting set list to say the least.

[fenderbender]

 

starring Ray White, the original Illinois Enema Bandit. Check out the ripping solo and the keyboards totally deconstruct at 6:00 to 7:30

...'Talking about potato-headed Bobby' referring to another Zappa song.

 

Whipping Post is from NYC August 26, 1984 and available on DVD 'Does Humor Belong in Music', mostly performance of Tinsel Town Rebellion with Apostrophe pieces thrown in. Interesting set list to say the least.

You are correct Michael!

Frank really knew how to rip! He probably was one of the all time best guitarists ever... Shame so many people just know him for goofy lyrics... What an extraordinary talent!!!