Comments | critic75: TOE TAPPIN' TIME

critic75

TOE TAPPIN' TIME

Mar 01, 2012 01:02

Okay, here I go again. Inflicting, infecting, or maybe sometimes inspiring. Nah, I won't go that far. Just be grateful that I didn't post some of my other nonsense. This is an all time favorite toe-tapper. WITH WORDS. Have you guessed by now, that musically, I'm kind of stuck in the sixties?

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equusentric March 1 2012, 13:34:10 UTC

Ah, Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs! I loved them when I was a kid. My favorite song of theirs was "Grasshopper." :D

critic75 March 2 2012, 00:31:13 UTC

Da-umm, I must have missed that one. Looked for it on You-Tube, and couldn't find it. I'll look some more later. I guess they didn't play it on our radio station. I am always open to cultural enlightenment, and that sounds as if it would be fun educational.

equusentric March 2 2012, 01:41:18 UTC

Unfortunately, "Grasshopper" is hard to find anywhere except off the original album. I've often been tempted to buy a copy off eBay or something (provided Greg ever sets the turntable back up) since my sister stole the album that I stole off my brother way back when. :P

I don't remember all the lyrics, but it was a song about a girl he liked and if she was one thing, he'd want to be another, like if she were a picture he'd want to be her frame, if she was an apple he'd want to be her tree, etc. And the line I liked as a kid was "I'm so glad she's not a blade of grass 'cause that would make me be a leeeeetle grasshopperrrrrrrrrrrrr!"

The 60's fansee March 1 2012, 23:29:29 UTC

Where WAS I during the 60's??? I swear, I never heard "Wooly Bully" before or even heard OF it. *sigh*

One quibble: Whoever wrote down the words, made the same mistake more than once (or once't, as we said in Arkansas). The singer clearly said 'thang,' not 'thing.'

Thank you for broadening my cultural horizons. FanSee

Re: The 60's critic75 March 2 2012, 01:18:36 UTC

Back in the day, some of the radio stations refused to play it because they couldn't understand the words. I know I thought he was saying "Hadacol Hattie", but maybe you heard "Little Red Riding Hood" which was one of their big hits, and was a song featured in a Bruce Willis movie named "Striking Distance."
I'm so proud to know that I have contributed to your cultural enlightenment. Call on me anytime.

I've always contended that another song (unrelated) was misnamed. It clearly should have been, "Oh, I'm Thanking tonight of my Blue Eyes, and I wonder if he ever Thanks of me."

Re: The 60's damietta March 2 2012, 01:41:22 UTC

"Little Red Riding Hood" awhoooo, I mean "baaa" cracks me up to this day. This are great songs to song bomg someone with; they stay with you for days!

Re: The 60's critic75 March 2 2012, 02:10:11 UTC

Oh, you are so right! That really is something I get afflicted with. A song gets stuck in my head, and stays there for days. I have just got rid of "Hello Muddah, Hello Faddeh." However, the Songs of the Sixties don't haunt me as long. Maybe because I never remembered all the words.

I think "Little Red Riding Hood" is a true 60's classic. And it's fun, too.

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spike7451 March 2 2012, 11:11:24 UTC

I'm kind of stuck in the sixties?

..... and what a great place it was musically. :)

I still have my Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs old vinyl single of "Little Red Riding Hood". I loved that song. :)

critic75 March 2 2012, 16:19:28 UTC

Ah, those were the Good Ole Days. When you could buy a 45, and listen to the one song you wanted to hear. Didn't have to buy the whole Album, or CD, could put it on the player, and play it over and over again, and they were affordable CHEAP.
I wouldn't have left the sixties, but then Abba came along.

I LOVE little red ridin' hood. Can't sing it, though I might manage a ba-aa.