{"id":8234,"date":"2013-12-28T16:04:50","date_gmt":"2013-12-28T16:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/28\/saturday-nght-at-the-oldies-politically-incorect-tunes\/"},"modified":"2013-12-28T16:04:50","modified_gmt":"2013-12-28T16:04:50","slug":"saturday-nght-at-the-oldies-politically-incorect-tunes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/28\/saturday-nght-at-the-oldies-politically-incorect-tunes\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Politically Incorrect Tunes"},"content":{"rendered":"

No day without political incorrectness! And no night either.
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Ray Stevens, Ahab the Arab<\/a>.  Here<\/a> is the original from 1962.  In the lyrics there are references to two hits from the same era, Chubby Checker's The Twist<\/a> (1960) and Lonnie Donegan's British skiffle number  Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavor<\/a>?  On second thought, the reference is to Checker's Le't's Twist Again Like We Did Last Summer <\/a>(1960).<\/span><\/p>\n

Larry Verne, Mr. Custer<\/a> (1960). "What am I doin' here?"<\/span><\/p>\n

And now a trio of feminist anthems. Marcie Blaine, Bobby's Girl<\/a>.  "And if I was Bobby's girl, what a faithful, thankful girl I'd be."  Carol Deene, Johnny Get Angry<\/a>.  Can't find the Joanie Sommers original, but this is an adequate cover.  "I want a cave man!"  k. d. lang's parody<\/a>.  Little Peggy March, I Will Follow Him<\/a>.  "From now until forever."<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile the guys were bragging of having a girl in every port of call.  Dion, The Wanderer<\/a> (1961). Ricky Nelson, Travelin' Man<\/a>. (1961)<\/span><\/p>\n

Addendum<\/strong>:  I forgot to link to two Ray Stevens numbers that are sure to rankle the sorry sensibilities of  our liberal pals: Come to the USA<\/a>, God Save Arizona<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No day without political incorrectness! And no night either. Ray Stevens, Ahab the Arab.  Here is the original from 1962.  In the lyrics there are references to two hits from the same era, Chubby Checker's The Twist (1960) and Lonnie Donegan's British skiffle number  Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavor?  On second thought, the reference … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Politically Incorrect Tunes”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}