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And The Stiffs Just Keep On Comin'

Yes, We Have No Bananas, by The Mulberry Fruit Band went to #1 in 1967, but does anyone remember it?

"We'll sell you some Swiss cheese, but when you try this cheese, it gets up and it walks away".
 
Silkie said:
Yes, We Have No Bananas, by The Mulberry Fruit Band went to #1 in 1967, but does anyone remember it? "We'll sell you some Swiss cheese, but when you try this cheese, it gets up and it walks away".
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As long as we've entered the realm of novelty songs again, how about Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream?" Dan Neaverth and Jim Santella gave it airplay and had fun with it. Also, Jump In The Saddle Gang, The Curly Shuffle. And just try to keep a straight face while watching this video.
 
JimPastrick said:
Silkie said:
Yes, We Have No Bananas, by The Mulberry Fruit Band went to #1 in 1967, but does anyone remember it? "We'll sell you some Swiss cheese, but when you try this cheese, it gets up and it walks away".
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As long as we've entered the realm of novelty songs again, how about Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream?" Dan Neaverth and Jim Santella gave it airplay and had fun with it. Also, Jump In The Saddle Gang, The Curly Shuffle. And just try to keep a straight face while watching this video.
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Yes, I remember KB playing "Shaving Cream" back in the day. I have it on an old cassette. Another novelty song, not sure if it's been mentioned already, is Steve Martin's "King Tut".
 
Time to start re-reading the 83 pages!! Like any good radio format...you're playing the same titles over & over & over!!! :D LOL
 
qman said:
And who can forget Weird Al's contributions like "Eat It", "Like A Surgeon", and "Smells Like Nirvana"?
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"I Think I'm A Clone Now"
Another stiff - doo wopp - "Nag", by The Halos
 
"As long as we've entered the realm of novelty songs again, how about Benny Bell's "Shaving Cream?"

That was first a hit back in 1946, when it was first recorded (and made the charts without any airplay at all--can you imagine ANY radio station playing it back then?). It came to most folks' attention when Dr. Demento dug it out, made it a feature on his show. Then back around the spring of '75 Mark Driscoll, the PD of WBBF in Rochester (which carried Dr. Demento on Sunday nights IIRC) noticed it was getting requests, and IIRC, he put it in the rotation, or at least played it in afternoon drive and allowed other jocks including night guy Cary Pall to play it. Don't know if that was the only catalyst for the record's revival but it didn't hurt.

Driscoll did so much crazy stuff on that station back in the mid-70s that it helped stop and maybe even reverse BBF's slide for at least a while, at at time when both WAXC and the emerging competition on FM had really been giving them problems.
 
Here's one of those 80s "Love It or Shove It" songs, from an album I discovered going through some vinyl while searching for Sinatra's "Live At the Sands" double LP. Submitted for your listening and dancing plez-ure: Pete Shelley and "Telephone Operator". Really strange how Shelley and Sinatra can reside on the same shelf. And Santana and Shalamar too, for that matter. A very eclectic neighborhood.

To Nick Seneca, my apologies. I misquoted Sinatra's opening line from the "Sands" LP with the Count Basie Orchestra. The correct quote is, "How did all these people get in my room?" What a great double LP.
 
JimPastrick said:
To Nick Seneca, my apologies. I misquoted Sinatra's opening line from the "Sands" LP with the Count Basie Orchestra. The correct quote is, "How did all these people get in my room?" What a great double LP.
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LOL - close enuf! I'm always happy to see ol' Frank get a mention.

Nick Seneca
 
Just opened an old box of 45's and found two that I'd consider stiffs (compared to their other work)...

I present to you, Three Dog Night


Let Me Serenade You

Sure As I'm Sitting Here
 
The RCS research department hasn't plowed through all 84 pages (so far) so please forgive if somebody beat me to:

I DO - Marvellows (1965) (re-done by J. Geils in the 80s)

CAPTAIN OF HER HEART - Double (1986)
 
Savage said:
CAPTAIN OF HER HEART - Double (1986)
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...from the same era,
"Taken In" - Mike & The Mechanics
"I'll be Over You" - Toto

...and from the very obscure department, a Buffalo Group produced by Rick James:
"Stomp and Shout" - Process and the Doo Rags
 


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