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Civilization (Bongo, Bongo, Bongo)
Steyn On-line ^ | December 3, 2017 | Mark Steyn

Posted on 12/03/2017 4:47:35 PM PST by Twotone

December is here, and, before we get into our cornucopia of Christmas selections, I wanted to mark the anniversary of a non-seasonal song introduced to the world at the Coronet Theatre in New York seventy years ago this month - December 11th 1947. It's still widely known, although allusions to it can be perilous. A couple of years back, making some observations on Britain's "overseas development" budget, Godfrey Bloom, a UKIP member of the European Parliament, found himself in hot water - indeed, a veritable cannibal's cooking pot - when he opined that there's no point wasting taxpayers' money by giving it to "Bongo Bongo Land". The usual brouhaha ensued, with the delicate spinsters and dowagers of the diversity biz having the vapors, and Mr Bloom subsequently vanished from the scene - though, whether for the Bongo-Bongo remark, or his assertion that David Cameron was "pigeon-chested, the sort of chap I used to beat up", or his jocular reference to a disabled debate opponent at the Oxford Union as "Richard II", or possibly some other jest entirely, I cannot say.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: marksteyn; music; song
A little 'cultural appropriation' by Mark Steyn for a Sunday evening...
1 posted on 12/03/2017 4:47:35 PM PST by Twotone
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To: Twotone

Let’s bungle in the jungle....

Steyn’s great illustration has by two bongos that I can make out.


2 posted on 12/03/2017 5:00:21 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: Twotone

Absolutely priceless! Mark Steyn is both musician and musicologist in his own right and this wonderful bit of political incorrectness gives us real hope for the survival of Western Civilization, if only for its utter defiance of the dictatorship of the intellectualariat.

;^)


3 posted on 12/03/2017 5:02:14 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Twotone

Shame in Mark for failing to mention the reintroduction of Civilization to gamers everywhere when it was unforgettably included in the ‘sound track,’ of the wildly successful Bethesda game Fallout 3. Not to mention being forever inculcated with Butcher Pete.


4 posted on 12/03/2017 5:02:21 PM PST by sparklite2 (I hereby designate the ongoing kerfuffle Diddle-Gate.)
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To: sauropod

Bkmk


5 posted on 12/03/2017 5:20:43 PM PST by sauropod (I am His and He is Mine)
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To: Twotone
bangin' on the bongos like a chimpanzee!
6 posted on 12/03/2017 5:22:14 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: TigersEye
Red Rose Tea
7 posted on 12/03/2017 5:31:04 PM PST by BlueLancer (ANTIFA - The new and improved SturmAbteilung)
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To: BlueLancer

LOL


8 posted on 12/03/2017 5:37:01 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Twotone
Oh, and Sigman also made Charles Gates Dawes the most successful Vice-President on the Hot One Hundred, when he took a little instrumental written by Coolidge's Veep and turned it into "(Many a tear has to fall but) It's All In The Game".

Dawes was long dead by the time his song made the Hit Parade, and is something of a historical curiosity. Nobel Prize winner for helping dig post-WWI Germany out of hyper-inflation through the Dawes Plan. Great-great-grandson of William Dawes, the guy who rode with Paul Revere. Vice President, banker, and could thump a mean piano too.

9 posted on 12/03/2017 5:37:03 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Twotone

Civilization can only be found in the hated West.
That’s why the uncivilized move to that part of the world.


10 posted on 12/03/2017 5:42:05 PM PST by 353FMG
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To: Twotone
They've got things like the atom bomb,
So I think I'll stay where I am.
Civilization? I'll stay right here!

Civilization--Jack Smith with the Clark Sisters (1947)

11 posted on 12/03/2017 6:20:54 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Billthedrill

A Steynian post. Well and nicely done....


12 posted on 12/03/2017 6:24:31 PM PST by Paladin2 (No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition on mobile dev. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
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To: TigersEye

The little faggot got his own jet airplane.


13 posted on 12/03/2017 6:30:49 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Billthedrill
Tommy Edwards scored twice with Vice President Dawes' opus. The first version was a waltz, but the later version was set to more of a rock beat and became the bigger hit.

It's All In the Game--Tommy Edwards (1951)

It's All In the Game--Tommy Edwards (1958)

14 posted on 12/03/2017 6:32:05 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: NorthMountain
It's funny (and kind of relevant to a Mark Steyn thread) that that song, Money For Nothing, has been banned by the thought police in Canada. I didn't know that until I did a search to find that video.

In January 2011, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) ruled that the unedited version of the song was unacceptable for air play on private Canadian radio stations, as it breached the Canadian Association of Broadcasters' (CAB) Code of Ethics and their Equitable Portrayal Code.

Freakin' little Marxists even hate rock and roll.

15 posted on 12/03/2017 6:37:38 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: TigersEye

The Canadian PC Police were offended by the line I quoted ...


16 posted on 12/03/2017 6:50:36 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: Twotone

Today’s social justice wienies would bust a gusset if they heard the origin of that - “Civilization” by Two Ton Baker (The Music Maker).


17 posted on 12/03/2017 7:12:45 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: NorthMountain

No doubt they were culturally offended by that and personally offended by the “chimpanzees/bongos” line.


18 posted on 12/03/2017 7:30:47 PM PST by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: Twotone
Andrews Sisters & Danny Kaye - Civilization (Bongo Bongo Bongo) 1948

From the Broadway Musical "Angel In The Wings" (1947)

(Bob Hilliard / Carl Sigman)

Danny Kaye & The Andrews Sisters - 1947

Ray McKinley & His Orch. - 1947

Louis Prima & His Orch. - 1947

Jack Smith - 1947

Woody Herman & His Orch. - 1947

ANDREWS SISTERS:

Each morning a missionary advertise with neon sign

He tells the native population that civilization is fine

And three educated savages holler from a bongo tree

That civilization is a thing for me to see

DANNY KAYE:

So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to leave the Congo

Oh no no no no no

Bingle, bangle, bungle I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse

to go

Don't want no bright lights, false teeth, doorbells, landlords

I make it clear

AS: That no matter how they coax him

DK: Yeeeah, I'll stay right here

DK: I looked through a magazine the missionary's wife concealed

AS: Magazine? What happens?

DK: I see how people who are civilized bang you with automobiles

AS: You know you can get hurt that way Daniel

DK: At the movies they have got to pay many coconuts to see

AS: What do they see Danny?)

DK: Uncivilized pictures that the newsreel takes of me

AS: So bongo, bongo, bongo, he don't want to leave the Congo

Oh no no no no no

Bingle, bangle, bungle he's so happy in the jungle he refuse to go

DK: Don't want no penthouse, bathtub, streetcars, taxis Noise in my ear

AS: So no matter how they coax him

DK: Yeeeah, I'll stay right here

AS: They hurry like savages to get aboard an iron train

And though it's smoky and it's crowded

They're too civilized to complain

DK: When they've got two weeks vacation

They hurry to vacation ground

AS: What do they do Danny?

DK: They swim and they fish,

But that's what I do all year round

ALL: So bongo, bongo, bongo I don't want to leave the congo

Oh no no no no no

Bingle, bangle, bungle I'm so happy in the jungle I refuse to go

DK: Don't want no jailhouse,

AS: Shotguns,

DK: Fish hooks,

AS: Golf clubs,

AS: You know you can get hurt that way Daniel

DK: I got my spears

AS: So no matter how they coax him

DK: Yeeeah, I'll stay right here

AS: They have things like the atom bomb

DK: So I think I'll stay where I a-a-m

ALL: Civilization, I'll stay right here

19 posted on 12/03/2017 9:33:48 PM PST by Nateman (The louder the left screams , the better it is for America!)
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