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.
(Excerpt) Read more at steynonline.com ...
Let’s bungle in the jungle....
Steyn’s great illustration has by two bongos that I can make out.
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.
;^)
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.
Bkmk
LOL
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.
Civilization can only be found in the hated West.
That’s why the uncivilized move to that part of the world.
Civilization--Jack Smith with the Clark Sisters (1947)
A Steynian post. Well and nicely done....
The little faggot got his own jet airplane.
It's All In the Game--Tommy Edwards (1951)
It's All In the Game--Tommy Edwards (1958)
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.
The Canadian PC Police were offended by the line I quoted ...
Today’s social justice wienies would bust a gusset if they heard the origin of that - “Civilization” by Two Ton Baker (The Music Maker).
No doubt they were culturally offended by that and personally offended by the “chimpanzees/bongos” line.
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
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