Posted on 02/18/2021 6:15:08 PM PST by utford
I started listening to Rush in the early 1990s, and although I enjoyed him throughout his career, his early days were especially entertaining. From putting a condom over the mic (safe talk), his "update themes" (can name many of them), and his exposure of the House Bank Scandal, these are what I remember him for and wish that level of irreverence had continued. What do you remember from those days?
The vacuum cleaner abortions.
I remember the Paul Shanklin song parodies and my favorite, “Algore Paradise.”
When I first started listening to him he also had a ahort-lived rule that any woman caller was required to have a "photo on file" in order to be let on the air. I can't imagine how they did the filing for that!
Right! Whatever happened to those parodies?
I have to say the thing I remember him most for is his love for what the USA stands (stood?) for. I just watched a speech he gave talking about how everyone in this country has a shot to make something of themselves with hard work and determination.
Rush loved all people. Sure he poked fun of libs, but he never wished bad things to happen to them, other than having them defeated. I’m sure that the majority of the people saying awful things about him never listened to a full show.
I remember watching his TV show. It was hilarious.
Featuring his amazing ties.
And he’d show a video of some dumb politician talking, with him projected in the lower right portion of the screen, watching them in amazement. Sometime he’d turn around to the camera with a confused look, and then turn back to the pol and watch with his mouth open.
For some reason it just cracked me up. I was sorry his TV show went off the air.
Dan’s bake sale.
Born Free song.
Forgot about those - but that was one of the first shows I heard, and I was hooked as it was a great analogy....
Mine was “The Philanderer” - loved the Paul Shanklin parodies
In a Yugo :-))
I started listening to him when he was doing local NY Radio which was the lead in to his national show before Bob Grant at 3 PM. Just an amazing patriot but I do remember a lot of his update songs like My Boy Lollipopand You don’t know me.
I worked at a bank in San Francisco n the late 80’s.
Had a radio at my desk and listened to him before he went national.
He was the only voice at the time to talk about the failings of leftist politics and ideology
I totally forgot about that one! Had to look up the lyrics - classic:
At a used car lot on the edge of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo
And they drive with pride
Cause if there’s one thing that this world needs
It’s environmental friends who’ll take the lead
In a Yugo
They say, “people don’t you understand
Those suburbans are ruining the land”
But they’ll wish they had a full size van one day
They point fingers at you and me
They say we’re too blind to see
But do we simply use our heads
And choose another way?
As those small wheels turn
Fifty miles to the gallon
And their knees on their chest
They’re gonna save enough gas
For all of the rest
In a Yugo
Then one day on the interstate
They suddenly lose control
They swerve to miss a baby duck
They’re squashed beneath a produce truck
But they drove with pride...
And as the crowds drive past a little flat car
You know they saved a lot of gas
But they didnt get far
In a Yugo
And as they’re trapped inside
At a used car lot on the other side of town
A liberal guy and a liberal gal
Buy a Yugo....
And they drive with pride...
I started listening in 1992. The first time I tuned in to him he played “Ted Kennedy” singing, “I’m a Philanderet” and I was hooked! I laughed so hard! I was born and raised in Massachusetts, so that hit home with me.
I also loved “In a Yugo.”
My husband laughed so hard at “Walkin’ Round in Women’s Underwear,” but always said that it ruined the song for him whenever he heard the real version.
*philanderer
Not sure what happened with the TV show. It really wasn’t his thing, but I really liked to watch them, even would record them if I wasn’t able to watch them live.
That one was gold!
Classic!
Elvis would be proud.
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