Posted on 04/10/2021 12:58:04 PM PDT by FLNittany
Plus “Lady Godiva’ and “Freakers Ball”(Snicker, snicker)
One of my favorite bands of all time. The guy with the eyepatch (Ray Stewart) passed away in 2019 at age 81.
. Another stupid “Cover of the Rolling Stone”
Ooops, strike “stupid”
Were they ever sober?
Don’t know. Don’t care. They were geniuses.
Shel Silverstein is mostly unknown today, and that’s a shame. I got my kids a book of his poems for kids, which were clever and slightly naughty.
It was only recently I found that he’d written several of Dr. Hook’s hits. Also about a year ago I was trying to find a song called “Beans Taste Fine”, by an old folky named Papa John Kolstad. Turns out Shel Silverstein wrote that as well.
I’ve always like the line
“The world is funny, and people are strange,
And man is a creature of constant change, and
After you’ve been havin’ steak for a long time
Beans, beans taste fine.”
And of course there’s that Boy named Sue.
He was quite a real personality and talent. We don’t have them anymore, unfortunately. Everything is run though a marketing company and then an auto tune.
Thanks for posting this. Made my day!
—he and Bobby Bare did some great stuff, too—
The Devil and Billy Markham. He did have his darker side.... 🙄
They looked so much alike that I thought Ray was Marty Robbin’s alter ego, wearing an eye patch and a gold tooth as a disguise. But Marty died first, which blew my theory.
I bumped into him early one Sunday morning (about 2 am) on West End in Nashville in the parking lot of the old 'Ferrari's' restaurant.
I'm going to my car in a poorly-lit parking lot when I see this sort of ominous-looking tall-ish beaded man with a slick head and a beard wearing an ankle-length off-white muslin tunic striding energetically across the parking lot in the opposite direction. I was a bit alarmed at first until I realized, "Holy hell, that's Shel Silverstein!"
I always liked his poem, Jaded. “ Nothing to do but sleep in the sun. Nothing to think about it having fun. Nothing to eat but filet mignon. I’m starting to think that I’m jaded.
I agree, they were a great band but every time you see them on a video they are either drunk or stoned. That said, they were really fun too listen to and watch.
Sylvia’s Mother Third verse the bald headed man laying down playing the harmonica and claps when they are finished is Shel. He was a great artist in many respects and his music varied from Country {A Boy Named Sue}, Rock { several songs for Dr Hook},and Folk the Unicorn Song the Irish Rovers sang. IIRC back in the day he wrote both kids and adults stories among them a book on the ABC’s with two versions. One thing the man could not do though was sing.
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