Posted on 12/24/2001 1:52:46 AM PST by Neets
Edited on 05/26/2004 5:03:00 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Ever wonder why some songs - no matter how good or how bad - get stuck inside your head and won
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Ya hafta wonder how those guys at KFYI find all these things?
Thanks ... now that tune will be ever-present all day, but I don't think I'll be singing that one to my dog!!!
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Christmas Time In Hell by Satan
I'm A Lonley Jew On Christmas by Kyle
Merry F**king Christmas by Mr. Garrison
The Dreidel Song by Kyle
Kyles Mom Is A Big Fat Bitch in D Minor by Cartman
Mr. Hankey The Christmas Poo song
O Holy Night by Cartman
Carol of the Bells by Mr. Mackey
C.W. McCall is not a real person. "C.W. McCall" isn't the name of the group that recorded the music. C.W. McCall is the nom de chanteur of Bill Fries, an advertising man who created the character of C.W. McCall.
In 1972, while working for the Omaha advertising firm of Bozell Jacobs, Bill Fries created a television campaign for the Old Home Bread brand of the Metz Baking Company. The advertisements told of the adventures of truck driver C.W. McCall, his dog Sloan, and of the truck stop that McCall frequented, The Old Home Café. Bill based the character and his environment on his own upbringing in western Iowa. The commercials were very successful. So successful, that the Des Moines Register published the air times of the commercials in the daily television listings.
From those commercials came the first of the C.W. McCall songs, named after the restaurant: "Old Home Fill-er Up An' Keep On A-Truckin' Café". While Bill provided the lyrics to the song and the voice of C.W. McCall, his collaborator Chip Davis wrote the music. Soon C.W.'s first album -- Wolf Creek Pass -- was released, whose title song was a misadventure of a truck with brake failure.
C.W. McCall's popularity reached its peak in January 1976, when "Convoy" -- from his second album, Black Bear Road -- reached the number one position on both the pop and country charts of Billboard.
Like most musical acts, C.W. McCall toured the country, with Bill singing the words of C.W. and the "Fort Calhoun Nuclear Power Plant Boys" playing the music. In reality, the "Boys" were Chip Davis and an eclectic mix of musicians, who spent their non-C.W. McCall time recording albums of Chip's music. Chip was a pioneer of "New Age" music, and his albums, recorded under the group name of "Mannheim Steamroller", were also successful. But the fact that Chip Davis was the music behind C.W. McCall was not a well-known fact.
Four additional albums followed, although they were not as successful as the first two. By 1980, Bill Fries had retired from the music business. Years earlier he had moved Ouray, Colorado, and he served as the town mayor for two terms in the late 1980s.
The last album to be released was 1990's The Real McCall: An American Storyteller. This album, the first C.W. McCall recording to be released on audio CD, contained one new song and fifteen rerecordings of songs from the previous albums.
Bill still lives in Ouray with his wife Rena (the "RJ" of the song "Black Bear Road") and Hannah the German Shepard, when he's not travelling in his motorhome.
What kind of sick weirdo are you? If you were a doctor, I'll bet you'd give someone the bubonic plague to take their mind off the flu.
(VVBG) ;)
By the Swinging Medallions
An all time classic One Hit Wonder
Foreigner. *puke city*
"Ohhh-ohh, he's a magic man"
barf-o-matic
Double Shot (Of My Baby's Love)
Written By Don Smith & Cyril Vetter
Recorded by the Swingin' Medallions
Originally recorded by Dick Holler and the Holidays
Also recorded by the K-Otics
Woke up this morning, my head was so bad
The worst hangover that I ever had
What happened to me last night
That girl of mine, she loved me so right (yeah!) (oh, oh)
She loved me so long and she loved me so hard
I finally passed out in her front yard (whoo!)
It wasn't wine that I had too much of
It was a double shot of my baby's love
Double shot of my baby's love, yeah yeah, yeah
Double shot of my baby's love, yeah yeah, yeah
A potion that I had too much of
It was a double shot of my baby's love
It was such a thrill it was hurtin' me (ooh!)
I was sufferin' in ecstasy
She had me turnin' flips and-a shoutin' out loud (yah-hah!)
A sip of her love and I was walkin' on a cloud
One night a week is-a plenty enough
It's a good thing for me they don't bottle that stuff [pop!]
Well, my heart begins to fly like a dove
When I take a double shot of my baby's love
Double shot of my baby's love, yeah yeah, yeah
Double shot of my baby's love, yeah yeah, yeah
A potion that I had too much of
It was a double shot of my baby's love
Double shot of my baby's love, yeah yeah, yeah
[repeat to fade]
Hey Geez !
I think that was Scott McKenzie , not Petula !
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