Favorite 'early years' songs?
Posted: Sun Jun 12, 2011 7:10 am
Here's a question I don't *think* has been asked here before - what's your favorite pre-first album song??
Your choices (these are all that are circulating at the time being):
* Belvedere Cruisin' (and Belvedere Cruisin' '78 - same song, faster tempo)
* School Cafeteria
* Leisure Suit Serenade
* Cheerios, Apple Jacks, Cheerios
* Nobody Here But Us Frogs
* Dead Car Battery Blues
* Crampton Comes Alive (the non-Food Medley version of this turned up recently - sadly, looks like there was only ever that one verse!!)
* Hit Me With A Rock
* Never Met A Person As Wonderful As Me
* American Slob
* Take Me Down
* The Beverly Hillbillies / Miss You
* You Don't Take Your Showers
* More Songs About Food (Feel Like Throwin' Up, Throw Gravy On You, Take Me To The Liver, Fatter)
* Baby Likes Burping
* Won't Eat Prunes Again (see note below!!)
* It's Still Billy Joel To Me
* Miniature Golf
* If I Could Make Love To A Bottle
* I'm Stupid Blues
* Pac-Man
I won't count "Dr. D Superstar", since we've only heard a small fragment of the song. (Ditto "The Elements", but Al didn't write that.)
Anyway, a small note about "Won't Eat Prunes Again"... I just stumbled across the uncirculated-by-fans cassette recording of this song that Al submitted to Dr. Demento. (The common version was a live radio performance.) This performance actually bears an alternate second verse, whereas the radio version has Al repeating part of the first verse. Here is the otherwise unheard version, with new lines marked with asterisks.
That was such a dirty trick
Boy, it really made us sick
Well, it looks like we've been done in by the prune
Still the memory lingers on
I've been living in the john
'Cause I've had the runs since Monday afternoon
* I'd sell my soul for some new constipation
* Need a cure for this new aggravation
* Diarrhea has taken its toll
* Still got the runs today, just like yesterday
* Buddy, that's why I'm here to say
We won't eat prunes again!
Your choices (these are all that are circulating at the time being):
* Belvedere Cruisin' (and Belvedere Cruisin' '78 - same song, faster tempo)
* School Cafeteria
* Leisure Suit Serenade
* Cheerios, Apple Jacks, Cheerios
* Nobody Here But Us Frogs
* Dead Car Battery Blues
* Crampton Comes Alive (the non-Food Medley version of this turned up recently - sadly, looks like there was only ever that one verse!!)
* Hit Me With A Rock
* Never Met A Person As Wonderful As Me
* American Slob
* Take Me Down
* The Beverly Hillbillies / Miss You
* You Don't Take Your Showers
* More Songs About Food (Feel Like Throwin' Up, Throw Gravy On You, Take Me To The Liver, Fatter)
* Baby Likes Burping
* Won't Eat Prunes Again (see note below!!)
* It's Still Billy Joel To Me
* Miniature Golf
* If I Could Make Love To A Bottle
* I'm Stupid Blues
* Pac-Man
I won't count "Dr. D Superstar", since we've only heard a small fragment of the song. (Ditto "The Elements", but Al didn't write that.)
Anyway, a small note about "Won't Eat Prunes Again"... I just stumbled across the uncirculated-by-fans cassette recording of this song that Al submitted to Dr. Demento. (The common version was a live radio performance.) This performance actually bears an alternate second verse, whereas the radio version has Al repeating part of the first verse. Here is the otherwise unheard version, with new lines marked with asterisks.
That was such a dirty trick
Boy, it really made us sick
Well, it looks like we've been done in by the prune
Still the memory lingers on
I've been living in the john
'Cause I've had the runs since Monday afternoon
* I'd sell my soul for some new constipation
* Need a cure for this new aggravation
* Diarrhea has taken its toll
* Still got the runs today, just like yesterday
* Buddy, that's why I'm here to say
We won't eat prunes again!