Episode #1086

[Mysterious Benefactor]

 

Fill in the blanks: "Liz would have surely been horrified had she known that a green ________ was crawling up the back of her head with the vicious intent of ________!!!"

[Willie Loomis]

...Hoffman bug.........making her sputter and act all spastic as a lesson to learn that only JULIA HOFFMAN wears green.

[Uncle Roger]

Tambourine

Making her a Lemon Piper

[Mysterious Benefactor]

   Too funny!!   

(And I loved that song back in the day. Sadly, I haven't heard it in ages - not even when I listen to Classic Hits ('60s/'70s/'80s) radio once in a while.  )

[Uncle Roger]

Thanks, MB! And, in case you're interested, there is a video of the Lemon Pipers performing the song on YouTube.

[Bob_the_Bartender]

Uncle Roger,

Speaking of the Lemon Pipers reminds me of another bubble-gum group of the 1960s, The Ohio Express.  This group once  appeared on a late 1960s game show, and performed their "big" hit song, "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I've Got Love in My Tummy."

On this game show, the celebrity panelists were supposed to guess the title of the song.  Well, the reason this game show and this "classic" song stick in my head, is because Dark Shadows' own David Henesy and his mother were two of the celebrity panelists.  And, David actually knew the title of the song!

Bob

[Uncle Roger]

I know the song well. About three years ago, I got to hear the great Joey Levine sing Yummy, Yummy, Yummy to a sellout crowd at BB King's in NYC. (Though my favorite version of the song is by Julie London who slowed the song down to a torch song. Totally reinterpretation!)  

[dom]

That whole Julie London album is off the hook.

[Uncle Roger]

Because Nice Girls Don't Stay For Breakfast.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(I know Green Tambourine is considered the first bubblegum song, though looking back it's hard to understand why because it actually has some depth. The true bubblegum songs that I remember were all throwaway fluff. Their hooks may have lingered in your head whether you wanted them to or not (which is obviously what turned them into hits) but there was no substance to them...)

[Uncle Roger]

Do it to me, Chewy. Chew me out of my mind.

[Mysterious Benefactor]

(  No doubt one of your favorite lyrics.  )

[Uncle Roger]

Most definitely!!!