[78-L] Shortest 78
David Lennick
dlennick at sympatico.ca
Mon Feb 16 14:33:44 PST 2009
King Daevid MacKenzie wrote:
> ...come to think of it, Tom Paxton once recorded a live album containing a song titled "The Ballad of Spiro Agnew," its complete lyrics being "I sing of Spiro Agnew and all the things he's done" -- after which Paxton simply shut his mouth and stopped playing, causing a Jack Benny-like pregnant pause into audience laughter. Maybe Paxton deserves credit for the basic idea...
That was what I was referring to the other day, since John Denver "covered" it.
That album also had "The Ballad of Richard Nixon", which WAS just a few seconds
of blank grooves.
dl
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