[78-L] Party Records question

David Lennick dlennick at sympatico.ca
Sat Sep 10 07:21:31 PDT 2011


Well, there's "A Guy is A Guy" which was a cleaned-up version of "A Gob Is a 
Gob", and the totally sanitized "Sweet Violets" that Dinah Shore sang..and in 
the 70s, "Shaving Cream" and "The Biggest Parakeets in Town" weren't sanitized 
at all.

Never heard "Frieda" for some reason.

dl

On 9/10/2011 9:54 AM, Dennis Flannigan wrote:
> In my unrelenting, weekly (or weakly) radio tribute to Scandinavian humor, I
> played "FRIEDA, THE EGG LAYING HEN," by Yogi Yorgesson. "Frieda," seems a
> cleaned up version of "Crepitation Contest." Am I reading too much into
> this? Was it an inside joke when it was released?
>
> Did other party records inspire over the counter releases? I guess, "Dance
> With Me Henry," is such an example. Any others? Earlier?
>
> df


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