[78-L] Col Bogey. was OOmpah

[David Lennick]

Speaking of which, there's a story from last week about an ad agency that chose 
a cheery march from an album of 15 for a car commercial, and it turned out to 
be the Horst Wessel Lied. BIG oops. I'll try and find it.

dl

On 1/24/2012 1:16 PM, Mike Harkin wrote:
> Previous message sent accidentally - using a laptop, which I am not accustomed to,
>
> Google, Hitler has only got one ball.  Lots of good hits.
>
> I'm looking for a VERY feelthy parody of the Horst Wessel Lied which begins
> Die schwaentze hoch, Arschloecher fest geschlossen&c&c
>
> Mike in Plovdiv
>
> --- On Tue, 1/24/12, David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>  wrote:
>
>> From: David Lennick<dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Oompah question (sort of)
>> To: "78-L Mail List"<78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2012, 5:18 PM
>> A dirty phrase is like a
>> melody......I'm still looking for the feelthy lyrics
>> to Colonel Bogey (BS..was all the band could play). And the
>> joke whose
>> punchline is "Not tonight, Josephine".
>>
>> My CBC producers and I spent ages on the telephone and
>> researching elsewhere,
>> trying to find the source of "There's a town in France" when
>> Peter Schickele
>> quoted it in one of his pastiche works. It seems to date
>> from a pre-1900
>> World's Fair and the snake charmer or can shaker or
>> something like that. No,
>> not from Saint-Saens' Bacchanale.
>>
>> dl
>>
>> On 1/24/2012 12:13 PM, Julian Vein wrote:
>>> I was playing one of those Gene Ammons Prestige jam
>> sessions. Ammons
>>> quotes the phrase I know as  "Oompah, oompah,
>> stick it up your jumper",
>>> as does Jackie McLean who follows him. Does this phrase
>> (like "There's a
>>> town in France") have a specfic melody associated with
>> it?
>>>
>>>
>>>          Julian Vein