Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site alberta.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!alberta!jeff From: jeff@alberta.UUCP (C. J. Sampson) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Worst Lyrics: "Fish heads..." Message-ID: <184@alberta.UUCP> Date: Wed, 10-Oct-84 18:06:42 EDT Article-I.D.: alberta.184 Posted: Wed Oct 10 18:06:42 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 08:00:52 EDT References: <223cc7de.708@apollo.uucp> Organization: his Personal Computer Lines: 25 >The "Fish heads" song, if I remember correctly, was one of a series >of similarly weird pieces recorded by a UCLA student and submitted >to Dr. Demento when he was doing his original Sunday night show on >KMET in Los Angeles (mid-seventies or earlier...). I don't remember >the student's name, but she was very creative and prolific; she >apparently did all her recordings on a little cassette player in the >UCLA dorm where she lived at the time. BTW, "Weird Al" Yancovic also got >his start in the same way; Dr. Demento was playing his stuff (much of >it FAR weirder and funnier than the recent Jackson parodies) many >years ago... And as for bad lyrics in general, some of Dr. Demento's >favorites would win any competition hands down (e.g., "Dead puppies >aren't much fun... YEECHH!!!). For some of the strangest lyrics, you should look to Tom Lehrer. He did a lot of parodies of styles of songs (rather than individual songs) back in the '50s and '60s. Has anybody here ever heard of him? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ C. J. Sampson Snail Canada: #712 11135-83rd ave. ***DISCLAIMER*** ihnp4!alberta!jeff Edmonton, Alberta +--------------+ ubc-vision!alberta!jeff CANADA T6G 2C8 | These may | sask!alberta!jeff | be opinions. | +--------------+ "He who spends the storm beneath a tree, takes life with a grain of TNT."