Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site sunybcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!sunybcs!acsgjjp From: acsgjjp@sunybcs.UUCP (The Central Scrutinizer) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Re: The Worst Lyrics You've Ever Heard Message-ID: <759@sunybcs.UUCP> Date: Wed, 24-Oct-84 19:05:06 EDT Article-I.D.: sunybcs.759 Posted: Wed Oct 24 19:05:06 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 25-Oct-84 03:19:32 EDT References: <1572@uvacs.UUCP> <2115@usceast.UUCP> Organization: Mystic Knights of the Oingo Boingo, Lodge #2 Lines: 30 [Hearts full of youth, hearts full of truth; 6 parts gin to 1 part vermouth."] > >> You bet I remember "Three little fitties;" however, I was five or > >> six at the time, so I can't remember the name of the song..... > >> ..... I think this song came out sometime between 1950 and 1952. > > > >I would have guessed sometime in the 1940's, but memory is treacherous. > >I think it was just called "Three Little Fishes". > > ....the Three Little whatever's . My father says he heard it in college > in the mid 30's. I don't doubt that there was a version in the early > 50's though; the idea that covering other people's songs showes a lack > of creativity is a fairly new one. Kay Kyser's "Three Little Fishies (Itty Bitty Poo)" was indeed out in the 30's. It may have had a comeback in later times. (How many out there have heard of (or even remember) Kay Kyser's Kollege of Musical Knowledge (?)) I know this because I remember hearing these old songs on the Dr. Demento show, when it was on here in Buffalo. (Since this past January, I've been listening to it on CHUM-FM from Toronto.) Maybe there should be a net.music.demented for us devotees of the show :-) . (He plays Tom Lehrer!) "Tom Lehrer is to college life what Mark Russell is to American politics." -- From under the smogberry trees.... Jim Poltrone (a/k/a Poltr1, the Last of the Raster Blasters) uucp: [decvax,watmath,rocksvax]!sunybcs!acsgjjp ARPAnet, CSnet: acsgjjp%buffalo@CSNET-RELAY Don't forget to STAY DEMENTED!