That Myth Tickle might qualify as a geezer alert. I think most of those songs have held up pretty well but I’m not sure if younger people know the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
Guero, I didn’t realize that was a Duke Ellington song. The rest of course I know but they all get played pretty widely.
Usual John, the clerk’s lines (and Doc’s line in the last panel) are all song lyrics. “I’ve got you under my skin.” It’s a real stretch that “Frankenstein” could be misheard or badly-written enough to be misinterpreted as “Myskin” but that seems to be the intent, an exaggeration of bureaucratic sloppiness.
That’s the theme of this creator’s videos: Younger guy plays a pop song… and then an older generation (or two) of the guy plays the original… or at least an older cover… or at least an antecedent: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4ME708-WtISIFQjwH2AfNQ
Not just Squirrel Nut Zippers but old cartoons. There was a cartoon about a young skunk who was unlucky in love until he got himself a “Frankie” costume — Frank Sinatra — and sang “All Or Nothing At All” which must have been Frankie’s big hit at the time. When we think of Frank Sinatra we usually only think of his later songs like “New York” and “My Way”.
Mark – My dad had an extensive record collection (33-1/3s, 45s and 78s) when I was growing up. My middle sister ended up with the collection after parents died (as she did with most things of parents’ things – and this is not a complaint, glad she wanted and had room for stuff, plus she has children to pass it along to in the future and we do not).
I grew up on Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, The Andrew sisters, Dinah Shore, and many of the other big bands and in general singers of the 1940s/50s.
As a child I thought that the song “Girl with Golden Braids” (Perry Como) was written about me as I had blond hair and mom put them in braids every day.
My family loved music of all sorts even though if others were around we tended to be listeners as none of us could/can carry tune. Dad also had an assortment of other music such as Gilbert and Sullivan and so on. Husband grew up with the same big band music – but in his family his dad played it rather than hearing it on records. Husband has learned to smile and not try to correct my singing as he has learned I am tone deaf. (One of his really nice points among so many others is putting up with my singing – we may not have been able to carry a tune – but we all did sing enthusiastically.
One of things (among many) that I learned from Mat “Techmoan” Taylor was that playing 78s is not just a matter of RPMs. Even though many turntables supported the speed, if you played the records with a regular cartridge they would sound bad. You need a special, larger, stylus.
I have my Dad’s record collection now, along with many others I have collected. Dad particularly loved jazz and enjoyed classical too. So I have lots of 78’s, and I have a turntable that can play all three speeds, 33, 45 and 78 (16 rpm being very rare, as few of those records were intended for the consumer market).
Back in the 1960’s, Phyllis Diller said “I was just named Miss Phonograph Record of 1962 because my measurements are 33-45-78.”
There’s a young woman who has been posting on Facebook (that’s where I have seen her, anyway, even if she may have other media presence) with short video clips that usually begin ‘Welcome to another day of listening to my late father’s record collection’. Profile at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573973687907
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That Myth Tickle might qualify as a geezer alert. I think most of those songs have held up pretty well but I’m not sure if younger people know the Squirrel Nut Zippers.
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Those songs pre-date the Squirrel Nut Zippers by 40 or 50 years. And now I’m feeling really, really old.
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What is the Mythtickle’s connection to the Squirrel Nut Zippers? Also (and possibly related), what is the significance of “Myskin”?
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Guero, I didn’t realize that was a Duke Ellington song. The rest of course I know but they all get played pretty widely.
Usual John, the clerk’s lines (and Doc’s line in the last panel) are all song lyrics. “I’ve got you under my skin.” It’s a real stretch that “Frankenstein” could be misheard or badly-written enough to be misinterpreted as “Myskin” but that seems to be the intent, an exaggeration of bureaucratic sloppiness.
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Okay, now I feel silly for not recognizing “myskin,” and of course I did get the other song lyrics. But the Squirrel Nut Zippers?
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There are, in fact, many monuments to the victims of the Black Plague throughout Europe… and most of them have explanatory plaques:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_Column,_Vienna
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_Column,_Kutn%C3%A1_Hora
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_Column_(Maribor)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_Column,_Timi%C8%99oara
etc.
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At one time I thought that “Istanbul” was an original by They Might Be Giants.
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At one time I thought that “Istanbul” was an original by They Might Be Giants.
ME TOO!
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My old friend Mike thought that the Talking Heads were the first to record “Take Me to the River”.
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When I first heard the intro to “Under Pressure” I thought it was a ripoff of “Ice Ice Baby.”
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I thought today’s was an excellent collection of funny stuff, especially the spare key and the plaque.
I had to look up the Squirrel Nut Zippers. They formed in 1993 and appear to be a group I would enjoy.
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That’s the theme of this creator’s videos: Younger guy plays a pop song… and then an older generation (or two) of the guy plays the original… or at least an older cover… or at least an antecedent:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4ME708-WtISIFQjwH2AfNQ
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Not just Squirrel Nut Zippers but old cartoons. There was a cartoon about a young skunk who was unlucky in love until he got himself a “Frankie” costume — Frank Sinatra — and sang “All Or Nothing At All” which must have been Frankie’s big hit at the time. When we think of Frank Sinatra we usually only think of his later songs like “New York” and “My Way”.
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Mark – My dad had an extensive record collection (33-1/3s, 45s and 78s) when I was growing up. My middle sister ended up with the collection after parents died (as she did with most things of parents’ things – and this is not a complaint, glad she wanted and had room for stuff, plus she has children to pass it along to in the future and we do not).
I grew up on Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, The Andrew sisters, Dinah Shore, and many of the other big bands and in general singers of the 1940s/50s.
As a child I thought that the song “Girl with Golden Braids” (Perry Como) was written about me as I had blond hair and mom put them in braids every day.
My family loved music of all sorts even though if others were around we tended to be listeners as none of us could/can carry tune. Dad also had an assortment of other music such as Gilbert and Sullivan and so on. Husband grew up with the same big band music – but in his family his dad played it rather than hearing it on records. Husband has learned to smile and not try to correct my singing as he has learned I am tone deaf. (One of his really nice points among so many others is putting up with my singing – we may not have been able to carry a tune – but we all did sing enthusiastically.
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There was also a speed of 16 RPM, used mostly for spoken-word records. It provided longer playing time in exchange for reduced treble accuracy.
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One of things (among many) that I learned from Mat “Techmoan” Taylor was that playing 78s is not just a matter of RPMs. Even though many turntables supported the speed, if you played the records with a regular cartridge they would sound bad. You need a special, larger, stylus.
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I have my Dad’s record collection now, along with many others I have collected. Dad particularly loved jazz and enjoyed classical too. So I have lots of 78’s, and I have a turntable that can play all three speeds, 33, 45 and 78 (16 rpm being very rare, as few of those records were intended for the consumer market).
Back in the 1960’s, Phyllis Diller said “I was just named Miss Phonograph Record of 1962 because my measurements are 33-45-78.”
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There’s a young woman who has been posting on Facebook (that’s where I have seen her, anyway, even if she may have other media presence) with short video clips that usually begin ‘Welcome to another day of listening to my late father’s record collection’. Profile at https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61573973687907
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Here she is reacting to Dylan’s Hard Rain album, playing an excerpt of “Idiot Wind”, and saying some very intelligent things.
BTW my favorite off that album is “Shelter from the Storm”. Here’s a link to a video clip from that concert. https://youtu.be/12rUOLtbQDk?si=eJNcIs8rKXX-yyeB
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