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@mrgb46 Oh FFS, I'm just taking the piss. But he DID have the Buddy Holly specs, though; anyone who can look at the young EC and say it didn't remotely look like he was doing a punk-era Buddy Holly look is just plain ignorant of what's in front of them.

@Marchjoy1963 Well, yeah, that was the immediate reason for the song, but it wouldn't have resonated as it did if the lyrics didn't admit of a more universal interpretation. Linda and Whitney didn't have any professional connection to Porter Wagoner, right?

Jesus looked like Jim Caviezel with brown contact lenses, and that's the end of it. OK?

Well, of course he's a hero. He's Jesus Christ. And of course the little guy's weird. He's the grown-up Pee Wee Herman. And before you get bent all outta shape, I watch the show every Thursday night at 9PM and love it to death. I'm talking about how the show was cast, not the plot, which is ...

@SENBIE It was also on in the late 60's, about a year after first air in the UK. They hadn't lined up a distributor for North America before production, and had to shop a finished product. It was a Kiddie show, on at about 5 PM or so in those markets where it aired.

Sounds like something you'd hear during a pitching replacement at the old ballgame, like the way they use the Final Jeopardy music during instant replays at NBA or NHL games.

Bobby Fuller fought the Mob, and the Mob won...

@LiddyW Actually, it's said that the "American" accent is how the "British" themselves spoke, at the time they came to whatever particular colony, and the accents we think of as "British" today only developed in Regency and Victorian times. (For this purpose "British" also refers to Scottish and...

John looked like a porn star with that moustache-- at last we got a chance to see what he really looked like (albeit with a little face lift, it looks like...).

@SeventiesMania Actually I was thinking of early 80's like Joe Jackson, "Stepping Out" and that sort of 80's; Gary's other work like "Green Grass" or "Count Me In" is more on point. Get back to me on that if you agree.

@kantoleader thanx mate.

Them Boers don't take no shit!

@TheSkunkman420 Oh, I don't know, maybe the fact that they thought they were a separate country for a few years there might have prompted them to have their own anthem, which, by the way, was "The Bonnie Blue Flag," not "Dixie" (which was more a "fightin' song").

@1234TheDMAN YEAH! That's what they used to say in the old Kayfabe days! Those days rocked! When it was all "faces" and "heels", "managers", "girlfriends" and people in different parts of the country saw wrestlers different from other parts. McMahon screwed it up, and it's not cheesy-funny a...

@fanchbrezoneg Obviously, on the soundtrack; my reference was to the visual look of the players doing the "playing." Are you unfamiliar with the people I cited, or do you have Asperger's, like the banjo boy?

@TheBabyboomkidof53 Once more unto the breach: OK they were older-looking, but not like these fellows; this link is a piss-take at all the Four Freshmen/Lettermen-style groups who were around long after their college days:

youtube.com/watch?=dqwN1-dJFmk

RIP Bill and Barry. Like your Mom, gone too young.

@Shadowkeeper1111 But just as in Gunga Din, it makes for better theatre if the British soldiers (or Commonwealth troops, as here) arrive to the sound of pipes. Half the Johnny Canucks were probably of Scottish descent anyway, since Canadians as a whole are, it seems like!

Can you do it in French?

@Anthony299 1954, I believe; sometime around then, in any event.

Guess how much Drew used to weigh back then. And the one who comes closest, without going over, wins the showcase!

Sounds like it's being sung in a smoky bar in Rio de Janeiro by Astrud Gilberto, or some bossa nova singer from the 60's; it's an ANTHEM, not a torch song!

@kudlow39 Little Jim Ed Brown should be praying for guidance from above, and not ordering the next round...

You know, ol' George DID do a song about who was going to fill the "classic" singers' shoes-- and then people dump on Josh Turner for trying, however short of the mark you might think he is, to keep George Jones's flame burning bright with this very good rendition. Is it George's version? No. Is...

@9bahai9 Oddly enough, Mel Gibson took the opposite tack. Jim Caviezel wore contact lenses to turn his blue eyes brown to more closely approximate what Jesus must have looked like, as well as an appliance to make his already-somewhat-aquiline nose a bit larger. Fortunately for Gibson, Caviezel'...

Yeah, but Jim Caviezel got the last laugh-- now he kicks everyone's ass on his TV series Person Of Interest. Love to see a montage of his best beatings set to Yakety Sax-- now that really WOULD kick ass!

Something tells me Benny Hill would approve.

#1 Jukebox hit of all time? Hands down. Not even close. I don't think I ever saw a box, in my drinking days, that DIDN'T have this song on it, and it sure got played often enough. It's the all-time-crying-in-your-beer song, so no wonder it would be the #1 jukebox hit-- every guy who ever got ...

@MrRogerdb Hopefully your relationship wasn't with someone who had you on the side; that would have been even harder for him to admit. BTW this song is pretty universal-- everyone's had someone it seems they couldn't spend enough time with because of outside considerations.

@Knight192 "You could look it up," as the expression goes; the wikipedia article on Paul Teutel Sr has that info.

Bejayzus! 'Tis a foine Oirish colleen she is and Oi'll shellack ye wit' me shillelagh if ye say otherwoise! Now how's about ye boy me a shot o' Bushmill's and we'll be forgettin' all about it now, me boyo! Oh Danny boy, the pipes the pipes are callin'...ye will boy me that potcheen now, won't ye?

Shoulda been the halftime show at the NFL London game! Or the FA Cup, for that matter, could use something like this as the pregame show!

Has a Freddy "Boom Boom" Cannon feel to it, oddly enough. Del didn't have to sound like anyone else, but here he does; not that that's necessarily a bad thing, but I do think he was better than Freddy Cannon IMHO.

A "heavenly choir" with a fuzz guitar-- it SHOULDN'T have worked, but by God it did! Whatever else you might think of Richard Carpenter, with this record if not any others he entered the ranks of classic record producer. Of course, having Karen do the song couldn't hurt!

In a strange way, I think this song sounds like a parody of Billy Joel. I know that Billy Joel was not really a caricature yet, in 1977, but this song sort of presages that.

@naughtykitten28 "Francesco Castellucio" ain't a Swedish name. His parents probably came from Italy or else his grandparents did.

1:05 Mike Love channeling his inner Max Headroom (for all those who remember the 1980's)

It's actually kind of funny and silly at the same time, and creepy too. Far from the worst thing he ever did, and far from the worst imagining of a Lennon-McCartney song. Just because it's a little off the reservation, people don't know what to make of it!

That's Austin Powers in disguise, baby!

Up until the 1960's she probably could have worked as a VO artist, dubbing the actresses who couldn't sing, for movie musicals. It wouldn't have mattered a rat's ass what she looked liked. But they stopped making those musicals when Susan was a child, and there was no career path for her and he...

Land of hope and glory, mother of the free!

How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee?

Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set!

God Who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet,

God Who made thee mighty make thee mightier yet!

Hail Caesar! We who are about to die laughing salute you!

This sure as shit ain't NASCAR, and that's a GOOD thing! I mean, do they EVER have "Caution" laps? Doesn't look like it! Dale Earnhardt and Richard Petty would have really had to earn their championships if they raced like this! Keep beatin' an' bangin', boys-- Boogetty Booggetty Booggetty! ...

@96wordpass How's about Joe Jackson, "Stepping Out"? Think about it.

@Mevarit Actually, it's probably a modern recording by whatever incarnation of Glenn's band is out there, most likely; I can't believe the original "cleans up" this well. In any event, it gives me a better idea of what Glenn Miller sounded like live, as I wasn't around then, so I do like this re...