STAN FREBERG - 'The Great Pretender' + 'The Quest For Bridey Hammerschlaugen' - 78rpm 1956

Stan says Platters Schmatters, and is joined by June Foray on the flip

Category:

Comedy

Tags:

• 50's
• Comedy
• Stan
• Freberg
• The
• Great
• Pretender
• Quest
• For
• Bridey
• Hammerschlaugen
• Funny
• Spoof
• 1956
• 78rpm

[wpl955g]

RE veryfussy's point: You could argue that Elvis wasn't deserving of silly satire and that Freberg missed the point too. Either eveyrthing is open to parody and/or satire or nothing is. This is an astute parody ('You scared me, don't do that!') and better satire: the ideological battle between jazz and rock (plink-plink-plink vs Garner/Shearing, the compression of improvisation to uniformity), everything returning to marketability, money & selling records, as per Sh-Boom. Brilliant.

[VeryRustyDay]

You scared me, don't do that

[boredandwise]

this shit is hilarious ahhahahaa

[CrisVangel1958]

So kool!

[hikaruandkitty]

slow down, dont stop me know im getting to wear i like it

[hikaruandkitty]

... and im getting a new piano man, that's fine with meeeeeeee

[GrizzledGeezer]

@veryfussy... "The banality of the accompaniment was the chief target of the satire." Exactly. "The Great Pretender" might not be "Die Schone Mullerin", but it's an excellent song. It's hard to believe the writers weren't themselves doing a conscious send-up.

[dcbeegee]

slow down...retard!!!



[merle572]

My old man had most of Stan's albums." You play that Kling Kling Jazz, or you wont get paid tonight" LOL!!!!!!!

[MsBkirk]

This is the reason I can't take the straight version by the Platters seriously! I'm with wmbrown in believing Freberg was sending up the recording of the songs (as later depicted on the Beatles' 'Let It Be' and Neal Morse's sillier interjections on the Transatlantic bonus material).

[wmbrown6]

The thing about Freberg's parodies was, very early in my life, having been reared on The Beatles' "Let It Be" album, I thought Freberg was approximating/depicting outtakes of the songs in question. In any case, this is one track where I prefer Freberg's take to the originals. (Others: "Heartbreak Hotel," "The Banana Boat Song," "The Yellow Rose of Texas.") Oh, and since this was mentioned - yes, the voice of the pianist does resemble Freberg's more than Leeds', now that I hear it.

[palexandersquires]

My Hand is fallling off here I`ve got the same chords all the way through the song!