Mild Mannered Reporter

Mild Mannered Reporter 3:40 -- Denis Farley, Pouring Rain Music BMI

Recorded 1987 at Natural Sound, North Miami, FL; Tom Anthony - engineer; Harry Morgan - acoustic guitar; Denis - vocals & harmonica.

It's a horned rim point of view
it's over easy and it's hot and new
the deadline daily banter
of a mild mannered reporter

it's really extra if you can read all about it
some folks they're gonna shout it
over those strobe lit droning tools
and all the mild mannered rules
mild mannered reporter

but just around the corner
is a phone booth transporter
and when superman beams on his clothes
tell me who else really knows . . .
when superman beams on his clothes
tell me who else really knows . . . the story, I said the story

the political scene is such a horror
hollywood stews they'll wait for tomorrow
you putting your stock in the sports pages
in the center with all those sages
mild mannered reporter

but just around the corner
is a phone booth transporter
and when superman beams on his clothes
tell me who else really knows . . .
when superman beams on his clothes
tell me who else really knows . . . the story, the glory

oh that mild mannered reporter, yeah

Harry Morgan is the son of a banjo picker and songwriter that spent a good deal of his professional life working for the Spike Jones Orchestra. Harry's mom was the MC of the show and the whole family traveled by rail with the band when on tour. It was the Swing Era and before the days of the jet set. I met Harry in Coconut Grove, FL at a funky music store on Bird Avenue. Harry's reputation proceeded him and I was thrilled to see him picking in the store that day. I couldn't help being kind of hypmotized by his fret work. His fingers seemed to be moving in slow motion, and yet the tune was not slow. Harry was a Neil Young aficionado and knew more Young songs than anyone I ever heard besides Neil Young himself. One day I took Fuzzy Samuel, who had played bass for Neil on the CSN&Y 4 Way Street Album to see Harry play at a gig we did regularly at a oconut Grove cafe. Fuzz came away from that experience mumbling one of his singular phrases, to the effect that some people can play Neil Young better than Neil.

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