#26
It's been getting near one solid month of this nonsense for Spring 2018.
This is a friendly reminder that Summer is coming.
The equinox is on June 21.
And then we'll be done with this.
But until then let us continue...
April 1954 - RCA 47-5708 - Crazy Mixed Up Song / That Tired Run Down Feeling
Sixty four years ago this original chicken nugget of brilliance and nonsense "Crazy Mixed Up Song" was recorded by Homer and Jethro and subsequiently slipped past the arbiters of taste and logic to be released upon an unsuspecting public. It appears that then popular stars of stage and TV, Mary Healy & her husband Peter Lind Hayes may have the first recording but I think that Homer and Jethro best it on many levels.
On the flip is an original song just for the boys which I relate to ever more as middle age takes its toll on my being.
October 1954 - RCA 47-5867 - Hey There / They Were Doin' the Mambo
A side is a take on "Hey There" from the Pajama Game which was a huge smash on Broadway in 1954. Rosemary Clooney released the pop hit version most associated with it many years before she was reduced to shilling for paper towels to make ends meet.
This is another of the songs that endeared me to Homer and Jethro, lo those many years ago and still makes me giggle. It's pretty damn funny.
B side - So in the middle of the 50's the United States got swept up in a craze for the seductive Latin Rhythm of the Mambo. Less forbidden than the Lambada and more physically demanding than the Macarena, Mambo Mania crisscrossed the country and made temporary stars of folks like Perez Prado (with the original "Mambo No. 5") {At some point I'm going to digitize by collection of Perez Prado Lps. Forewarned is forearmed. Isn't that how the phrase goes?)
Not being ones to sit on the sidelines H & J quickly jumped on that bandwagon to cash in with their keen powers of observation to note the number of folks caught up in the fad and watched the royalty checks dribble in.
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