Hey man, like it's #32, man.
Whoa! that's so heavy, dude.
Yeah, it is.
That's like, so much to lay on somebody on 4/20, which is like totally today, man.
Yeah, it is. Fuck.
January 1955 - RCA EPA-716 - This is a Wife?
It's another four song elongated player of lovely ridiculousness.
1. "What is a Wife?" This is an interesting one because it is a take off of another comedy record, this time by well known stick in the mud and kind of dick, Steve Allen, which isn't nearly as funny as
Homer & Jethro's version because you actually get some sense that he at least in part believed it.
2. "What is a Husband?" on the flip of the preceding source material and continues with the nonsense of the first and performed by Steve Allen's actual wife, Jayne Meadows which feels just as kind of mean spirited as the other one. (and I'm also pretty sure that there wasn't a lady alive who ever looked across a bed in the morning and found Liberace there.) Homer & Jethro poke just as much fun at themselves. Point to H&J.
3. "Love and Marriage" long before it was ruined for a couple generations as the theme song to "Married with Children" Frank Sinatra introduced the world to the mythic joys of matrimony with this Sammy Kahn/Jimmy van Huesen classic.
H & J present the harsh realities in their recording.
4. "Sixteen Tons" so while most folks may be familiar with the hit 1955 Tennessee Ernie Ford version, the song was first recorded by the great Merle Travis in 1947 (which has some good exposition explaining some of the song's lyrics.)
Homer and Jethro just take it and run with it but the peapickers sing the words all wrong.
Another favorite for me.
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