Good evening folks. Hope you enjoyed Emu’s selections the previous week. There is a link for all the songs this week so get your thinking caps on and perhaps you too can become a member of the Order of the Golden Emu.
To the music, STAT!
Bonus question. Guess the 3 performers I have seen in concert.
Did you ever announce which group from two weeks ago you saw live?
Emu passed that on but if you missed it it was “Popa Chubby”.
OK, I’ve popped one – now what?
Zoom call Toobin.
Ooh! Ooh! I know! All written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, the duo who penned every single song in the 1950s and most songs from the 1960s.
I’ve had a near brush with fame/notoriety involving them. I heard a song that Vince Vance and the Valiants put out during the Iraq War, “Bomb Iraq,” to the tune of a song written by Leiber & Stoller, “Yakety Yak.” I made a cartoon animation of Bomb Iraq, and wanted to post it. So, I wrote to Mr. Vance (Andy Stone), and asked him if I could. He loved it, gave the go-ahead. I posted it on my site, got nearly half a million views (this was before YouTube). Didn’t know how to make money with ads, and had to pay a crapload to my ISP. A few months later, I got an email from the attorneys for Leiber & Stoller, asking if I’d heard from Vince Vance, because they had ordered him to take down the video and song because it was their intellectual property, and didn’t appreciate it. No, I hadn’t heard from him. I explained the situation, got a little testy with the attorney, who essentially told me, “Stop calling it a parody!” (parodies are protected under fair use) Anyway, I complied. So the video now rests on my hard drive.
Damn attorneys just have no sense of humor.
You have been awarded the Order of the Golden Emu Sir!
I’d like to thank the emu academy…
A great blues man… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdoDx4c-phk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ganf29W4xGM
More blues… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J46sRuj99Cw
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NqfiLJdVE8
Lets not forget the ladies…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGEjbJkxFhs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SrR09LJaf5Y
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fa9nN3G2CSg
Don’t forget, it’s almost Halloween…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0QTr1nL8HM
We will, of course, be celebrating.
I have a YouTube Halloween party playlist with about 50 vids if you need some suggestions. I think I shared it on the Halloween open thread last year.
Not that you need assistance. You do a bang-up job on the Midnight Special and Hootenanny.
Under the about/contact tab you can email me any suggestions. Always appreciated if I remember to read my email.
Were all of these used as movie titles? I thought “Love Potion Number 9” with Sandra Bullock was fun, eg.