"Baby Carriers: A Cultural History"

At my kinder, gentler, blog.

Also featuring Telly Savalas Looks at Birmingham [England]; Men's Long Hair Hyperboard; and The Ketchup Song, from the Tallinna Saksa Gümnaasium [Estonia].

Any Major Dude Will Tell You

Steely Dan, 1996. They couldn't (or wouldn't) capture that sweet acoustic opening, but it's a great version nonetheless. (I don't know if there are other version floating around of this, but this has been on Youtube only since November of 2007, and it's only been viewed just over a thousand times.)



Lyrics:

I never seen you looking so bad my funky one
You tell me that your superfine mind has come undone

CHORUS:
Any major dude with half a heart surely will tell you my friend
Any minor world that breaks apart falls together again
When the demon is at your door
In the morning it won't be there no more
Any major dude will tell you

Have you ever seen a squonk's tears? Well, look at mine
The people on the street have all seen better times

CHORUS

I can tell you all I know, the where to go, the what to do
You can try to run but you can't hide from what's inside of you

CHORUS

Squonk.

"That's How I Got to Memphis"

Couldn't find Tom T. Hall doing this song on YouTube, so we're going to have to make do with this Nahsvillified guy doing this great song. Heard it this morning on a rare, in my experience, anyway, country music station, KRRM, the "Cream of Country."

The Sexual Harassment Opera: Starring Bill O'Reilly

Via the good folks at C&L, sit back and have a laugh:

Come and Get Your Wounded Knee

You're probably familiar with the band Redbone and the 1974 song "Come and Get Your Love." Big, simple, fun song, and a big hit in the U.S. All the members of the band, built around brothers Pat and Lolly Vegas, had Native American heritage.



A year earlier, in 1973, they had another hit song - one that you probably don't remember: "We Were All Wounded at Wounded Knee.



In this 2004 interview Pat Vegas tells how the song was basically banned in the U.S., and how it became a #1 hit in Europe.