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- From: dan@cafws2.eng.uci.edu (Dan Harkless)
- Subject: Re: worst song & lyrics
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- Organization: University of California, Irvine
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- Date: 20 Nov 92 01:56:20 GMT
- References: <1992Nov19.032702.9254@leland.Stanford.EDU> <19NOV199209082797@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> <1egmh7INN44g@fido.asd.sgi.com>
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- In article <1egmh7INN44g@fido.asd.sgi.com> leej@sgi.com (Lee Jones) writes:
- >In article <19NOV199209082797@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov> isaacman@stars.gsfc.nasa.gov (Subvert the Dominant Paradigm! (301) 513-7769) writes:
- >>
- >> "Timothy, Timothy, where on Earth did you go?
- >> Timothy, Timothy, God what don't I know?"
- >>
- >>Anybody else out there remember this tender ballad?
- >
- >Watch out, triva buffs. The song came out around '71, by a band called the
- >"Buoys", on an album called "Dinner Music". They were, not surprisingly,
- >a one-hit wonder. Actually, I *enjoyed* the song - it had a beat, you could
- >dance to it.
- >
- >I think when DB is talking about worst songs, he's thinking of the really
- >*insipid* stuff such as "Billy don't be a hero", "Seasons in the Sun",
- >"Muskrat Love", etc.
- >
- >I mean, he probably *LOVES* Timothy, and (my personal fave) "The Fish-head
- >Song" by Barnes and Barnes: "Fish heads, Fish heads, roly-poly Fish heads.
- >Fish heads Fish heads, eat them up, yum."
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- Speaking of trivia, I heard a while back on alt.tv.twin-peaks that
- Barnes and Barnes was made up of none other than Bill Mumy, little Will
- Robinson on TV's Lost In Space, and Miguel Ferrer, of Twin Peaks, Robocop, etc.
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