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Greg - 2006-10-05 06:17:38
Sooo... I guess we're not going to see your review of Hayseed Dixie, the Hillbilly Tribute to ACDC, off this new release list? Really, having heard Metallica, Black Sabbath and pretty much all the hillbilly covers done by Bad Livers, The Gourds, Psychograss etc., the only one I've heard that really stands up as more than novelty is The Gourds cover of Gin & Juice. It rawks!!! Will probably pick up the RH at lunch today.
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Baby Party - 2006-10-05 08:09:48
Wow, I never really knew the words to Glow Worm. They are a revelation!

I do recall that Glow Worm has a really bad harmonica solo, though.
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Paula - 2006-10-05 08:46:34
Hmm, no harmonica on the version I have, but maybe on "Paper Doll"? Or some other version?
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Paula - 2006-10-05 08:59:02
Greg, it never occurred to me that "Hayseed Dixie" was a pun til now. Yeeouch!
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Tom Ronca - 2006-10-05 10:25:03
A former college room-mate (and close friend of yours) introduced me to the Mills Bros., and I've loved them ever since -- dictionaries should come a small sample of their music, automatically triggered to play whenever anyone looks up the word "catchy"...
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Paula - 2006-10-05 13:33:58
Tom: agreed! And their harmonies are spine-tinglin'.

The Carino family had a Mills Brothers album that dated back to their actual heydey, courtesy of my mom. We played the hell out of that disc, til it finally cracked. It was made out of, like, slate, or whatever they used to make LPs out of.
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2fs - 2006-10-05 22:55:08
Those lyrics sound kinda like something Stephin Merritt would write after a whole lotta Prozac. And I mean that in a good way.
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Chris - 2006-10-05 23:03:30
The mills brothers show up in a few looney tunes cartoons. The most infamous is in "The Isle of Pingo Pongo" one the Tex Avery cartoons banned from syndication. Also there is a great bugs bunny rendition of Nagasaki.
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jon - 2006-10-06 10:28:47
Paula, if you ever get a chance to hear Mel Torme's Christmas album (which I highly recommend to fans of holiday music), he adds some cute seasonal verses to "Glow Worm". I can't remember all of them, but this couplet sticks in my mind: "Your light in the sky is apropos/So glow, little glow worm, glow".
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