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Friday, March 24, 2006

 

A touching tale of a boy, a clown and the snake down his pants

A Braindead Shithead Exclusive!
There's a bit of a story behind this. Some of you might remember I posted what has to be my favorite parody/tribute song of all time a while back, Beware of Sleestak by a band called Tastes Like Chicken. At the time I noted that I didn't even know if TLC was still in existence. It turns out they are! Not too long after I posted that tune, Jacques from TLC contacted me to point me to their (soon to be) new website -- Tastes Like Music.

Well, we've exchanged a couple of e-mails since then, and as it turns out Jacques and I are both from the Albany, NY area. So Jacques e-mailed me the other night and asked if I wanted to preview their new song. Of course I did! The upshot of all this is I have a brand new, never-before-released Tastes Like Chicken song to post. It's called Willie Whistle and it's a sweet little tune about a Boston area clown that used to be on in between all the good cartoons on the local cable system. Here's what Jacques has to say:

'Ol Willie used to do remote broadcasts from around the community and he did one show from some zoo. Willie was holding this really large snake and wouldn't you know the thing slithered right down his rainbow suspenders and into his pants. You could see the snake moving around in there and all Willie could do was giggle!

So there's my crappy little introduction and now the tune. I added Beware of Sleestak back into the playlist below just so we could make this a mini-set of Tastes Like Chicken. Hope you like it.


When I was a boy there was a man
Who bent and shaped me into what I am
I was young and full of dreams
And I had a friend on the TV screen.

Before school each and every day
I would tune in and hear him say
— indecipherable squeaking noise —
At one time that meant something to me
'Ol Willie Whistle

His big red nose made me laugh
And those shoes size twenty-five and a half
Red suspenders and matching red hair of course
What a sight he was as he introduced G-Force

And on the air he would read
Letters he received
He'd show pictures that kids drew
We all tried to get through
But my friend John was the lucky one

On a Tuesday morning Willie showed the work that John had done
A full color portrait
Better than a VanGough
of the coolest space ship ever
The Starship Argo

Willie Whistle (where are you now)

He kept on smiling
Under any circumstance
Even when a python started slithering down his pants
Was his smile real or was it painted on
Either way it gave me hope
to carry on

Sometimes late at night
I sneak down the stairs
I turn on 38
But he's not there
Where he is now no one knows
all we're left with
is the memory of his shows
'Ol Willie Whistle (where are you now)


Comments:
Outstanding! Another epic by Tastes Like Chicken. I will definitely have to check out your website.

And great job, tng! Our first exclusive. Nicely done.
 
You're welcome but thanks go to Jacques and the other members of Tastes Like Chicken. Hopefully they'll keep us supplied with other TLC as it becomes available.
 
That is too cool.
That's all I've got to say.
 
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