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His songs are laden with drug references. The reefer man comes to mind immediately, but even supposedly innocent songs like Minnie the Moocher are shot through with references to cocaine abuse and opium smoking. Won't somebody please think of the children and protect them from this horrible old music? Kids should listen to modern, wholsome music, like Korn or Britney Spears, which don't push the evils of drug use.

His songs are laden with drug references. The reefer man comes to mind immediately, but even supposedly innocent songs like Minnie the Moocher are shot through with references to cocaine abuse and opium smoking. Won't somebody please think of the children and protect them from this horrible old music? Kids should listen to modern, wholsome music, like Korn or Britney Spears, which don't push the evils of drug use.


Yeah- just what do you think he meant by "hidey, hidey, hidey-ho" ?

I dont want my kids growing up on that lascivious smut!

I wouldn't let my kids listen to either Cab or Brittney.

not that I have to stop them or anything, my kids were born with great taste in music.

His songs are laden with drug references. The reefer man comes to mind immediately, but even supposedly innocent songs like Minnie the Moocher are shot through with references to cocaine abuse and opium smoking. Won't somebody please think of the children and protect them from this horrible old music? Kids should listen to modern, wholsome music, like Korn or Britney Spears, which don't push the evils of drug use.
They shouldn't be reading JK Rowling either: did you know that "Muggles" is a jazz term for the evil weed?

Wasn't he in the movie The Blues Brothers?

Wasn't he in the movie The Blues Brothers?

Um...yeah...

Characters in The Lord of the Rings smoke "weed"...

Wasn't he in the movie The Blues Brothers?
Yep. He was a national treasure as far as I'm concerned.

Characters in The Lord of the Rings smoke "weed"...
Yeah, but do they take a certain mania want to give you Pennsylvania? If not they're not the reefer man.

Yep. He was a national treasure as far as I'm concerned.

Thought so. I liked him. He was cool.

Yeah, but do they take a certain mania want to give you Pennsylvania? If not they're not the reefer man.
IIRC, Saruman admonishes Gandalf for smoking the halfling's leaf - says it clouds his judgment. So I think that people in the Shire were growing the best buds in Middle Earth.

I think they have banned those Betty Boop cartoons he soundtracked, haven't they?

I think they have banned those Betty Boop cartoons he soundtracked, haven't they?
I know nothing of Betty Boop. Cab Calloway did the soundtrack? That's fucking great!

Children listen to Cab nowadays?

Truly, this must be some parrallell universe!

Wasn't he in the movie The Blues Brothers?

Yeah- one of the greatest movies of all time!

"Any unecessary violence used in the aprehension of the Blues Brotehrs has been approved".

Children listen to Cab nowadays?

Truly, this must be some parrallell universe!


Quite honestly. if I happened upon one of my kids listening to Cab Calloway on purpose, I would be a little concerned.

Quite honestly. if I happened upon one of my kids listening to Cab Calloway on purpose, I would be a little concerned.
Maybe, but I'd be sure to congratulate my kid on his taste in music. At least he listen to something else than top-40 pop.

Children listen to Cab nowadays?

Truly, this must be some parrallell universe!
I wish. Imagine a tricked out mitsubishi with a stereo that can render you sterile at 100 feet pulling next to you in traffic blasting "Is you is or is you ain't my baby". That would kick ass!

They shouldn't be reading JK Rowling either: did you know that "Muggles" is a jazz term for the evil weed?
Did you know that "Jazz" was a verb meaning "to screw?" :D

I wish. Imagine a tricked out mitsubishi with a stereo that can render you sterile at 100 feet pulling next to you in traffic blasting "Is you is or is you ain't my baby". That would kick ass!


I just saw the Tom & Jerry where Tom was singing that to some female cat.

I love that one!

my boys didnt seem interested in the song,though.

I wish. Imagine a tricked out mitsubishi with a stereo that can render you sterile at 100 feet pulling next to you in traffic blasting "Is you is or is you ain't my baby". That would kick ass!


When I was in college, I drove a 67 camaro RS, red. And I listened to Pavorotti and Tony Bennet. I used to drive down to the shore with it cranking.

Is that a similar scenario?

Yeah- one of the greatest movies of all time!

"Any unecessary violence used in the aprehension of the Blues Brotehrs has been approved".
Why, oh why did they ever try to ruin the Blues Brother's legacy with a sequel? WHY!!!???

I love Cab Calloway by the way...and I was introduced to him as a child watching him in that movie.

Did you know that "Jazz" was a verb meaning "to screw?" :D
Yep.
Mind you, so's rock & roll...

Don't forget, Minnie the Moocher wasn't just hopped up on coke and opium ("she took him down to Chinatown and taught him how to kick the gong around"), she was also a stripper ("she was a red hot hootchie-kootcher") and a prostitute. I believe the poor woman died tragically in a gunfight between her lover and her pimp. But "Minnie the Moocher" was a hit back when Americans were grown-ups.

You'll never see a song like that nowadays. Or cartoons like Bug Bunny et al. with all their bizarre cross-dressing games or the Woody Woodpecker one where Woody checks into a boarding house where the rules include "No loud music. No overnight guests. No opium smoking."

When I was in college, I drove a 67 camaro RS, red. And I listened to Pavorotti and Tony Bennet. I used to drive down to the shore with it cranking.

Is that a similar scenario?
I suppose. Did you blast "La Donna E Mobile" as loud as it would go while cruising the strip?

Don't forget, Minnie the Moocher wasn't just hopped up on coke and opium ("she took him down to Chinatown and taught him how to kick the gong around"), she was also a stripper ("she was a red hot hootchie-kootcher") and a prostitute. I believe the poor woman died tragically in a gunfight between her lover and her pimp. But "Minnie the Moocher" was a hit back when Americans were grown-ups.

You'll never see a song like that nowadays. Or cartoons like Bug Bunny et al. with all their bizarre cross-dressing games or the Woody Woodpecker one where Woody checks into a boarding house where the rules include "No loud music. No overnight guests. No opium smoking."
I've always loved Woody Woodpecker. Oh, although there is a fetishization (is that a word?) of youth, most Americans are still grown-ups.

Well, Wagner is anti-semitic, so let's ban him, too. And Skrewdriver and Prussian Blue, but let's not forget Wagner.

Did you know that "Jazz" was a verb meaning "to screw?" :D

As in, "Make sure that bolt is jazzed in nice and tight"?

Can you unjazz a jar lid too?

His songs are laden with drug references. The reefer man comes to mind immediately, but even supposedly innocent songs like Minnie the Moocher are shot through with references to cocaine abuse and opium smoking. Won't somebody please think of the children and protect them from this horrible old music? Kids should listen to modern, wholsome music, like Korn or Britney Spears, which don't push the evils of drug use.

OH MY GOD! Songs about drugs?!? :eek: OMG!!!

The World is Ending!!!!

:eek:

OH MY GOD! Songs about drugs?!? :eek: OMG!!!

The World is Ending!!!!

:eek:
Yes, but very slowly. I think it all started with the discovery of bronze. Do you know how many deaths that metal was responsible for?

if he trades you dimes for nickels
and calls watermelons 'pickles'
then you know you're talking to that reefer man...

it was down in Chinatown
All the smokies laid around
some were high and some were mighty low...

I think I know what album I'm buying for my kids this Christmas.

if he trades you dimes for nickels
and calls watermelons 'pickles'
then you know you're talking to that reefer man...

it was down in Chinatown
All the smokies laid around
some were high and some were mighty low...

I think I know what album I'm buying for my kids this Christmas.
Evil.

I wish. Imagine a tricked out mitsubishi with a stereo that can render you sterile at 100 feet pulling next to you in traffic blasting "Is you is or is you ain't my baby". That would kick ass!

Imagine? Hell ... just pull up next to me in traffic. The whole neighborhood knows I'll be home in 10 minutes when they start hearing Charlie Parker in their living rooms.

I've always loved Woody Woodpecker. Oh, although there is a fetishization (is that a word?) of youth, most Americans are still grown-ups.
Well, I hope the media, entertainment, and marketing industries realize that soon. I'm sick of all this sophomoric crap cluttering up my pop culture. When I look at love scenes and other stuff in movies today, I wonder, have any of these people ever done this in real life? So sad...

Imagine? Hell ... just pull up next to me in traffic. The whole neighborhood knows I'll be home in 10 minutes when they start hearing Charlie Parker in their living rooms.
Can I get a lift? :D

Why, oh why did they ever try to ruin the Blues Brother's legacy with a sequel? WHY!!!???


Please be advised that, per the Treaty of Los Angeles, it has been collectively agreed by humanity and ratified by the Gods that there was never any sequel to Blues Brothers. Its existence has been denied, disbelieved, and removed from the continuity of Reality, for the good of All. There was also never a sequel to Highlander (unless you count the TV show).

This is like saying that we shouldn't let our children listen to Nat King Cole - no kids are listening to Cab Calloway. I must say that I like him more now knowing all this.

Please be advised that, per the Treaty of Los Angeles, it has been collectively agreed by humanity and ratified by the Gods that there was never any sequel to Blues Brothers. Its existence has been denied, disbelieved, and removed from the continuity of Reality, for the good of All. There was also never a sequel to Highlander (unless you count the TV show).

Thank you! Had there been a Blues Brothers sequel, let's say that the Roseanne hubby was in place of Belushi, it would have been one of the worst pieces of crap ever. Thank the Gods!

Thank you! Had there been a Blues Brothers sequel, let's say that the Roseanne hubby was in place of Belushi, it would have been one of the worst pieces of crap ever. Thank the Gods!

Yeah, it still amazes me that Akroyd would agree to That Which Must Not Be Rented...

Can I get a lift? :D

Yes ... but I warn you ... it often "smells funny" in my car .... (shifty glance)

Okay, no shit-When I worked at a record store we had an upset father return a CD saying that his 12 year old was allowed to buy something that should have had a warning label on it, that we shouldn't sell that kind of thing to children. The album? Miles Davis' Sketches of Spain. Not kidding.

Did you know that "Jazz" was a verb meaning "to screw?" :D
As is often the case, that's only one of the stories of the word. It comes from the creole word 'Jass' (the first recording of jazz was "The Original Dixieland Jass Band") which is also 'to speed up.' As the stories go...

I just saw the Tom & Jerry where Tom was singing that to some female cat.

I love that one!

my boys didnt seem interested in the song,though.
That's actually a Loius Jordan song, a Cab contemporary.

When I was in college, I drove a 67 camaro RS, red. And I listened to Pavorotti and Tony Bennet. I used to drive down to the shore with it cranking.

Is that a similar scenario?
I drove a Malibu (Classic...sigh) that often pounded out Count Basie and The Dirty Dozen Brass Band...

Imagine? Hell ... just pull up next to me in traffic. The whole neighborhood knows I'll be home in 10 minutes when they start hearing Charlie Parker in their living rooms.
My VW is often blaring Eric Dolphy or Hammiet Bluiett. When I get gas every once in while I get someone saying "Shouldn't you be blasting The Dead or The Doors?" Though it's really not that out of place...

His songs are laden with drug references. The reefer man comes to mind immediately, but even supposedly innocent songs like Minnie the Moocher are shot through with references to cocaine abuse and opium smoking. Won't somebody please think of the children and protect them from this horrible old music? Kids should listen to modern, wholsome music, like Korn or Britney Spears, which don't push the evils of drug use.

Kids should also be kept away from the sex and violence inherent in Opera (e.g., Der Ring des Nibelungen) and classical music (1812 Oveture, Ravel's Bolero).

Whatever happened to good clean music like the 50's Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife (http://www.bobbydarin.net/macklyrics.html)?

Whatever happened to good clean music like the 50's Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife (http://www.bobbydarin.net/macklyrics.html)?
Kurt Weill and Betoldt Brecht, but sung by Darin-which amuses me that Brecht and Weill have that little in on popular culture...

EDIT: D'oh, music and theater nerd display...looks like I'll have to surrender my lunch money...

I loved Cab. He was a breath of fresh air.

Kurt Weill and Betoldt Brecht, but sung by Darin-which amuses me that Brecht and Weill have that little in on popular culture...

EDIT: D'oh, music and theater nerd display...looks like I'll have to surrender my lunch money...

Actually the Darin version changed the lyrics a little. I like the Kurt Weill version better.

I love the Lost in the Stars (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002GH2/qid=1134093197/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-9968093-3723102?v=glance&s=classical) album and Sting's version of Mack the Knife.

Actually the Darin version changed the lyrics a little. I like the Kurt Weill version better.

I love the Lost in the Stars (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000002GH2/qid=1134093197/sr=1-3/ref=sr_1_3/104-9968093-3723102?v=glance&s=classical) album and Sting's version of Mack the Knife.
Dinged by my own innattentivness to lyrics. (dispite my earlier defense of lyricist Time Rice). I haven't heard that album, might have to check it out-though sometimes I'm leary of those kind of things...

His songs are laden with drug references. The reefer man comes to mind immediately, but even supposedly innocent songs like Minnie the Moocher are shot through with references to cocaine abuse and opium smoking. Won't somebody please think of the children and protect them from this horrible old music? Kids should listen to modern, wholsome music, like Korn or Britney Spears, which don't push the evils of drug use.
My 10yr old son doesn't listen to that music. He listens to Howard Stern instead. No hidden meanings there!:D

Yes ... but I warn you ... it often "smells funny" in my car .... (shifty glance)
I would expect it to, if you're blasting Bird out the windows.

Whatever happened to good clean music like the 50's Bobby Darin's Mack the Knife (http://www.bobbydarin.net/macklyrics.html)?

When westlife released their version of that song every dead musician ever exploded in their graves.

I despise westlife.
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