Additional post for the 4th
Sunday, 6. July 2008, 07:39:18
Well I meant to post this the other day but it took forever to locate it and then the old crash-happy 'puter was giving me no end of trouble when I was trying to clean the audio up a bit. Anyway, I have this old 2 record set from 1978 I believe, called Goofy Gold. Its one of those great records full of goofy novelty songs. I'd post a pic of the cover but I was unable to locate one via web searches and I can't make one myself because we don't seem to have the record sleeve anymore - which is why I had trouble finding the records. After hours of looking everywhere it wasn't, I discovered someone had both records jammed in with the Funnybone record.
Amongst all the usual tracks you tend to find on such compilations, it has a track with Johnny Horton's 1959 recording of Arkansas history teacher Jimmy Driftwood's 'Battle of New Orleans.' Which of course seems like a great idea for the 4th of July, right? I hope everyone who survived the fire hazards and explosions and didn't blow their hand off holding a M-80 will still be in the mood for this 2 days later.
[The Battle of New Orleans]
Interestingly, this song - which went to number one in the US on both the pop and country charts - actually reached number 16 on the British charts despite the BBC banning the song. (Because of the lyrics 'the bloody British.')
