Sunday Night Music Byte

The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian rock group, The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The Last Waltz was advertised as the end of The Band’s illustrious touring career, and the concert saw The Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood and Neil Young.

The Band was a  group active from 1967 to 1976. The original group (1967-1976) consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson (guitar, piano, vocals); Richard ManuelGarth Hudson (organ, piano, clavinet, accordion, synthesizer, saxophone); and Rick Danko (bass guitar, violin, trombone, vocals), and one American, Levon Helm (drums, mandolin, guitar, bass guitar, vocals). (piano, harmonica, drums, saxophone, organ, vocals);

The members of the Band first came together as they joined rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins’ backing group, The Hawks, one by one between 1958 and 1963. Upon leaving Hawkins in 1964 they were known as The Levon Helm Sextet (the sixth member being sax player Jerry Penfound), then Levon and the Hawks (without Penfound). In 1965, they released a single on Ware Records under the name the Canadian Squires, but returned as Levon and the Hawks for a recording session for Atco later in 1965. At about the same time, Bob Dylan recruited Helm and Robertson for two concerts, then the entire group for his U.S. tour in 1965 and world tour in 1966. They also joined him on the informal recordings that later became The Basement Tapes.

Because they were always “the band” to various frontmen, Helm said the name “The Band” worked well when the group came into its own and left Saugerties, New York, to begin recording their own material. They recorded two of the most acclaimed albums of the late 1960s: their 1968 debut Music from Big Pink (featuring the single “The Weight”) and 1969’s The Band. They broke up in 1976, but reformed in 1983 without founding guitarist Robbie Robertson.

Tonight’s music byte features Van “the Man” Morrison singing an inspired version of his mega-hit “Caravan” at the concert while being backed up by The Band. This is a terrific performance. You gotta love his 1970′s era maroon leisure suit. Watch the members of The Band closely. It is evident that they are having an absolute blast playing with Morrison. Finally, watch Morrison leave the stage before the number is finished in typical (for him) “ego inflated” style. Have fun watching this one.

Sunday Morning Coffee (or Tea) – 10

BREAKING NEWS:  Orly Taitz, the dentist, real estate agent and attorney has had another of her “birther” lawsuits dismissed. Judge Clay Land of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Georgia has dismissed Connie Rhodes vs. Thomas D. Macdonald which sought to prove that President Barack Obama is not a natural born American citizen. Additionally, the court deemed the case to be frivolous and threatened Taitz with sanctions should she commence another such action in his court. Let’s hear it for the judge.

THIS JUST IN:  Fox News has embarrassed itself once again. This week the Republican voicebox network took out newspaper ads the subject of which was last week’s crazy Tea-Bagger march in Washington D.C. The ads stated, “How did, ABC, CBS, NBC, MSNBC, and CNN miss this story?” Problem is, nobody missed it. All of the major networks covered the event. Fox News simply cannot be trusted to tell the truth. Now Fox, go wash your mouth out with soap.

BREAKING NEWS:  Rush Limbaugh has just jumped back aboard the racism bus. In fact, he now claims that America should go back to racially segregated buses. Speaking about an incident last week in which a white boy was beaten by black boys while on a bus Limbaugh said, “I think the guy’s wrong.  I think not only it was racism, it was justifiable racism. I mean, that’s the lesson we’re being taught here today. Kid shouldn’t have been on the bus anyway. We need segregated buses — it was invading space and stuff. This is Obama’s America.” Do I see an advertiser boycott coming?

THIS JUST IN:  Tammy Bruce was on The O’Reilly Factor last week and said, “But ultimately, it comes down to his inability to govern, and the fact that he seems to have, it seems to me, some malevolence toward this country, which is unabated.” Honestly, Where does Fox find these morons?

BREAKING NEWS:  A Kentucky high school football coach used a school bus to transport 9 of his players to his Baptist Church to be baptized without seeking consent of their parents. The school district took no action because it insisted the trip was voluntary. Now, there is a case of separation of church and state for you. I wonder what that particular school district’s position was concerning Barack Obama’s speech to school children last week?

THIS JUST IN:  A panel of three federal appellate judges, all Republican appointees, has ruled that U.S. citizens who were held without charge during post-9/11 terror investigations can sue then-Attorney General John Ascroft for unlawful imprisonment. The Court ruled that Ashcroft violated the right s of citizens held on material-witness warrants when the government lacked probable cause to arrest them. The Court sai the detention policy was, “repugnant to the Constitution.” Will Fox News‘ Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck report about and condemn these actual U.S. internment camps or will they continue to simply fabricate a rumor that Obama wants internment camps?

BREAKING NEWS:  CNN reports, ” Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee won the Values Voter Summit’s 2012 presidential straw poll Saturday, grabbing nearly 29 percent of the vote in a crowded field.Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and Indiana Rep. Mike Pence each won roughly 12 percent of the 597 votes cast.” See the rest of the story, here. Poor Sarah Palin.

THIS JUST IN: The $ 63,500.00 question is, “Who is this Cathy Maples of Huntsville, Alabama, the high bidder in the Have Lunch With Sarah Palin auction on Ebay?” Enquiring minds want to know.

Please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along to this Sarah Palin song parody also, too.

Wouldn’t It Be Nice song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L–cqAI3IUI

WOULDN’T IT BE NICE

(sung to the Beach Boys song “Wouldn’t It Be Nice”)

Wouldn’t it be nice if Sarah Palin
Represents the brand new G.O.P.
And wouldn’t it be nice if daughter Bristol
Becomes the face of teen abstinency

You know that truth can be stranger than fiction
But this grabs me just like a drug addiction

Wouldn’t it be nice if Sarah Palin
Is the Red State candidate anew
The Democrats will win the next election
Then to Sarah, we can bid adieu

And though she’ll feel that life is such a bummer
She can spend her time with Joe the Plumber
Wouldn’t it be nice

Maybe if we think and wish and hope and pray it might come true
Sarah then could find a periodical to subscribe to
She could be learning
Instead of book burning

Wouldn’t it be nice

(bah ba ba ba ba ba bah)
(bah ba ba ba ba ba bah)

You know the more it seems we sing about it
It only makes it worse to live without it
So let’s sing about it
Wouldn’t it be nice

(bah ba ba ba ba ba bah)
(bah ba ba ba ba ba bah)
(bah ba ba ba ba ba bah)
(bah ba ba ba ba ba bah)
(fading)

Saturday Night Music Byte

William Everett “Billy” Preston (September 2, 1946 – June 6, 2006) was an American soul musician from Houston, Texas, raised mostly in Los Angeles, California. In addition to his successful, Grammy-winning career as a solo artist, Preston collaborated with some of the greatest names in the music industry, including the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Nat King Cole, Little Richard, Eric Burdon, Ray Charles, George Harrison, Elton John, Eric Clapton, Bob Dylan, Sam Cooke, King Curtis, Sammy Davis Jr., Sly Stone, Aretha Franklin, the Jackson 5, Quincy Jones, Mick Jagger, Richie Sambora, and Red Hot Chili Peppers. He played the Fender Rhodes electric piano and the Hammond organ on the Beatles’ Get Back sessions in 1969.

Preston along with Tony Sheridan are the only two non-Beatles to receive billing as an artist alongside the Beatles (as distinct from receiving credit as a session musician on album packaging) on an official Beatles record release. The label of the Get Back single credits the artists on the record as The Beatles with Billy Preston.

Signed to the Beatles’ Apple label, in 1969, Preston released the album That’s the Way God Planned It and a single of the same name (produced by George Harrison). His relationship with Harrison continued after the breakup of The Beatles; he was the first artist to record “My Sweet Lord”, in his album Encouraging Words (Harrison’s own version of the single hit number one in the U.S. and the UK and was the first number one by a former Beatle after they disbanded) and he was on several of Harrison’s 1970s solo albums. Preston also made notable contributions to The Concert for Bangladesh, the Harrison-organized charity concert, toured with Harrison on his 1974 tour of North America and, after Harrison’s death, The Concert for George. Preston also worked on solo recordings by two other ex-Beatles, John Lennon and Ringo Starr. Sadly, he passed away in 2006.

This video clip is a rousing rendition of That’s The Way God Planned It from the 1971 Concert For Bangladesh. Take note of George Harrison’s white suit and stylish hairdo.

Sarah Palin, The Hong Kong Ding Dong

The reason Sarah Palin's speech in Hong Kong will be closed to the press.

It is being widely reported that Sarah Palin’s speech at the CLSA forum in Hong Kong on September 23rd will be closed to the public and the press. We can understand why this is the case in that the event organizers certainly want to keep the laughs in-house as further enticement to join their investors’ group and to sell more tickets. Let’s face it, even Carrottop’s comedy show is available only to ticket purchasers.

Not to worry though. We here at Lynnrockets’ Blast-Off have been provided a leaked copy of Palin’s speech. Well, actually we were told that it could be found in the comment section of  ThinkProgress (here is the link at #57). in any event here is the alleged text of her speech:

From the Kitchen Office of The Governor of the Republic Of Alaska

Well hiya, Honk Ong.

Ya know, I always wondered where Sushi came from, and now I know. Hey congratulations on gaining your freedom from those Commies in 1999.

As a foremost expert on Energies and such I asked my son Trig if I should accept your offer to speak here tonight and he said hell-yeah!
Ya know the only thing more precious than a child, is a vision of an economic that ensures the greatness of achievements so the taxpayers freedoms remain free, like our founding fathers did before our childrens future, which is what I’m fighting for but the media won’t let me because they keep making things up also and I wish they’d just quit it ya know?
Because Governing Alaska is just a leetle bit more qualifying than organizing black kids, you betcha, so that’s why I’m not quitting because basketball moms know the difference between helicopter wolf-hunting and clothes-shopping and when you read all the newspapers like I do you have to ask yourself the hard questions and get things done while protecting your shores because, as a mother, I have a fridge magnet that inspires me every day to keep going and keep fighting for things that are need to be done so that our kids can’t be indoctrinated by the nay-sayers who aren’t real Americans from which we can learn politics as usual isn’t what I’m all about and we should all ask ourselves, in what context? Also.

Thank You.

If this proves not to be the actual speech, don’t worry. In this day and age of cell phones, digital recording devices, etc., we are sure that the word salad will leak out. until then, please enjoy today’s song parody which seems quite appropriate. remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along.

Maxwell’s Silver Hammer song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzsL99OO8_s

SARAH’S SILLY GRAMMAR

(sung to the The Beatles song “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”)

Palin castigates and she miscommunicates
Speaking words unknown
She repeats and drones in a grating tone
Oh, oh, oh

She needs medicine, we’re in need of Excedrin
When she whines and moans
She knows fewer words than ol’ Fred Flinstone
Oh, oh, oh

She’s not as bright as that Plumber, Joe
And dresses like a whore

Slang!, slang!, Sarah’s silly grammar
That spews from out her head
Slang!, slang!, Sarah’s silly grammar
Her language we all dread

Safety schools back then, Sarah had no acumen
Could not stay employed
Wishing to avoid an unpleasant scene
Ee, ee, een

She can’t help but pray for luck each election day
Though she should resign
Working with a mind that is oh, so slow
Oh, oh, oh

She only aggravates and annoys
And gets in ethics binds

Slang!, slang!, Sarah’s silly grammar
That spews from out her head
Slang!, slang!, Sarah’s silly grammar
Her language we all dread

By age forty-one, Palin was a dirty one
Sitting on her throne
Giving state jobs to all her friends from home
Oh, oh, oh

Quacking like a mallard while tossing a word salad
Sarah gives a speech
The words are just out of reach, it’s darn sloppy prose
Oh, oh, oh

And as the words are leaving her lips
She gets much more tongue tied

Slang!, slang!, Sarah’s silly grammar
That spews from out her head
Slang!, slang!, Sarah’s silly grammar
Her language we all dread

Silly grammar gal

Friday Night Music Byte

The Last Waltz was a concert by the Canadian rock group, The Band, held on American Thanksgiving Day, November 25, 1976, at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. The Last Waltz was advertised as the end of The Band’s illustrious touring career, and the concert saw The Band joined by more than a dozen special guests, including Paul Butterfield, Eric Clapton, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, Ronnie Hawkins, Dr. John, Joni Mitchell, Van Morrison, Ringo Starr, Muddy Waters, Ronnie Wood and Neil Young.

The Band was a  group active from 1967 to 1976. The original group (1967-1976) consisted of four Canadians: Robbie Robertson (guitar, piano, vocals); Richard ManuelGarth Hudson (organ, piano, clavinet, accordion, synthesizer, saxophone); and Rick Danko (bass guitar, violin, trombone, vocals), and one American, Levon Helm (drums, mandolin, guitar, bass guitar, vocals). (piano, harmonica, drums, saxophone, organ, vocals);

The members of the Band first came together as they joined rockabilly singer Ronnie Hawkins’ backing group, The Hawks, one by one between 1958 and 1963. Upon leaving Hawkins in 1964 they were known as The Levon Helm Sextet (the sixth member being sax player Jerry Penfound), then Levon and the Hawks (without Penfound). In 1965, they released a single on Ware Records under the name the Canadian Squires, but returned as Levon and the Hawks for a recording session for Atco later in 1965. At about the same time, Bob Dylan recruited Helm and Robertson for two concerts, then the entire group for his U.S. tour in 1965 and world tour in 1966. They also joined him on the informal recordings that later became The Basement Tapes.

Because they were always “the band” to various frontmen, Helm said the name “The Band” worked well when the group came into its own and left Saugerties, New York, to begin recording their own material. They recorded two of the most acclaimed albums of the late 1960s: their 1968 debut Music from Big Pink (featuring the single “The Weight”) and 1969′s The Band. They broke up in 1976, but reformed in 1983 without founding guitarist Robbie Robertson.

Tonight’s music byte features Joni Mitchell playing “Coyote” at the concert while being backed up by The Band. This is a terrific performance of an undeservedly overlooked Mitchell song. Please enjoy.

Little (Republican) Women

Need we say any more?

Those of us here at Lynnrockets’ Blast-Off do not want to appear sexist, but honestly folks, have you ever considered the absurdity of Republican women? They are a group that seems to have, as Glenn Beck would say, ” a deep seated hatred of women.” They voluntarily joined a political party that is against equal pay for women in the workplace. They also would like to deny women free choice in matters involving pregnancy. We understand that many women oppose abortion, but having the ability to choose the procedure would not force any woman to choose abortion. She could just as easily choose to have the child. You see, that is the choice they would have. They could choose what medical procedure they deemed best for themselves. But no, Republican women believe that women are incapable of making an informed decision in their own best interest. Best leave those decisions to the government that they so allegedly despise.

Is it any wonder then that in an attempt to find a leader of their own gender, these Republican women have chosen Sarah Palin? Has there ever been a woman that more vocally railed against women’s rights than she? From advocating against gender equal pay to charging victims for police rape kits, Palin has demonstrated time and again that she believes women do not have the right to equality or the ability to perform at the same level as men. Perhaps that is the reason why she needed Todd “First Dude” Palin to run the Governor’s Office for her during the short time that she occupied it.

Let’s also consider Minnesota Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and Ohio Congresswoman Jean Schmidt. Bachmann is an absolute nut job that lacks any outward appearance of intelligence, but let’s let her tell us a little bit about herself in her own words,

“I look at the Scripture and I read it and I take it for what it is. I give more credence in the Scripture as being kind of a timeless word of God to mankind, and I take it for what it is. And I don’t think I give as much credence to my own mind, because I see myself as being very limited and very flawed, and lacking in knowledge, and wisdom and understanding. So, I just take the Bible for what it is, I guess, and recognize that I am not a scientist, not trained to be a scientist. I’m not a deep thinker on all of this. I wish I was. I wish I was more knowledgeable, but I’m not a scientist.” – Michele Bachmann interviewing with Todd Fiel at KKMS as quoted in the Stillwater Gazette, September 29, 2003.

Now let’s consider Jean Schmidt. In fact let’s look at a few of her quotes to see if we can find some intelligent thought,

“I pledge to … refrain from name-calling or the questioning of character, … Harsh words often lead to headlines, but walking this path is not a victimless crime. This great House pays the price.”

Followed by,

“He asked me to send Congress a message: Stay the course, … He also asked me to send Congressman Murtha a message: that cowards cut and run, marines never do.”

Followed by,

“There’s no way that I remotely tried to impugn his character.”

Nope. No sign of intelligent life there.

American Woman song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leSdvfYcDw0

REPUBLICAN WOMEN

(sung to the Guess Who song “American Woman”)

Republican women they’ve all lost their minds
Republican women, they’ve really lost their minds
Republican women they’ve all lost their minds
Republican women they’ve all lost their minds

Say “R”, say “E”, say “P”
Say “L”, say “I”, say “C”
Say “A” “N”

Republican women they’ve all lost their minds
Republican women they’ve all lost their minds
Republican women they’ve all lost their minds

Republican women, stay away from me
Republican women, from the G.O.P.
You are someone I’ll just ignore
I don’t wanna see your face no more
I got more important things to do
And I will never be sold on you

Now women, I said stay away

Republican women, listen what I say

Republican women, have no dignity
Republican women, and their tea-parties
Like I told you the time before
Michele Bachmann is just a bore
Mann Coulter I do despise
Malkin has a lazy eye
Now women, I said get away
Republican women, listen what I say

Republican women, it’s clear as day
Republican women, they’re no Tina Fey
Talk about defending our shores
Their husbands prefer time with whores
Jean Schmidt always makes a scene
Sarah Palin thinks she’s queen
Mary Matalin’s hypnotized
Ingraham’s mouth is super-sized
Now women, from the G.O.P.
Republican women, mama let me be

Go, gotta get away, gotta get away
Now go go go
Gonna leave you, women
Gonna leave you, women
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
Bye-bye
You’re no good for me
I’m no good for you
Gonna look you right in the eye.
Tell you what I’m gonna do
You know I’m gonna leave
You know I’m gonna go
You know I’m gonna leave
You know I’m gonna go, women
I’m gonna leave, women
Goodbye, Republican women

Thursday Night Music Byte

Sadly, another one of my favorite musical artists died this week at home of a heart attack. The following is a synopsis of his career from Allmusic.com.

To rock audiences, Jim Carroll’s crowning achievement was the near-hit “People Who Died,” a brutally emotional punk record saluting the victims of the New York drug culture. In truth, however, Carroll’s artistic legacy was considerably more complex and far-ranging — an acclaimed diarist, poet, actor and spoken-word performer, his formative years even served as the subject of the film The Basketball Diaries.

The product of a working-class background, Carroll was born and raised in New York City. A highly-touted basketball prospect, Jack Kerouac’s On the Road inspired him to begin keeping a journal at the age of 12; later published in 1978 as The Basketball Diaries, his early writings vividly chronicled his teenage addiction to heroin, which led him into a life of crime and hustling. By the time he was 16, Carrol was a published poet; 1973′s Living at the Movies further established his reputation as a prodigy and funded a move to Northern California, where he was finally able to shed his drug habit.
Inspired by the success of his friend Patti Smith, who also married a background in poetry with a career in rock music, Carroll began writing songs; in 1978, backed by the San Francisco band Amsterdam (comprised of guitarists Terrell Winn and Brian Linsley, bassist Steve Linsley and drummer Wayne Woods), he cut a handful of demos, and was signed to Rolling Stones Records. Produced by label head Earl McGrath, the Jim Carroll Band’s debut album Catholic Boy appeared in 1980; the subject of significant critical acclaim, it featured “People Who Died,” the group’s definitive moment.

Glenn Beck Receives Honorary Degree From “University Of I Don’t Remember”

Lynnrockets’ Blast -Off is pleased to announce that Fox News host and reich-wing moonbat, Glenn Beck has finally achieved the coveted crazy person status that ex-quitting Alaskan governor, Sarah Palin has held since August of 2008. For the first few months of this blog’s existence, Sarah Palin’s wacky antics assured that she would be the subject of the majority of blog entries. She now has competition from Glenn Beck, who’s recent psychological breakdown continues each night before our very eyes.

First we witnessed his numerous bouts of uncontrollable crying and sobbing. Next, there was his televised assertion that President Barack Obama “is a racist” with “a deep seated hatred of white people.” That was followed by Fox forcing him to take an unplanned vacation in an attempt to stem the flow of sponsors vacating his program. Then we had his week of indecipherable Einsteinian-like whiteboard equations which culminated in his misspelling of the word, “oligarchy” ( he wrote, “oligarhy”). And finally, we witnessed his Tea-Baggers march on Washington on September 12th of which he grossly exaggerated the attendance.

Please watch the clip below in which Beck claims that there were 1.7 million people at the event despite numerous reports that attendance was only in the tens of thousands. As support for his number Beck relies upon a study conducted by, are you ready for this…wait…wait… “The University of I Don’t Remember.” We are not kidding. This is what Beck cited as proof. Of course, the Fox News hosts simply accepted that assertion without question like so many rats following the Pied Piper of Preposterousness right off the cliff of truthiness.

When officials at the esteemed University Of I Don’t Remember caught wind of the unexpected shout-out from Glenn Beck, they immediately bestowed upon him an honorary degree. They initially intended to offer him enrollment acceptance so that he could attain a real degree, but when they reviewed his transcript and learned that his college background consisted of only one course (yes, we said course, not semester), his acceptance was denied.

Please click on the song link below to faniliarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with the parody. This one was easy. We didn’t have to tinker too much with the original lyrics. Please enjoy.

Undone song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VLMF5GM0Kt8

UNDONE

(sung to The Guess Who song “Undone”)

Beck’s come undone
He didn’t know what he was headed for
And by the time that Fox shows him the door
It’s much too late

Beck’s come undone
He’s either drinking or he’s getting high
And now his sponsors have gone bye-bye
That is Glenn’s fate

It’s too late
Beck’s gone too far
He’s all but done
Beck’s come undone
Avoids the truth while he shouts out his lies
Now he has to realize
Redemption’s too late

Beck’s come undone
He’s like a little mouse that tries to roar
A TV host that most of us abhor
A victim of his fate

It’s too late
Beck’s no Bill Maher
He is no fun
Beck’s come undone

Too many branches, but not enough Christmas lights
Too many falsehoods and not enough truth
Too many people with too many eyes to see
Too many lies to tell, but not in prime-time

It’s too late
He’s over par
(that was a pun)
Beck’s come undone
(Doe-doe-doe-doe-doe-doe- un doe-doe-doe un doe-doe-doe)
(Doe-doe-doe-doe-doe un doe-doe-doe doe-doe-doe)
(Doe doe-doe-doe doe doe-doe-doe doe doe)

(musical interlude)

It’s too late
Feathered and tarred
He’s dazed and stunned
Beck’s come undone
He didn’t know what he was headed for
And now he’s much worse than the day before
It is too late

Beck’s come undone
He’s like a fountain spewing out just lies
And sometimes he just sits there and cries
Glenn Beck’s character traits

It’s too late
Beck’s gone too far
He’s a no-one
Beck’s come undone
(No no-no-no-no-no-no)
(Doe doe doe-doe)

Wednesday Night Music Byte

Oh, what the heck. Let’s go with some more solo Beatles stuff tonight. This time it is George Harrison and “This Song”.

“This Song” is the fourth track on George Harrison’s 1976 album Thirty Three & 1/3. It was written after the week Harrison spent in a New York courtroom, unsuccessfully trying to convince a judge that his 1970 song, “My Sweet Lord”, did not intentionally infringe the 1963 Chiffons hit, “He’s So Fine”. According to Harrison, the prosecution got ridiculously in-depth, breaking “My Sweet Lord” down into several melody lines, or “motifs”, as they referred to them. Apparently, the prosecution also drew up several charts with large musical notes on it to prove their point.

After he lost the case, Harrison wrote “This Song”, which released his frustration of the infringement case in the form of an uptempo, piano-driven boogie. It is fun to listen to as the lyrics describe that he has written this song without any influence from anything in the world so as not to be sued again. In short, Harrison pokes fun at the court for ruling that a Beatle would need to steal material from a relatively unknown band.

“This Song” was released as the leadoff single for Thirty Three & 1/3 and reached #25 on the American pop charts. It features Billy Preston on piano and organ, and Monty Python’s Eric Idle calling out the now-famous falsetto “Could be ‘Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch’”, “No, sounds more like ‘Rescue Me’!” interjection right before the instrumental break. The song also has a humorous music video (shown on the November 20, 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live), which features George in a courtroom along with a cast of many of his friends dressed up as the jury, bailiff, defense experts, etc. Drummer Jim Keltner appears as the judge and the Rolling Stones’s Ronnie Wood dressed as a ‘Pepperpot’ character mimics those aforementioned falsetto words.

Here is a video clip of “This Song” from the 1976 Saturday Night Live episode. Please note that when you click on the video clip you will be told that embedding is disabled and you will be instructed to click on the words, “Watch on YouTube“. Please do so.

Just for kicks, here is the Chiffons’ “He’s So Fine” followed by Harrison’s “My Sweet Lord” so that you can hear the similarities of the two songs.

Sarah Palin Gets Bush-Whacked

Bush's fist greets Palin's face.

Is there anything more enjoyable to watch than Republicans eating their own? The Angry Party is now angry with itself. Matt Latimer’s soon to be released book, Speech-Less: Tales of a White House Survivor will have passages excerpted in the next issue of GQ Magazine and they are spicy hot. In the book, former worst president in history, George W. Bush takes a few not so subtle jabs at former worst governor in history and former worst vice presidential nominee in history, Sarah Palin.

When he was informed that John McCain had chosen Palin as his running mate, the book states that Bush reacted as follows:

“I’m trying to remember if I’ve met her before. I’m sure I must have.” His eyes twinkled, then he asked, “What is she, the governor of Guam?”

Everyone in the room seemed to look at him in horror, their mouths agape. When Ed told him that conservatives were greeting the choice enthusiastically, he replied, “Look, I’m a team player, I’m on board.” He thought about it for a minute. “She’s interesting,” he said again. “You know, just wait a few days until the bloom is off the rose.” Then he made a very smart assessment.

“This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for,” he said. “She hasn’t spent one day on the national level. Neither has her family. Let’s wait and see how she looks five days out.” It was a rare dose of reality in a White House that liked to believe every decision was great, every Republican was a genius, and McCain was the hope of the world because, well, because he chose to be a member of our party.

Ouch! That’s gonna leave a mark. What will Little Miss Thin Skin do next? I can hear her now, “In honor of the troops, I must now give a shout out to my former Commander in Chief and inform him that he will soon sleep with the fishes and go with the flow also, too.”

As we have said so many times before, sometimes you just can’t make this stuff up. Today’s song parody will expound upon the last Republican two term president’s assertion that Palin is not “remotely prepared for” politics on a national level.

Please remember to click on the song link below to familiarize yourselves with the tune and to have more fun singing along with the parody.

Say Goodbye To Hollywood song link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEoDLUJr8J8&feature=related

SAY GOODBYE TO WASHINGTON

(sung to the Billy Joel song “Say Goodbye To Hollywood”)

Sarah’s driving through Wasilla tonight
With her sights
On a hot new cowboy bar
She joins her lover who came on snow machine
Found her ring somewhere out in their backyard

Say goodbye to Washington
Say goodbye old lady
Say goodbye to Washington
Say goodbye old lady

Toddy’s taking care of things for awhile
That’s his style to act like he’s governor
Sarah’s going off to Hong Kong on a tour
Cuz she can’t get a gig here anymore

Say goodbye to Washington
Say goodbye old lady
Say goodbye to Washington
Say goodbye old lady

Movin’ on is a chance she’ll take for two dimes
That she can rub – together
Whoa oh oh oh
Palin spoke out of line
And George Bush now says her future is gone
Forever
Forever

So now she faces an outsider‘s dull life
And she’ll grasp
For attention now and then
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again

Say goodbye to Washington
Say goodbye old lady
Say goodbye to Washington
Say goodbye old lady

She’s out of the big dance and for good this time
It’s sure to be – forever
Whoa oh oh oh
She used her last life-line
Now she’ll find that the friends she had are gone
Forever
Forever

There’ll be no traces of her once famous life
They won’t last
They are all long gone again
Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes
I’m afraid it’s time for goodbye again

Say goodbye to Washington
Say goodbye old lady
Say goodbye to Washington
Say goodbye old lady