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re: Apologies to Randy Newman
Posted on 10/7/10 at 10:26 am to TigerMike58
Posted on 10/7/10 at 10:26 am to TigerMike58
Great job TM58 ! Of course the source song
"Rednecks" is from the Randy Newman album " Good Old Boys ", about half of which was about Louisiana in particular and the rest about the South in general . There is another song on the album titled " Wedding In Cherokee County " that sounds like it was inspired by Eudora Welty with a little Faulkner thrown in .
The opening line was: " Papa was a midget , mama was a whore , granddad was a newsboy til he was 84 , what a slimy old bastard he was " , followed later in the song by the anatomical sexual metaphor : " why must everyone laugh at my mighty sword ? " While the song was hilarious it was hard to understand the inspiration .
Years later , I believe it was David Letterman , asked Randy Newman about the song . Newman said he had always wanted to write a song about people from the country Albania because a really high % of circus people were from there (in other words freaks, clowns , crazies and other wierdos) Then Newman said that about half way into writing the song he realized he didn't know enough about people from Albania to finish the song so " I just switched it to Alabama ! "
Geaux Randy ROLL TIDE !!!
Posted on 10/7/10 at 9:50 pm to SNAKE
Thanks all. I was laughing all the way thru that with how the words seem to fit the unique situation we have here with our beloved Tigers.
And Snake, thanks for the interesting history.
I'm a big Randy Newman fan. As I recall, two other great songs off that album concerning Louisiana are, "Kingfish" and "Louisiana, 1927". He preceeds "Kingfish" with Huey Long's & Castro Carazo's campaign song, "Every Man A King"
And Snake, thanks for the interesting history.
I'm a big Randy Newman fan. As I recall, two other great songs off that album concerning Louisiana are, "Kingfish" and "Louisiana, 1927". He preceeds "Kingfish" with Huey Long's & Castro Carazo's campaign song, "Every Man A King"
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