Another good title for today would have been “Run Like Hell” from Floyd, but I’ve been a little Floyd heavy lately, so I went with the great catch phrases from the two greatest baseball announcers ever… Jack Brickhouse and Harry Caray. Caray was over at the Sox for a while and has a bit of 1977 trivia in his history: that was the year Jimmy Piersall joined Harry as his announcing partner for White Sox games. Ta-da. And you thought I was only a NASCAR fan. Hey, we’re talking Chicago sports here, I know a little stuff. I’ve attended at least ONE game for each pro sports team here in Chicago, including the old White Sox park, Wrigley, the old Stadium (Black Hawks) and the Bulls. Drank so much at the White Sox game that I tossed up the sliders we had on the bus ride home. Great times, great times…
I was going to post up the Cubs theme song, but it wasn’t available, so I decided to go with a secondary theme of RUN! Actually this little gem is in my collection of dusty & scratchy old 45s. Best to my knowledge, Jo Jo Gunne was a one-hit wonder but this wonderful little platter was spun on my turntable back in 1972/73 for a bit. So what little one-hit wonders do you have in your library? Come on, I’ve got worse than this! Let’s hear what golden goodies you guys have to offer!
Decided to add Slade’s “Run Runaway” just for the hell of it. 🙂
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Crazy Irish folks XD
They are a ton of fun though… 🙂
Robyn’s Da looks like a Joe. Or a Gerry. Or maybe a Fergus Or – aah, go on, tell us what he’s called!
maybe he’s a seamus? 😀
man, i almost prefer no-hit wonders to one-hit wonders…but i guess that’s just how i roll. 😀
–dee!
I have a few groups in my catalog that most people go “Who the hell is that?” when I mention them. Not many, but a few.
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Heh, it took me about two seconds to figure out that “Da” was “Dad” and not the way guys combed their hair back in the 60s (“Nice DA man…”) Which I believe stood for “Duck’s Ass” as that’s how it looked from the back.
Seamus (Shamus) McKenna sounds good… I never really figure these things out ahead of time for the extra characters. Note Bud’s Mom does not have a name yet, as do most of the parents. I’m not great at thinking up names and like to let readers steer me when I can.
Thus why Seamus is probably going to be his name… 🙂
“Seamus (that’s the dog)…”
LOL yes – duck’s arse/ass it was, but that would be with both letters in uppercase 🙂
Seamus (which BTW corresponds to the English name James) is such an archetypal name that it works fine in a comic, heh.
I grok not the ‘one hit wonders’ thing, and never have. There’s good music and there’s less good music and then there’s a whole rancid universe of bad-to-awful music. Sometimes one artist or band turns out a long string of good songs and sometimes an artist or band has only one memorable/fun/funky-outrageous song to offer the world (and sometimes that artist or band has plenty, but the label/producer/management blocks the rest of the great songs from even getting out to the public…and so on).
Holy ****ing ***! I thought I was the only one in the world who remembered “Run” and the name of the perp. I often run that baby in Mr Brain while walking to get coffee on a slow day. Gets the blood pumping.
Only song I know with one line verses. But ya gotta love the racing motorcycle gear-changes he runs on his axe.
The only question is: why don’t I own a copy?
Yes, the song has no socially significant lyrics or deep meaning, it’s just a fun pop song. I wonder what the heck became of them anyway?
Their first album is on iTunes and it reminded me that Jay Ferguson was in the group and anyone around in the 70s will remember his hit “Thunder Island”. It is all coming back to me now. Jay was *also* in Spirit… the “I Got A Line On You” folks.
Amazing what brain cells are still kicking after all these years… 🙂
“Cubs”? “Sox?”
Are these nicknames for people who play for the Yankees?
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I think so… along with Who, What and “I Don’t Know” on third base…
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For the record…Cubs. I was born in New York, so I understand…you choose Mets or Yankees, and never the twain shall meet. As it was in the beginning, is now and ever shall be. 🙂 (And in that case, Mets. I’d root for a team of murderers, coached by Hitler and owned by Satan before I’d root for the Yankees. 🙂
Now Tom, tell us what you *really* think about the Yankees… come on…
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Yes, it is always the Cubs…
Granted, I’m a fan of people who are fans. I love it when people support their team. (And I do like Ozzie Guillen…he’s always great for a quote!) I’m no Rudy Guiliani fan, but when the Mets and Yankees played in the World Series, he was supposed to put on some goofy “half and half” hat…at a press conference, he tossed it to the side and put on his Yankees hat. I gained a ton of respect for him at that moment. 🙂 I’m all about loyalty…I’d hate to see Derek Jeter become a Red Sock…it’s just wrong. Another reason I hate Johnny Damon…win a World Series with the Sox and then go play for the Yankees? Evil! Evil I say!
Getting in a Pogues reference a few years early, are we, lad? 😉
(And if yer a Pogues fan, have ye yet heard Flogging Molly?)
I did? How’d I do that? Never heard of them until your post.
Now I gotta go look them up. Damn you, there goes my morning!
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You’ve never heard of The Pogues? (Named for “Pogue ma Thoin.”) Really?
Formed in 1982, they’re the hard-drinking Irish analog to The Clash. Celto-Punk began with these lads (and a lass), and their trash-the-pub legacy reaches from Oysterband and The Levellers to Flogging Molly and The Decemberists (though Flogging Molly is their most obvious descendant).
If you’ve yet to have the pleasure, check out any track from If I Should Fall From Grace With God, most especially the title cut, “Turkish Song of the Damned,” “Bottle of Smoke” or “Fairytale in New York.”
Fairytale of New York: the only Christmas carol the world ever really needed 😀
Not knowing anyone from the Chicago area I had only heard of this “pick a side, and make sure it’s the one I agree with” rivalry thru here say. My older brother and his family just recently moved to Chicago and from the get go they have been asked several times which team they support. Having been only to a Cubs game on one of their visits they arrived as Cubs fans, but his foreman is a die hard White Sox fan and he found out first hand that people take that stuff a little too personally. To say the least he’s figured out there’s three things he has to avoid getting sucked into a conversation about at work, “Religion, Baseball, and Politics”. Evidently Baseball is ranked higher than religion when the conversation turns to White Sox or Cubs. 🙂
In Chicago, you better be a Democrat above all else. I’ll say nothing more on that.
Oh, yes, the “which team you support” subject is huge here in Chicago. You aren’t a fan of both, that’s clear. It’s one or the other. I’m a lifelong Cubbies fan and I take a lot of shots from the Sox people, but if you chat with people outside of Chicago, they’re more than likely a Cubs fan over the White Sox. Wrigley is the biggest reason. It is such a cool old place and I think people go just to hang out. The game is secondary.
It’s a good thing, as the Cubs suck most years. But that’s what makes us Cubs fans… they’re so bad they’re good.
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Ah, Jimmy Piersall… my first MLB idol. Saw him and ted Williams with the Red Sox back in ’57 as a wee lad. Couldn’t believe my luck when he came to the Senators later.
Well, if you were a “wee lad” back in ’57, you’ve got me beat as that’s the year I was born! Oh, man, Ted Williams was something, eh? Piersall and Caray made a pretty good team in the Broadcast booth.
Glad to have someone a tad older on this ride as well. 🙂
I’m not even a baseball fan (yeah, being Canadian you have this tendency towards hockey) but I pick the Cubs over the White Sox anyday.
Hockey? Is that like Rugby? Well, I have been to one Black Hawks game, so I have that going for me. Hockey is Professional Wrestling on ice, only with more blood and less teeth.
And I’m with you on the Cubs/Sox thing… Canadian, eh? Seems I have quite the following up there. Go Canada!
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Growing up in Philly and living in South Jersey now, I’m a HUGE Phillies fan…but the Cubs are cool with me since they’re an NL team. 🙂
since you’ve asked for rare gems, I was very recently introduced to this german cover version of an all time high piece of 70’s Rock.
It’s performed by a couple otherwise very successfully tied to the german ‘Schlager’ genre which goes back to operetta music and would in closest US popularity terms maybe equal to Country&Western, more something like Carpenters. The lyrics were not translated, instead the texter chose to make something up from scratch about the Conan Doyle / Sherlock Holmes Hound Of The Baskervilles. This famous beast – or the closest resemblance the director of photography could spot – is also featured in the clip
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIYRFvQMh7A
full version is at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReiAGVoJFkc
but only features the LP cover instead of a video, which should give you an idea about what style of music the couple usually did.
…. and know I’ll have to go to disembowel myself honorably for putting that stuff upon you
Okay, that video rocked… badly. Yeah, think of the Carpenters covering “Paranoid” by Sabbath and you get the idea.
I love the one couple they show “dancing” while they watch a studio monitor. This is so bad it’s great! What the hell is up with that dog? Man…
But the real question is… where the heck did you dig this up? You score big points for this one!
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not much credit to me, I’ve got it via mail from a friendly (?) fellow musician I’ve collaborated with in the past.
He also directed me to Karel Gott aka the Golden Voice of Prague covering another masterpiece … to clarify:
– he’s Czech
– music style is Hungarian (again, heavy operetta influence)
– german lyrics (quite literally translated with this one)
– original is Stones
not scared enough? check at your own risk, I haven’t heard it through, after one minute or so I must turn it off
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwJp_Xh8lP0
In related news I’ll have to reconsider my relationship to that fellow …
I listened to the entire thing, and now I wish I could attend an acid party and blast it at the trippers. The laughing would last an hour.
Dad must be fearsome. She’s even running! 😀
If you ever met my father when he was pissed, you’d run too…
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Um…pissed, pissed off, or pissed AND pissed off? 😛
Ah, you wacky Americans…
Now, now, you know we rednecks shorten things up… pissed here is just pissed off… not drunk. As in “Man, was he pissed…” is not “My old man is drunk again…”
~laughs~ I usually got around the problem when I was out in Ahh Murka by saying ‘browned off’ for angry and ‘shitfaced’ for drunk 🙂
you gotta love how versatile the word “piss” and its derivatives truly are, on both sides of the pond. its almost as all-purpose as my beloved f-bomb.
–dee!
oooh, WHITE Sox… why do I always think Red Sox? Got confused there.
Go… Indians? Nah, nevermind, who am I kidding.
Red Sox? Who the hell are they? Come on, I’m lucky I know the Chicago team names!
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hmmm at least some of you yanks know how to speak a little bit of the language of your fore fathers. Pog Ma Thoin= Kiss My Ass
FINALLY someone comes up with the translation! I was wondering how long it would be before someone asked what it meant or translated it!
Thank you for that! Now you all go brush up on your Gaelic, there’s a quiz on Friday…
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BTW, this from an Englishman who doesn’t understand half the English language, let alone Gaelic!
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Whaaa? You’re English? News to me, you ol’ redneck you 😛 😛 😛
Also…what is this ‘baseball’ of which you speak, Earthling? ~wanders off to watch mental videos of Great Moments in Middle Distance Running~
baseball? its like cricket in the respect that it can be just as boring…it just moves a little quicker sometimes. 😀
*runs!*
Hah! At least cricket has pleasantly white uniforms. And hysterically funny commentary betimes. And more restful-looking expanses of green when it’s on telly. I’m pretty sure baseball is just jumped-up rounders with stupid-looking costumes 😛
ANYway, since you’re asking for our favorite one-hit wonder, mine is Billy Thorpe. “Children of the Sun”, the song, is one of my Top Five Faves. “Children of the Sun”, the album, minus the titular song, sucked donkey dong.
Sounds like a good enough reason to pick a fight!
I LOVE the hair on both characters in the last panel! HILARIOUS
Ah, two things incomprehensible to the British mind: American sports (are we talking about the one that’s like rounders or the one that’s like rugby?) and Irish-Americans (except that they all hate the British – we’re used to that and respond accordingly. Something to do with what my great-great-great many times great-grandfather might have done to their umpteen-times great grandfather in County Guinness in 1690, apparently)
Genius cartoon, though, and the Pogues – a grand band but with un-American dentistry…!