Souls
A couple of drinks into our Friday evening, and over some really nice goat cheese pizza, bin and I had a moment of intense, soul gazing connection. Some radio station or other was playing and for some reason chose to play Bread and Butter by The Newbeats. It’s a very odd song. Midway through the first bar bin looks at me and says “this is Bread and Butter” and then “I had this on Goofy Greats.”
Of course I, too, owned a copy of Goofy Greats when I was a child. Now K-Tel must’ve released about 20 different versions of this album. Some had two LPs, some only one. Some had Mr. Bass Man, and Leapy Lee, while mine did not.
As far as I can tell below is the track listing of the Goofy Greats I had:
Royal Guardsmen – Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron
Brian Hyland – Itsy-Bitsy, Teenie-Weenie, Yellow Polka-Dot Bikini
Newbeats – Bread And Butter
Fendermen – Mule Skinner Blues
Bobby Day – Rockin’ Robin
Hollywood Argyles – Alley-Oop
Johnny Thunder – Loop De Loop
Ohio Express – Yummy, Yummy, Yummy
George Baker Selection – Little Green Bag
Tokens – The Lion Sleeps Tonight
Trashmen – Surfin’ Bird
Ohio Express – Chewy, Chewy
Ray Stevens – Ahab The Arab
Shirley Ellis – The Name Game
Lemon Pipers – Green Tambourine
1910 Fruitgum Co. – Simon Says
Piero Umiliani – Mah-Na-Mah-Na
Bill Haley – See You Later, Alligator
Playmates – Beep, Beep
Jewel Akens – The Birds And The Bells
Lovin’ Spoonful – Nashville Cats
Larry Verne – Mr. Custer
Larry Williams – Bony Moronie
1910 Fruitgum Co. – 1-2-3, Redlight
You’ll notice a few important things here. This list contains the greatest rock and roll song of all time (Surfin’ Bird by the Trashmen), the greatest rock and roll song with the word bo-birley in it (The Name Game by Shirley Ellis), two amazingly non-pc classics (Ahab the Arab and Mr. Custer), the Ohio Express doing all of their “-y” catalog, and Rockin’ Robin. The fact that we both owned this record, both could identify Bread and Butter, and her name is Robin….that /has/ to be kismet right? I’ll be stoked about this for a long long time to come.
(and no…this is not the correct cover for the LP I had…)
