Especially for Alexis.... This is "Eat My Shorts", by Rick Dees. Rick Dees is best known as a DJ and singer of the song "Disco Duck".
I haven't heard this song in ages, so I was delighted to find it on YouTube. Thanks for reminding me of it, Alexis.
This song definitely qualifies as crap from the past. I give you "Disco Duck"...
i had no idea the same guy who did "Disco Duck" also recorded "Eat my shortz." I played the vidoe of "Eat My Shortz" for Daddy, and he sang along with every word. My mom just looked at us as though we were both imbeciles.
ReplyDeleteRegarding Disco Duck, when my brother and I were in kindergarten, back in the days when I was still called "Baby Lexus" by everyone but my parents, children were assigned days when it was their turn, if they so desired, to bring in a CD that would be played at free art time that we had every day right after lunch. Free art time was sort of a cool-down time after recess and before story time, and probably was a replacement for rest time when The Powers That Be decided that kindergartners -- even all-day kindergartners -- were too old for rest time. We would sit and color at our desks while music played. If a child didn't bring a CD on his or her day, the teacher would play one of her own. (This was the same teacher who couldn't hear fire alarms and taught the kids to open her child-proof medicine bottles for her; we're talking about seriously impaired judgement here.) None of us was happy when a child forgot to bring a CD. It probably meant we had to listen to Lawrence Welk or a choir of nuns. My brother eventually started packing a CD in his backpack each day to share with any kid who forgot to bring his own CD in order to spare all of us the agony of the Lawrence Welk Singers and Band or the nun choir. (I rag on Matthew from time to time for his lack of intellectual prowess, but that was a pretty smart thing for a kindergartner, and a young one to boot, having turned five on California's cutoff date of December 2, to have come up with on his own.) Anyway, the music was supposed to be at least sort of mellow and nothing with one of those Tipper Gore labels on it. Otherwise, basically anything went.
One day in December a boy named JD brought a CD entitled something to the effect of "Disco Duck Sings the Greatest Christmas Hits." I don't know if it was really Rick Dees, or if it was some sort of rip-off, but it has to have been the single worst CD I've ever heard in my life, and I've heard some heinous music. I recall asking the teacher if I could wear the head phones from the listening center, which I usually avoided as one would avoid H1N1 or SARS because I was so paranoid about contracting head lice, but the teacher said no, so I was at the mercy of Disco Duck and his renditions of the famous carols. I remember "Carol of the Bells" being especially atrocious.
It probably wasn't really Rick Dees. He was somewhat shameless, as evidenced by his original recording of "Disco Duck," but even he must have had standards.
"Eat My Shortz," however, was in an entirely different category. That was practically Grammy material.
I've said it before and I'll say it again. I think I like your dad, Alexis. He sounds kind of nutty.
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