Dr John--right place,wrong time.----ORIGINAL

My friend Tom Despres (also known as Captain Easychord) had this clip on his Facebook wall yesterday, and I've been jamming to it ever since!

This is one that I've never really tuned in and listened closely to before, even though I knew it was a great song. This was a hit before I started listening to songs on the radio. Besides the theme sont to"Blossom", this is what he's best known for. It's such an anomaly too, since Dr. John mainly does traditional New Orleans-flavored R&B. Last time I heard this was in 2000, when I visited the Experience Music Project in Seattle. They have a standing exhibit on funk music, complete with a Motion Odyssey Movie ride, where the seating is on a platform that allows it to pitch and yaw in time to the music. "Right Place, Wrong Time" was just one of the songs featured in the movie, along with "We Want The Funk" by George Clinton, and some other rap tunes.

That said, this song is one I often go to for comedy even if I don't know all the words to it. Dr. John is one of those performers whose sound is so crazy and funky that it can't be straightened. Here's a guy who could not sing a straight-ahead Christmas song without making it sound like his other stuff. Take "Walkin' In A Winter Wonderland":

"In the meadow we can build a snowman...."
"Ooooh!"
"And pre-teeeend he is Pa'son Brown
"He'll say are ya married we'll say no man"
"Ooooh!"
"But you can do the jawwwb - when you in town -- I was inna right plaaayce!"