“The Intro And The Outro” by The Bonzo Dog (Doodah) Band

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“The Intro And The Outro” by The Bonzo Dog (Doodah) Band

I thought of this at random last night (New Year's Eve) in a pause between songs that my friend in the band was getting ready to play. I wanted to throw up some fictitious band members just like in this song.

So begins my new journal project. With YouTube, I’ve been able to easily find and listen again to songs I vividly remember from my past. I misremember hearing them, or they’re just songs and sometimes comedy routines that I never forgot – as they wre so hard to find in the first place. I’d look for them in public library record collections, record libraries at the community radio station I volunteered at for three years, the college station I DJed at following that, and then the things I heard subsequently after I had decided I was too old to follow popular music anymore. Things I saw on MTV in high school or in videos on the knockoff video jukebox shows on local stations.

I’ve been able to find a lot of cool things. Music from the Jackson Five, The Go-Gos, Loretta Lynn, comedy routines from Shelley Berman, Stan Freberg, and Nichols and May. Journal entries may cover what I remember about hearing each bit for the first time, what I misheard, how it figured in my life then and now, and how people are reacting to it on YouTube. So check back and please comment. Maybe I will turn you onto something new or remind you of some forgotten favorites.