FRIDAY RANDOM TEN

Hey, kids!

What time is it?

No, it’s not Howdy Doody Time. It’s time for the Friday Random Ten, a selection of Choons from the Little White Choon-Box d’Elisson:

1. Fade Into You - Pedro the Lion
   
2. The Road To Hickburg - Laurence Simon
   
3. Epilogue (Part 2 - NASA) - Jeff Wayne’s The War Of The Worlds
   
4. The Idiot Bastard Son - Frank Zappa
   
5. Ebony - Ahmad Jamal
   
6. King Without A Crown - Matisyahu
   
7. Windows - Chick Corea
   
8. I’m Waiting For The Man - The Velvet Underground
   
9. When You’re Smiling - Louis Prima
   
10. Cour D’Amours - Amor Volat Undique - Christian Thielemann - Orff: Carmina Burana

Maybe it’s just coincidence that last night, I had fished Napoleon Murphy Brock’s business card out of a box in my closet. “Uncle Nappy” - Elder Daughter’s nickname for him - toured with Frank Zappa back in the 1970’s and was a familiar voice on several FZ albums. I’ve heard him perform “The Idiot Bastard Son” several times, most recently as part of Project Object. It’s only fitting that I provide the lyrics (and associated Background Goings-On), as performed on the classic Mothers of Invention album We’re Only In It For The Money:

The idiot bastard son:
(THE FATHER’S A NAZI IN CONGRESS TODAY...
THE MOTHER’S A HOOKER SOMEWHERE IN L.A.)

The idiot bastard son:
(ABANDONED TO PERISH IN BACK OF A CAR...
KENNY WILL STASH HIM AWAY IN A JAR)
THE IDIOT BOY!

Motorhead: I never won it because I was too small to start with.

?: How, look out!

Motorhead: I used to drink some bad stuff...Wine, all kinds of wine! I would mix seven different varieties...

Bunk: Had the hots for [...]

JCB: Wah, wah, wah.

Bunk?: over by the [...]

Motorhead: Thunderbird wine...I don’t know but I chugged a fifth of White Port once and passed out one day (heh heh)...and I drank a quart of beer just before that...and we were out riding around in the desert.

Bunk: Anyway...Thomas’s wine mix is...very strange...

Try and imagine
The window all covered in green
All the time he would spend
At the church he’d attend...
Warming his pew

Kenny will feed him & Ronnie will watch
THE CHILD WILL THRIVE & GROW
And enter the world
Of liars & cheaters & people like you
Who smile & think you know
What this is about

(YOU THINK YOU KNOW EVERYTHING...maybe so)
The song we sing: DO YOU KNOW?
We’re listening...
THE IDIOT BOY!

Try and imagine
The window all covered in green
All the time he would spend
All the colors he’d blend...
Where are they now?

Gary Kellgren: Right now I have two hit records on the charts, but it has not made me any money. It has only brought me fame and glory, and a lot of work. Which I do, really not care to tell...

It’s Friday. What are you listening to?