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Letty, apropos of nothing, i'd like to relate a fun experience i had last night. i saw my first limbo dancer, among other neat things. at the end, he had the pole, lit with fire in 3 places, barely a foot above the ground, and made it by a whisker. but in retrospect, i realized anyone can do this. so, what's the secret?

Yit, I used to limbo, but never under fire<smile>

Chubby Checker:




Let's Limbo some more
Let's Limbo some more
Let's hit the floor like we did before
Let's Limbo some more

Let's Limbo to the Limbo Rock
Let's Limbo to the [magic clock]
You know the score
Whatsya waitin' for
Let's Limbo some more

We started dancin' at half past nine
Quarter to one we still look fine
And we're still dancin' at half past two
Now whatsya wanna do

Ha Limbo some more
Let's Limbo some more
Let's hit the floor like we did before
Let's Limbo some more

Question for the day:

Why did Chubby choose the name that he did?

thank you, Miss Letty, for a delightfully whimsical tune--although it's now tinged with pathos. it alluded to one of my fave oldies by the Dixie Cups:

Iko Iko

- drumstick solo -

My grandma and your grandma, were sittin by the fire,
My grandma told your grandma, I'm going to set your flag on fire,

chorus -
Takin bout hey now, hey now
Iko! Iko! an de'
Jackomo fe no an e' , Jackomo fe nan e'

Look at my King all dressed in red
Iko! Iko! an de'
I bet you 5 dollars, he kill you dead!
Jackomo fe nan e'

Takin bout ..... hey now, hey now
Iko! Iko! an de'
Jackomo fe no an e' , Jackomo fe nan e'

My flagboy and your flagboy, sittin by the fire,
My flagboy told your flagboy, I'm going to set your flag on fire,

Takin bout ..... hey now, hey now
Iko! Iko! an de'
Jackomo fe no an e' , Jackomo fe nan e'

See that guy all dressed in green, Iko! Iko! an de'
He's not a man, he's a lovin machine!
Jackomo fe nan e'

Takin bout hey now, hey now
Iko! Iko! an de'
Jackomo fe no nane' , Jackomo fe nan e'

- instrumental solo -

Takin bout hey now, hey now
Iko! Iko! an de'
Jackomo fe no ane' , Jackomo fe nan e'

fade........

Well, Yit, You'll have to translate parts of that song for our listeners, but it sounds very jackamo jocular.<smile>

I vaguely remember this song, Yit





Going to the chapel
And we're gonna get married
Going to the chapel
And we're gonna get married

Gee I really love you
And we're gonna get married
Going to the chapel of love

Spring is here (ooo-ooo-ooo)
The sky is blue (sky is blue)
Birds all sing (oh the birds all sing)
Like they do (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah)
Today's the day (wah-hooo-oooo)
We'll say "I do" (ooo-oooo)
And we'll never be lonely anymore

Because we're
Going to the chapel
And we're gonna get married
Going to the chapel
And we're gonna get married

Gee I really love you
And we're gonna get married
Going to the chapel of love

Bells will ring (ri-ii-iing) (bells will ring)
The sun will shine (hey hey hey yeah) (the sun will shine)
I'll be hers (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah) (I'll be hers)
And she'll be mine (oh oh oh oh oh oh oh) (and she'll be mine)
We'll love until (we'll love until) (hey hey hey) (we'll love until)
The end of time (ooo hooo) (the end of time)
And we'll never be lonely anymore

Because we're
Going to the chapel
And we're gonna get married
Going (goin') to the chapel
And we're gonna get married.

Do they make dixie cups any more?

yes, chapel of love was also by the dixie cups, and they do make dixie cups still. i suppose it's a surprise they weren't renamed to something more PC. i may be polyglot by turtle standards but alas, Iko! Iko! is over my lowly head, so i must decline the translation request. about the only background i can provide on it is i seem to have read that it's based in part on a children's game.

no one interested in the secret of limbo dancing, it seems, but just as well, as it's something silly.

It's not all that silly yit.

I've seen it done under a blanket.It was no laughing matter.

If you have The Laughing Policeman you could put that on just for me.

Eck eeh eeh he yeak yark

Something like that for 5 minutes.

Wow! Yit, I didn't quite get your "secret" the first time. So tell us. What is the secret of limbo dancing? I would guess that it means being able to do the back bend. <smile>Either that, or an allusion to the Roman Catholic state of limbo.

Under a blanket, spendius?

well, since you asked...you use a shovel, and dig a channel under the pole beforehand. the dancer i saw did it the legit way, of course, and i wouldn't have believed it if i hadn't seen it.

Ok, yit. It wasn't silly at all. I had no idea, but now I'm beginning to wonder why they call it the limbo.

Well, listeners, as I have said, you hear it all here on WA2K radio:

In the days of slavery in the U.S., African dances introduced by the slaves were sometimes known as Congo minuets. The West Indian limbo dance, in which each dancer in turn attempts to pass under a low bar, is also thought to have been introduced from Africa. It may well have developed from a ritual dance as its name is believed to be a form of legba or legua, the name of the supreme god in certain West African religions. Another dance that has its origin in African religion is the mambo which gets its name from mamaloa, the Haitian creole word for a voudun priestess. The Haitian word for a male voudun priest is babaloa. Just as we turned the Creole word voudun into "voodoo", we also turned babaloa into babaloo. A song by this name will be familiar to all fans of Ricky Ricardo, the conga-drummer husband of Lucy in the "I Love Lucy" show. It may come as a surprise to some that the conga-drum was not so called until the 1920s. In Cuba it is called the tumba or tumbadora, depending on its pitch, and Puerto Rico has a similar, but smaller, drum called the quinto. Most Americans had seen nothing like these drums until the conga dance craze of the 1920s, hence they were all called conga-drums. But whence the term conga dance? It comes from the Spanish word conga meaning" a Congolese woman". Isn't it odd how so many dances are named "woman of [place]"?

News update:



Bob Denver, TV's Gilligan, Dead at 70 35 minutes ago



LOS ANGELES - Bob Denver, whose portrayal of goofy first mate Gilligan on the 1960s television show "Gilligan's Island," made him an iconic figure to generations of TV viewers, has died, his agent confirmed Tuesday. He was 70.



Denver died Friday at Wake Forest University Baptist Hospital in North Carolina of complications from treatment he was receiving for cancer, his agent, Mike Eisenstadt, told The Associated Press. Denver's death was first reported by "Entertainment Tonight."

Denver had also undergone quadruple heart bypass surgery earlier this year.

Denver's wife, Dreama, and his children Patrick, Megan, Emily and Colin were with him when he died.

As I'm on my way to bed, I'm just remembering this song by the Doors

No me moleste mosquito
No me moleste mosquito
No me moleste mosquito
Why don't you go home
No me moleste mosquito
Let me eat my burrito
No me moleste mosquito
Why don't you go home.


(Well, actually there are 'only' biting midges in the sleeping room :wink: )

And "La Cucaracha" means "the cockroach".

Any more songs about insects/ small creatures? How about this song from my younger days:

Inchworm, inchworm
Measuring the marigolds
You and your arithmetic
You'll probably go far.....

You haven't lived until you have been attacked by a no-seeum, Walter. As we speak, I'm trying to find a song by Helmet of gnats.

Still searching, McTag. A no-seeum, contrary to common belief, is a gnat; not a mosquito.

Well, listeners. I could have played some Gnat Cole, but I opted for this. Hope it's presentable, but it's for Walter and McTag.

aus: USA


Zur Band-Website

Bemerkungen


Chris Fox studierte unter anderem einige Jahre auf der Berklee School of Music. Daneben spielte er bereits Konzerte mit Eddie Jobson (UK, Jethro Tull, Zappa).

Auch Matt Bocchino studierte einige Jahre in Berklee. Neben diversen Einflüssen aus der Fusion-Szene, war Bocchino besonders von den Keyboardern der 'klassischen' Progbands beeinflusst.

Die Wurzeln von "Helmet of Gnats" (= Insektenhelm, so sinngemäss, ich denke mal, dass ist das Ding, welches Imker z.B. auf dem Kopf haben) reichen zurück bis ins Jahr 1980. Dort gründeten Chris Fox und Matt Bocchino mit einigen Kumpels auf der High School das Sextett "Left Testicle", um Musik ihrer Vorbilder wie UK, Frank Zappa, Utopia, Kansas... zu spielen.

Nachdem sich "Left Testicle" nach nur drei Konzerten auflösten, folgte die Instrumentalband "Mooncricket", welche sogar bei einem Musikfestival in New York einen Preis gewann. Man spielte Eigenkompositionen sowie Covers von Jeff Beck, Brand X, Focus und Jean-Luc Ponty.

"Mooncricket" durchliefen in der Folge einige Besetzungswechsel und entwickelten sich musikalisch in Richtung Return To Forever, Mahavishnu Orchestra und Dixie Dregs.

Ende 1982 benannte sich die Band in "A Helmet Of Gnats" um und mutierte quasi zu einer Dixie Dregs-Tribute-Band. Darüberhinaus experimentierte man mit elektronischer Musik. Trotz einiger Erfolge löste sich die Band Ende 1988 auf.

In 1990 trafen sich Fox und Bocchino wieder und beschlossen die Band wiederzubeleben. Zunächst war sogar ein Sänger mit an Bord, allerdings fanden die übrigen Bandmitglieder, dass die Ausrichtung der Songs auf "Gesang" zu limitierend sei. Also wurde der Sänger gefeuert und man machte als Instrumental-Combo weiter.

Diverse Line-Up-Wechsel führten zur aktuellen Besetzung der Band mit den Ur-Mitgliedern Chris Fox (Gitarre) und Matt Bocchino (Tasten) sowie Wayne Zito (Bass) und Mark Conese (Schlagwerk), der schon in den Anfangszeiten in den 80ern mal dabei war. Diese Besetzung ist nun seit Anfang 2000 stabil und schmiss lediglich noch das "A" aus dem Bandnamen: Helmet of Gnats.

Die "Gnats" spielen nach eigener Meinung instrumentalen progressive Rock an der Schnittstelle zwischen Rock und Fusion in der Tradition von Dixie Dregs, Mahavishnu Orchestra und ähnlichen Bands.

:wink:

Reconstruction Site
The Weakerthans

Well, I'm lost
I'm afraid
Rope tying down a leaky boat
To the roof of a car on a road in the dark and it's snowing
If I'm more then it means less
Last call for happiness
I'm your dress near the back of your knees and your slip is showing
I'm a float in a summer parade
Up the street in the town that you were born in
With a girl at the top wearing tulle
And a Miss Somewhere sash, waving like the queen
Well beauty's just another word
I'm never certain how to spell
Go tell the nurse to turn the TV back on
Throw away my misery
It never meant that much to me
It never sent a get-well card.

And I'm broke, like a bad joke
Somebody's uncle told at a wedding reception in 1972
Where a little boy under a table with cake in his hair
Stared at the grown-up feet as they danced and swayed
And his father laughed and talked on the long ride home
And his mother laughed and talked on the long ride home
And he thought about how everyone dies someday
And when tomorrow gets here, where will yesterday be
And fell asleep in his brand new winter coat

Buy me a shiny new machine that runs on lies and gasoline
And all those batteries we stole from smoke alarms
And disassembles my despair
It never took me anywhere
It never once bought me a drink

The Weakerthans, dj? Fantastic, Canada.



A Plea To the Weaker Sex
Why can't a woman be more like a man?
Men are so pleasant, so easy to please;
Whenever you're with them, you're always at ease.

One man in a million may shout a bit.
Now and then there's one with slight defects;
One, perhaps, whose truthfulness you doubt a bit.
But by and large we are a marvelous sex!

'Cause men are so friendly, good natured and kind.
A better friend you never will find.

So, why can't a woman be like that?

Well, listeners, I do believe that edgar won't be able to make it hear tonight, or he most assuredly would have gotten the Chubby question.

Chubby Checker got his name from Fats Domino. So there.