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It is still sweet when someone peeps an echoed 'Crackerjack!' in response.

From the age of about 15-25, I would always do a quiet 'I'm Sweet Dee, and I got da feeling' whenever I heard anyone mentions Sweet Peas (or Sweet Dee, though this was rare).

Nowadays I can't stop myself crooning 'Saaave the baabies' in response to references to 'Save the Children'.

Do you have any such err.. neurotic quirks?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:41 (twenty-three years ago)

No.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:49 (twenty-three years ago)

I only do it very quietly.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:53 (twenty-three years ago)

ooh I could test drive a Tonka

(sorry, Stu Francis generation)

― stevem (blueski), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Making a whole thread out of it - that's quietly?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:55 (twenty-three years ago)

? that is not relevant, is it?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:56 (twenty-three years ago)

No.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 28 March 2003 18:59 (twenty-three years ago)

They had bands on at the end of Crackerjack. I remember those bums doing "Some Girls Do, Some Girls Don't". I sighed, and carried on reading my Spider-Man annual.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:04 (twenty-three years ago)

In my era it ended with a 'comic revue'.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:07 (twenty-three years ago)

To be honest, I probably didn't sigh. I expect I tossed off at the backing dancers all over my Spider-Man annual.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

No, but I take that back.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Friday, 28 March 2003 19:09 (twenty-three years ago)

Whenever I see a Townes Van Zandt or Guy Clark CD at work I always sing to myself a lyric from a Robert Forster song ("Is it Townes Van Zandt, or is it Guy Clark?") Again, v. quietly.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:33 (twenty-three years ago)

Ah - I never had any idea what that line was. Who is Townes Van Zandt?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:44 (twenty-three years ago)

friend of brian Wilson's wasn't he? Song writer with cavalier moustache?

― chris (chris), Friday, 28 March 2003 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

Don't think TVZ ever knew BW - Townes was more of a 'new' countryish singer-songwriter type, more like John Prine, or indeed Guy Clark. The Tindersticks covered 'Kathleen' by TVZ.

― Andrew L (Andrew L), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Who does sing better anyway?

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:03 (twenty-three years ago)

there were a lot of articles about him last year I thought? MAybe I'm getting him mixed up with someone else with a cavalier moustache? Or someone else linked with Wilson?

― chris (chris), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:10 (twenty-three years ago)

Van Dyke Parks? (no moustache tho)

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 28 March 2003 21:21 (twenty-three years ago)

There is an article about Townes Van Zandt in this month's MOJO - its pretty informative with some suggestions for listening. TVZ wrote "Pancho And Lefty" as covered by Emmylou Harris, Evan Dando, The Lefties (our own Tim and the P F!) et al.

Guy Clark was a mate of TVZ, & was also covered by Emmylou.

Cabbage is obviously thinking of Van Morrison.

(Seriously, N. is correct. I believe Van Dyke Parks was friendly/worked with Brian Wilson (& shedloads of others in LA at that time))

― Mooro (Mooro), Friday, 28 March 2003 23:01 (twenty-three years ago)

I think it's a great shame that Peter Glaze is no longer with us to add his inimitable sheen to the pop songs of the day in the closing weekly Crackerjack sketch (well fair enough, he'd be about 110 now if he were still with us, but even so). His delivery of "Golden Years" and "Something For The Girl With Everything" are still remembered with awe by us crinkly old posters.

― Marcello Carlin, Sunday, 30 March 2003 10:39 (twenty-three years ago)

I was thinking of Van Dyke parks yes, I remembered in a slight moment of clarity this morning. God knows why I thought he had a cavalier moustache though.

― chris (chris), Sunday, 30 March 2003 11:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I could understand you thinking he had a Van Dyke beard!

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 31 March 2003 05:53 (twenty-three years ago)

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