In what we're hoping will be a regliar FoamFeaturette™, Four Or Five Guy© and Insta Influencer Clarence Pune will say "just my ten cents worth, folks!"
Shave and a haircut – ten cents [two bits, Shirley? - Ed.].
It’s a rhythmic bit of doggerel heard on playgrounds and as a simple, 7-note musical couplet, riff or fanfare popularly used at the end of a musical performance, usually for comic effect.
People who actually know about music tell me that it’s a simple, syncopated 3-over-2 clave rhythm played in a 4/4 time signature that has a direct lineage in Afro-Cuban music.
A guy named Ellas Bates McDaniel changed his name to Bo Diddley, took his rectangular guitar and adapted it into a trademark rhythm that would add a distinctive backbone to many a song.
The first was a ditty he named after himself. Buddy Holly picked it up. So did the Stones. Johnny Otis. Elvis Presley. Dee Clark. The Who. Springsteen. George Michael and more.
Not a bad deal for ten cents.
... and that's Clarence Pune's ten cents for today! There's A Mystery Loaddown which you're welcome to prod at in the comments!
To claim today's Mystery Loaddown, simply "go to" the "URL" by "clicking on" this "link"!
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/archive/5Xnfg2rE
... and then in your own words describe what's in it without describing what's in it!
More active and complicated than a simple rock rhythm, but less complex than a real Afro-Cuban rhythm.
ReplyDeleteWill there be a Clarence Pune trading card?
ReplyDeleteInstead of a trading card, I come over and pose on your windowsill.
DeletePromises, promises...
Delete7th down, Babs!
DeleteLooks like "Mighty" Joe Young, after a full Brazilian.
DeleteNot anonymous, me, Babs
DeleteThat Mighty Joe Young likeness is the nicest thing anyone's said about Clar for a very long time. The only thing, actually.
Deleteoff topic but...
ReplyDeleteHelp me, please. I have King Crimson and Clover stuck in my head. It keeps repeating over and over. The only ways I know which might fix it,
might also be worse. There is "The Banana Boat Song," and there is "Seasons in the Sun" by Terry Jacks. Have you folk any suggestions?
Bucephalus
Try walking 500 miles while singing The Proclaimers "I’m Gonna Be"
Delete"1-2-3 Red Light" by the 1910 Fruitgum Company has been known to wash away other stubborn earwigs.
Delete--Tod Browning
Howsabout :
DeleteLast night I heard my mama singing a song
Ooh we, chirpy chirpy cheep cheep
Woke up this morning and my mama was gone
Ooh wee, chirpy chirpy cheep cheep
Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep chirp
Where's your mama gone
(Where's your mama gone)
Little baby, Don?
(Little baby, Don?)
Where's your mama gone?
(Where's your mama gone?)
Far, far away
That'll clear out that frippery good and proper
"Rockin' Robin"?
DeleteThe way to get any song out of your head is to sing a few bars of Madonna's Like a Virgin. Don't know why but it works like a charm and it doesn't get stuck in your in place of whatever you were trying to get rid of.
ReplyDeleteThat was rude of me. I should have said *a* way...
ReplyDeleteNope. We get rude here from time to time. This ain't rude, not even close.
DeleteOK, let's get rude.
DeleteAm I the only person here, who can fucking read? Will someone else please reply to the subject at hand!
It's NOT difficult, people,
"go to" the "URL" by "clicking on" this "link"!https://workupload.com/archive/5Xnfg2rE... and then in your own words describe what's in it without describing what's in it!
Right now, Mr. Pune is posing on my windowsill, which I might add, is eighteen floors above Manhattan, and due to lack of pertinent posts, in an inconsolable state, because you heartless bastards, are hijacking this particular thread.
We have a potential jumper situation here. Elderly caucasian, 18th floor ledge. Ghouls gathering on sidewalk opposite. Lady leaning out of window to offer what appears to be hit from her joint.
DeleteWell I was gonna tell you, but I'm a sensitive little soul and don't like all this rudeness, especially from ladies, so I'll just fade away.
DeleteTen rum and cokes.
DeleteOh, that sounds familiar, oh that sounds familiar, oh that sounds familiar, oh that sounds familiar, oh that sounds familiar, oh that sounds familiar....
Delete....Cat's foot, iron claw
come on everybody, sing along if you know the words!
Happy weekend everybody
sorry Bucephalus, I couldn't resist.
I'm sure if you put in a request to Fripp and his missus they would do a version with a Bo Diddley beat , unless she's run out of tin foil that is (watch one of their latest youtubes if you don't get the reference).
DeleteToyah Fripp is a naughty minx.
Delete10 dunda-dunda-dun dun duns from there to here
Deletewhat's innit is many different houses built on the same foundation.
ReplyDeleteYou might want to have a cardiologist run some tests on these tickers.
ReplyDeleteBo was on a show (possibly 1980s UK music-mag 'The Tube'?) alongside The Fall and remarked that they were the only real rock'n'roll act on the bill, recounted by Mark E Smith with dropped jaw.
ReplyDeleteSteve Hillage did 'Not Fade Away' for 'Motivation Radio' in 1977. There's another compilation in there somewhere maybe, hippies/proggers returning to their roots.