tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post2483403668680250662..comments2023-11-03T06:02:02.128-07:00Comments on By Ken Levine: Never sing HOT ROD LINCOLNBy Ken Levinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17305293821975250420noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-10306774652431576992009-05-23T23:43:42.827-07:002009-05-23T23:43:42.827-07:00The song is from 1955. It was redone in the '70s b...The song is from 1955. It was redone in the '70s by Commander Cody but the original was by Charlie Ryan.<br /><br />And I think it would have been areally funny bit.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-12142419248179430962009-04-30T17:10:00.000-07:002009-04-30T17:10:00.000-07:00I wish someone would place that episode of them si...I wish someone would place that episode of them singing 'Balad of the Green Beret' to Norm on Youtube.<br />They sang it to him because he was going to move to Canada with his girlfriend, right?<br />Was he married at this same time?Forestnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-5932052546734724242009-04-27T10:40:00.000-07:002009-04-27T10:40:00.000-07:00Wait. Did you do it in under a minute?
'Cause tha...Wait. Did you do it in under a minute?<br /><br />'Cause that could have been it, right there.Joehttp://blog.vinapedia.netnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-77719044294109597592009-04-26T16:33:00.000-07:002009-04-26T16:33:00.000-07:00Since music is the topic, maybe Ken or some of you...Since music is the topic, maybe Ken or some of you MASH fans can answer this. Were different versions of the MASH theme "Suicide is Painless" used through the run of the series, or in syndication. I heard one last week on ION that sounded unlike the one I was used to hearing.bensonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-26072094838653093512009-04-26T16:08:00.000-07:002009-04-26T16:08:00.000-07:00How about the episode where everyone but Diane sta...How about the episode where everyone but Diane start singing the music to The Magnificent Seven? That was well done.Cap'n Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11783977137812876489noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-29028054473661794592009-04-26T16:05:00.000-07:002009-04-26T16:05:00.000-07:00Hot Rod Lincoln's words are mostly an excuse to pl...Hot Rod Lincoln's words are mostly an excuse to play an INSANELY great guitar riff...perhaps having the Fellas verbalise that, as well, might have put it oer the top.cbnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-53442099923503041292009-04-26T09:33:00.000-07:002009-04-26T09:33:00.000-07:00"Cheers" actually got close to that gag, with Norm..."Cheers" actually got close to that gag, <A HREF="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0539889/" REL="nofollow">with Norm and Cliff singing "Lollipop"</A> in the Season 9 episode with the karaoke machine.<br /><br />As far as the actual Hot Rod Lincoln bit, I think the problem was it's one of those "element of suprirse" gags, where the laughter comes from doing something totally out of left field. If you know the gag of two people singing quickly together at the dame time is coming, it loses the surprise factor and instead becomes two people auditioning for Simon in an early-season episode of "American Idol". If you and David had been a little more devious and snuck the gag up on the rest of the staff, you probably could have gotten it into the show. <br /><br />(My own personal favorite "incident in a Syracuse sports bar that could have made a good sitcom gag" was standing next to a Boston Bruins fan at R.J. O'Toole's and talking to him during a playoff OT period, then offering extended condolences after Montreal scored the goal to end the series, before looking around to see that not only wasn't he standing next to me anymore, about a third of the bar had magically been transported out onto Nottingham road, and I was prattling away to no one. Could have worked with Fraser standing next to some wildly enthusiastic people watching a game on the bar's TV and then prattling on about after a last-second loss by the Bruins or a walk-off HR loss by the Sox on how this is a microcosm of the frustrations of real life before turning around to find everyone at the bar has left the building but Al-or-Phil, to deliver the scene-ending zinger).Johnnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-26964150131037768662009-04-26T09:15:00.000-07:002009-04-26T09:15:00.000-07:00I had something similar happen in college. I took...I had something similar happen in college. I took theatre appreciation for a semester. We had to put on a play for final credit. To prove my verbal dexterity I told our instructor that I could say the entire dialogue from the Ghost of Christmases Yet to Come from A Christmas Carol in less than one minute. My instructor took me on and as I stood in front of him not saying a word I kept getting this visual “Well?” from his face. He never got it either.Randallnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-40611437968075189832009-04-26T08:45:00.000-07:002009-04-26T08:45:00.000-07:00My wife just said, Hon, I know what you’re thinkin...My wife just said, Hon, I know what you’re thinkin’<br />Staring at the screen with your lips a-lipsynchin’.<br />You’ve got it in your noggin to respond all in rhyme,<br />If you want a divorce, just try wastin’ that much time.<br /><br />I said don’t have a cow, there’s no need to be wary,<br />Even Dylan writes his tunes with a rhymin’ dictionary.<br /><br />Like that fateful night…his brain was stoned…upon the railroad track.<br />He whipped it out, and he was saved, as thoughts kept rushing ba-aa-aack….<br />Teen angel, can you hear me? Teen angel, can you see-ee me?<br />Are you somewhere up above?<br />This rhyme fits like OJ’s glo-o-ove….<br /><br />She said Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall, ‘cause yours are always stinkin’.<br />All I Really Want to Do, is whup your head like Booth got Lincoln.<br />What was it Ken was looking for, that took the laughs that night?<br />They said they found a high school song, in scripts he and David’d wri-i-ite…<br /><br />Teen angel, can you hear me? Teen angel, can you see-ee me?<br />If you’re in the writers’ room? Please save us from this so-ong of doom….<br />If you’re in the writers’ room? Please save us from this so-ong of doom….<br /><br />Sweet sixteen years, that Cheers is gone.<br />They’ve taken it away.<br />That song won’t part their lips again.<br />It died in L.A. that d-a-ay....<br /><br />Teen angel, can you hear me? Teen angel, can you see-ee me?<br />I think we’d better g-g-g-go with that groin in-jur-y.<br />Yeh, at least you wear a cup with that grrrroin in-jury.<br /><br />Er, sorry.A. Buck Shorthttp://roger-burke.dailykos.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-32107790390340960422009-04-26T08:42:00.000-07:002009-04-26T08:42:00.000-07:00Well, I just sang the lyrics real fast and it crac...Well, I just sang the lyrics real fast and it cracked me up. So maybe it would have worked? Cool story anyway, thanks.<br /><br />PS. Did that paragraph look alright? 'Cause I could try again. Or maybe tell a great story about this cool mechaic I know. Please advise.The Milner Coupehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04615531012474374223noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-60246313933054027982009-04-26T08:28:00.000-07:002009-04-26T08:28:00.000-07:00a friend and i have a reputation for singing "99 l...a friend and i have a reputation for singing "99 luftballoons" in german at very inappropriate times.The Minstrel Boyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00697821546165315014noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-29360284414608452872009-04-26T07:17:00.000-07:002009-04-26T07:17:00.000-07:00Ken,
I wish you had done this on Cheers. It would...Ken,<br /><br />I wish you had done this on Cheers. It would have been classic... I mean, maybe not the funniest bit ever, but funny isn't always the stuff that makes it classic. And besides, you and David are not John and George... so how do you know it wouldn't have gotten a laugh had Cliff and Norm done it?<br /><br />I love the episode where Cliff is about to head off to Canada with Maggie, and then the bar starts singing the Ballad of the Green Beret... classic.Vermonter17032http://welcometosherwood.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-76877278882663970512009-04-26T07:06:00.000-07:002009-04-26T07:06:00.000-07:00Wasn't there a Cheers teaser that ended up with th...<I>Wasn't there a Cheers teaser that ended up with the bar doing the rhythmic clap/stomp from Queen's "We Will Rock you"?</I>Yes, I can recall it being played at the Vet when the Phillies came to bat in a close game in the ninth inning.VP81955https://www.blogger.com/profile/11792390726196611188noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-2496449386773860252009-04-26T06:43:00.000-07:002009-04-26T06:43:00.000-07:00Actually it appears one way on the post page and d...Actually it appears one way on the post page and differently on the commenting page. Weird. But I've had enough of trying to force the paragraph break formatting through different tricks. It is what it is and it's not THAT important, so to Hades with it. It's readable enough.Dimension Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05392348422733549988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-30632089096558905992009-04-26T06:39:00.000-07:002009-04-26T06:39:00.000-07:00Hmmm... Still didn't quite appear as it did in the...Hmmm... Still didn't quite appear as it did in the preview mode, but close enough.Dimension Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05392348422733549988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-5230996224785228452009-04-26T06:37:00.000-07:002009-04-26T06:37:00.000-07:00(Sorry for the multiple posts/deletions. I had tr...<I>(Sorry for the multiple posts/deletions. I had trouble getting a paragraph break to appear correctly. Should have done the preview thing before posting, I know...)</I>I have "Hot Rod Lincoln" in my music collection.<br /><br />Ok. That's all I got.<br /><br />Yes, Queen's "WWRY" was featured as you remember, Benson.<br />______________<br /><br />And now for something completely different (though not necessarily interesting to most folks)...<br /><br />I was very surprised to see Chuck Lorre listed as keynote speaker for the <A HREF="http://www.nebulaawards.org/" REL="nofollow"><B>Nebula Awards</B></A> ceremony (<A HREF="http://www.sfsite.com/news/2009/04/26/nebula-winners/" REL="nofollow"><B>here</B></A> is where I came across it this morning). I wondered if perhaps there was another Chuck Lorre, but I figured it almost had to be THE Chuck Lorre and it is, as the <A HREF="http://www.nebulaawards.com/images/uploads/Nebs_program_final.pdf" REL="nofollow"><B>downloadable PDF of the program for the evening</B></A> attests. It gives the obvious TV credits I knew of and goes on to mention:<br /><br /><I>"...A native of Long Island, Mr. Lorre turned his attention to television. He began writing animation scripts for DIC and Marvel Productions, as well as writing and producing themes and scores for such animated series as </I>Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles<I>. The rest is history."</I><BR>I didn't know that. That helps put a context to some of the humor associated with Charlie's jingle business on <I>2.5 Men</I>, especially the episode where Charlie was supposed to write a theme for some sort of <I>TMNT</I> knockoff-type show of which Jake was a fan. Cool.Dimension Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05392348422733549988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-15059065607232728902009-04-26T06:34:00.000-07:002009-04-26T06:34:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dimension Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05392348422733549988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-78657027510607890252009-04-26T06:32:00.000-07:002009-04-26T06:32:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dimension Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05392348422733549988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-32812097425249702862009-04-26T06:27:00.000-07:002009-04-26T06:27:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Dimension Skipperhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05392348422733549988noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-66692281142476529992009-04-26T05:58:00.000-07:002009-04-26T05:58:00.000-07:00OK, I'm having a senior moment. Wasn't there a Che...OK, I'm having a senior moment. Wasn't there a Cheers teaser that ended up with the bar doing the rhythmic clap/stomp from Queen's "We Will Rock you"?bensonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-78842367147020706232009-04-26T05:41:00.001-07:002009-04-26T05:41:00.001-07:00Ken if you could have got Cliff and Norm to memori...Ken if you could have got Cliff and Norm to memorize all them lines and spit them out within a minute it sure would have worked for me, cheers.Willy B. Goodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00227682391989010006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-84032093736273440772009-04-26T05:41:00.000-07:002009-04-26T05:41:00.000-07:00This comment has been removed by the author.Willy B. Goodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00227682391989010006noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-2633345224325704702009-04-26T02:59:00.000-07:002009-04-26T02:59:00.000-07:00You know how it might have worked? If Cliff had be...You know how it might have worked? If Cliff had been yarning about a car he once owned and Norm (or Frasier?) realized after a moment he was quoting from the song. Well sort of worked.blogwardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07362291687463326731noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-91523026253952534242009-04-26T00:29:00.000-07:002009-04-26T00:29:00.000-07:00Great story. The other fast-car song that pops to ...Great story. The other fast-car song that pops to mind is "Beep Beep" by the Playmates. In my senior year, there were actually Jack-In-The-Boxes in New York. A bunch of us hit the drive-thru in Spring Valley and settled into the Shopper's Paradise lot across the street to feast. "Beep Beep" came on the radio and fascinatingly, as the song picked up speed, we caught ourselves unconsciously throwing food into our faces at a matching tempo.<br /><br />Took me days to clean the car out.<br /><br />Too long for a sitcom bit, but apparently the stuff of memories.Howard Hoffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05377628524697677407noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-19336675.post-53244064607119793462009-04-25T22:43:00.000-07:002009-04-25T22:43:00.000-07:00Being a longtime Mets fan, I'm very familiar with ...Being a longtime Mets fan, I'm very familiar with Gary Cohen. And I can picture him doing this (in my mind there's some average-looking mustachioed guy next to him, as I have no idea how Dan Hoard looks or sounds). And it cracks me up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com