What's worse: the ides of March...or the fools of April? Come back to this blog often enough and I bet you'll say it's the latter. There's a whole slew of bad, weird and otherwise unusual music waiting to knock you silly this month. And the first of it is right here in this post. I'd preface this but it would ruin the surprise. And boy will you be surprised.
Yep...that's the uneasiest rider ever. Somehow the song takes on a whole new meaning when that guy does it. It's from one of the many soundalike albums from QMO Sales, a prime perpetrator of those "as-seen-on-TV" records. Not as well known as K-Tel, Ronco or Adam-7, QMO certainly was prolific. Groups like Northern Lights and The Sound Effects (heard here) got together and did an album of the day's hits every season or so. When they weren't screwing around with inflection, they were messing up words...or just singing along to the song they were covering. On some songs they managed to do both. Listen all the way through, if you can stand to:
Just so you know, there's more - a LOT more - where these came from. They may not all be quite like this...but they're gonna be here sooner or later.
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