The title of this blog comes from a Gaelic expression -"putting on the poor mouth"-which means to exaggerate the direness of one's situation in order to gain time or favour from creditors.
The Camp Granada song was a hit here I think... It was played a lot when I was a kid.
Not sure if his albums sold well here. Quite a few big stars never got an audience here. eg I love George Carlin but he is not known.. on teh otehr hand Bill Hicks was a lot bigger here than he was in the US,, fir waht that is worth
I guess there are no Alan Sherman clips on youtube.
ReplyDeleteMy father told me a white lie and told me he ate himself to death. It just fit the wacky image.
Au contraire, there are.. I only know the Camp Granada song myself
ReplyDeleteHe had two albums that were popular. One was called my son the Folk singer. They are rip roaring hysterical but dated.
ReplyDeleteThere was one song that was called Seltzer boy about an obnoxious customer in a resturant.
Great stuff just dated.
I will have to check.
How on earth did that Camp song get to the UK?????
ReplyDeleteOddly it was used in a Charmin Toilet paper commercial in the USA
The Camp Granada song was a hit here I think... It was played a lot when I was a kid.
ReplyDeleteNot sure if his albums sold well here. Quite a few big stars never got an audience here. eg I love George Carlin but he is not known.. on teh otehr hand Bill Hicks was a lot bigger here than he was in the US,, fir waht that is worth
beakerkin, are you sure? You do know that the music pre-dates the Sherman song by more than a century, don't you?
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