I only remember one Commander Cody song -- "Hot Rod Lincoln."
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>The Andrews Sisters did "Beat Me Daddy" back in the 40s but the Commander Cody was much more hard rocking boogie woogie. I think it's on Lost in the Ozone.
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>There are a dozen examples of the song on youtube - all with arrangements that suck - except this one that sounds like a Commander Cody cover band - at least they use his arrangement so it gives something of the Texas roadhouse flavor of it
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGrKW9hZ8jA>
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>>I didn't know that was the name of a song. There is a line that goes the same way in a song by The Rainmakers, "Let My People Go Go." Now there was a great rock band. They released three or four terrific CDs in the 1980s and then disappeared. Remember trusting me on Talking Heads eons ago? Trust me on this one, too. I see it's no longer in print but you can get it from a reseller.
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http://www.amazon.com/Rainmakers/dp/B000008JQC/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1236257457&sr=1-1>>
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>>>Bad pun riffs with you inevitably lead to musical madeleines.
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>>>While dredging for something on 'beat the topic to death' I got a flash of an evening at The Stone on Telegraph Ave. in Berkeley sometime in the 70s (even at the time - or especially at the time - I could not have been more specific than "sometime in the 70s") there was beer all over the dance floor and the band was playin' rhythm and blues ... and on the bandstand was Commander Cody with the Lost Planet Airmen and the spirit was upon him and he was playing "Beat me Daddy, Eight to the Bar" and it was something very special ...
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>>>( If this is what getting old is like, I kind of like it ... )
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>>>>>>>>>>Just to join in the fun: Personally, I think everyone should get their heads out of the sand and start learning F#. Why? Only because no one is talking about it here so it sounds like a good idea! :o)
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>>>>>>>>>But just be perverse, I will continue to think of it as Gb.
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>>>>>>>>Drink some Hi-C and you won't feel so perverse
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>>>>>>>I am perverse just to B natural.
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>>>>>>Just think how perverse you would be if instead of being an independent you were on a staff.
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>>>>>At least I would be duly noted.
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>>>>And measured.
