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rev. paperboy (god is an iron) Started conversation Mar 16, 2003
Might have know you would be a tom leher fan....obviously a person of taste. Are you familiar with Lord Buckley? I can't seem to find an entry for him, so that may need to be my next project.
tom leher
Mu Beta Posted Mar 16, 2003
Not in the slightest - the name doesn't even ring a bell with me.
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rev. paperboy (god is an iron) Posted Mar 17, 2003
He was an american nightclub performer in the 30,40s and 50s who adopted an afro-american hipster jazz lingo for his impassioned story telling
for example his verison of Marc Antony's funeral oration in Shakespeare's ("Big Willie the Shake" as Buckley called him)Julius Caesar
"Hipsters, flipsters, and finger-poppin' daddies,
Knock me your lobes,
I came to lay Ceasar out,
Not to hip you to him.
The bad jazz that a cat blows,
Wails long after he's cut out.
The groovey is often stashed with their frames"
He was a big influence on people like Lenny Bruce and Jonathan Winters. Ken Kesey once described him as "something that people pass under the table." George Harrison was a big fan and his song "Crackerbox Palace" is about Buckley's home in LA
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