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Post by rayge on Mar 31, 2020 14:20:20 GMT
A Jackie Lynton - Teddy Bears Picnic
B Pancho the Parrot - I Left My Heart in San Francisco
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 15:09:32 GMT
B did make me laugh. Very briefly. It's obviously singer putting on a parrot tone. And most of it is thick syrup singing. I was hoping for something to give the Teddy Bear's Picnic a run for the money. While not entirely to my taste, it's still
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Post by toomanyhatz on Mar 31, 2020 18:17:58 GMT
A is very sweet, but is played a bit too straight to have the humor I like from the topic.
Pancho is the real deal - a star of the San Diego Wild Animal Park in the 80s, although I wasn't aware of him at the time. Now I'm going down the rabbit hole of his appearances on TV, including the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. So thanks, B!
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Post by Sneelock on Mar 31, 2020 18:26:14 GMT
A is no Rosemary Clooney so I'll add to the wave of "Pancho-Mania" B
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 18:32:31 GMT
Pancho is the real deal - a star of the San Diego Wild Animal Park in the 80s, although I wasn't aware of him at the time. Bloody hell!! Me too (watching him on youtube) *I'd still vote for A as generally I don't like most of B, and I recon they must have taped the parrot for hours at the very least. |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 18:53:34 GMT
This category is a bit of a chore for me. A has a nice production so I'll go for that, but it's not a song I ever need to hear because I'm not six.
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Post by oh oooh on Mar 31, 2020 19:35:04 GMT
This category is a bit of a chore for me. I'm with you. The odd fun song, but mostly it's been hard work. Neither of these appeal in the slightest. So once again, and I'm sorry ABSTAIN |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 20:45:03 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Mar 31, 2020 23:29:14 GMT
A freakin' singing parrot ? That's where we are at ? Vote A, I guess
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Post by DarknessFish on Apr 1, 2020 20:02:27 GMT
Well. There might be something about the production of A, but this is such a muffled sounding thing that I can't quite tell if the original would sound fuller, or if this is how it was meant to sound. Decent Elvis impersonator.
B sounds like a latterday Residents number. I mean, fair play to whoever tracked this thing down, it's a genuine novelty. But why the fuck would you track this down? It would've been better if it was just the parrot, really.
A
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Post by osgood on Apr 2, 2020 15:45:51 GMT
For not being B, I'll vote for
a
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Post by Half Machine Lipschitz on Apr 2, 2020 16:27:54 GMT
I guess I'm unsure of what makes a song qualify as a "novelty" tune. A just seems like an ill-advised choice of song to cover, whereas B is an actual novel concept - a singing parrot! (plus, Pancho's singing voice cracks me the fuck up whenever I hear it.)
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Post by oleandermedian on Apr 3, 2020 10:38:53 GMT
B wasn’t parroty enough! We’ll have barking cats next. Still, at least it had some actual novelty value. A subdued squawk for
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Post by fange on Apr 13, 2020 12:57:57 GMT
I'll take the parrot. On 2nd thought, you take it.
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Post by neige on Apr 25, 2020 13:43:42 GMT
First time I heard this version of A - I can dig it!
I like the idea of B, but come on, that's the cheesiest backing possible and the parrot doesn't even seem to have fun!
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