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#115- Simpler Times (1991)
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Tongue in cheek and dark doo woppish anti-1950's rough sketch of a song
folk funny political sixties novelty gentle prolific idiosyncratic lehrer jefferson airplane ochs paxton steve goodman
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Tom Paxton meets Jefferson Airplane. Extremely prolific singer songwriter with a wide range of styles from bizarre novelty tunes and surrealistic poetic songs t
With more than 300 songs and counting and for more than 30 years, I have written in a variety of acoustic styles from novelty tunes to love songs to historical ballads to poetic surrealistic songs to retro-acoustic pop. From bizarre to traditional from funny to poignant, whatever style the song is in, the melodies are usually memorable and the lyrics unpredictable. This site will eventually contain rough often first take demos of my entire song catalogue. Many of the earliest songs when I first started writing will of course be shaky. So expect the songs to get better as time goes on. Feel free to come back and browse often as I will constantly be adding songs, one by one in chronological order, starting in 1974. If you are looking for some unusual songs to cover from a little known but unique artist, you have come to the right place. Just e-mail me. If you find a song here that intrigues you, but you don't like a line or two, or you think it needs a bridge, drop me an e-mail and maybe you can earn writer's credit if it gets that song to be recorded or performed.... otherwise just enjoy. You can become a Rob Lincoln fan at no cost to you. I promise that if you keep coming back there will be some real surprises along the way. While mostly acoustic, some original material will veer into folk rock and even 60's pop, but the garage rock and loudest material will also be found in full band arrangement at soundclick.com/abrasiveflowers Eventually some of these 300+ tunes may be rerecorded and make it on to CD, including a novelty CD that would be suitable for Dr. Demento or an historical ballad CD or a political song CD--but until then, this is the only site you can hear most of these songs. (A few of my songs CAN be found on songramp.com/RobLincoln and myspace.com/lessickandlincoln)
Song Info
Genre
Rock Surf Rock
Charts
#282 in subgenre Peak #7
Charts
Peak #414
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1991
Uploaded
December 30, 2007
Track Files
MP3
MP3 3.4 MB 128 kbps 3:45
Story behind the song
A song based on the false ideal that the 1950's were a wonderful time. This actually was based on a poem I wrote 10 years earlier. It was also similar in concept to an earlier song I wrote called the Cold war Twist. This one however, is darker and not really that funny. Strange thing is it now seems I'm talking about the present era more than ever before. Mp3 Club listeners gave this a 3.9 out of 5.0...Some comments included: "This one is pretty good!" I like this one" "Nice falsetto" "I could like this one a lot better if it was more fully produced"
Lyrics
Let's hear it now for simpler times When black was black and white was white Bobby sockers and tight blue jeans man everything was peachy keen In simpler times Simpler times Let's hear it now for black and white tv When all the families were squeaky clean Ozzie and Harriet, Howdy Doody too Crew cuts, 3-D glasses and hula hoops In simpler times Simpler times Sha la la la (3x) Sha la la la la lies Happy days I love Lucy but I hate reds too Festus in Nevada radiation goo Mushroom clouds kept in the dark Lying through their teeth Francis Powers, Ricky Riccardo and joe McCarthy In simpler times Simpler times Sha la la la (3x) Sha la la la la lies I like Ike--U-2 (You too?) There's only one way that's true Simpler times Uh oh simpler times Simpler times
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