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#170- Telemarketer Blues (1997)
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Short, mildly humorous, upbeat blues with harmonica
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
Blues Jump Blues
Charts
Peak #132
Peak in subgenre #6
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
1997
Uploaded
August 10, 2008
Track Files
MP3
MP3 2.0 MB 128 kbps 2:11
Story behind the song
A true story many times over for me...and for you in all probability with some slight variations Weekly e-mail listeners didn't particularly care for this. They gave it a 3.0 out of 5.0....However, soundclick.com listeners took it into the top 10 of the sub-genre...making it one of my highest placed songs. I think it's not one of my best songs but it's one of my better performances I've done...which makes it more appealing. Comments included: "so so" "funny but just ok" "Nice harmonica" "Good vocal delivery" "great energy"
Lyrics
I'm watching the TV I'm cooking a meal I'm cleaning the yogurt off the stainless steel But just as I'm opening up the stove The phone rings I pick up with one hand A sales voice sings, "Is there a man of the house? Is the lady at home?" I say, "Don't bother me now, just leave me alone" My shower is ready I'm stepping right in When all of a sudden I hear the phone ring I run down the stairs I pick up the phone A sales voice says, "Is Mrs. Lincoln at home?" "There's no Mrs. Lincoln!" I say with a groan "Don't bother me now just leave me alone" The fork's in my mouth For my first bite I haven't yet chewed And I'm hungry tonight When out of the blue Comes a loud ring A chill down my spine but I've learned a few things My answering machine it's ready to moan "I've got the Telemarketer Blues now leave me alone" "I've got the Telemarketer Blues now leave me alone" "You can leave your message next to my own" BEEP
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