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#249-Two Darrens-LIVE (2002)
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Goofy song for lovers of 60's sitcoms
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
Charts
Peak #175
Peak in subgenre #34
Author
Rob Lincoln
Rights
2002
Uploaded
October 27, 2009
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MP3 2.6 MB 117 kbps 3:07
Story behind the song
The co-star of one of the top rated TV shows of the 1960's, Dick York (who played Darren Stevens, married to witch Samantha) was forced to leave the show due to severe back pain and was replaced by another actor Dick Sargent. York was an intense actor; Sargent was genteel. They were the same character but played completely different...which is the story behind this song.
Lyrics
I know how strange it sounds No two feet on the ground I am a Dick, you'll see But is it York or Sargent that's me? It started hard enough I married a witch it was rough She was a brilliant blonde Who didn't need a wand But there's two Darrens that are inside of me Two Darrens are struggling to be free And each one's a part of my personality York's Darren is so passionate He's such a feisty gent Puts the weight of the world on his aching back And in fact he can really act Sargent's Darren is quite milqutoast Loves his work and family the most The epitome of the bourgoise He'd whimper on Andorra's whipping post But there's two Darrens that are inside of me Two Darrens are struggling to be free And either way I need a Dr. Bombay So witch one is more two? It's Old York of course what is new But my life has been beyond heck, it's hell Cause I'm under this twin killing spell But there's two Darrens that are inside of me Two Darrens are struggling to be free There's two Darrens that are inside of me And niether one is really sleeping with Elizabeth Montgomery So let me be One Tony On I Dream of Jeannie
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