Bob Kames, a Milwaukee businessman and minor recording artist died recently. He was in his early 80's and in declining health. You are all going, "Bob WHO?"
He had a string of organ/piano shops in the area, recorded something like 70 albums over the years and played for a while with Lawrence Welk. But what he was most famous for was popularizing a German tune in the early 1980s, The Chicken Dance. One year after he started to promote it, they put an organ out at midfield during the halftime show at a UW Badger football game. Nearly 80 thousand students and alumni did The Chicken Dance. They have done it every game since.
You can hardly go to a wedding nowdays without at somepoint being subjected to it.
I say, let's give a 21 cluck salute to this promoter of high culture.
On a personal note this is the first tiem I have posted anything at BC using our brandnew DSL conection. Unfortunately it has done nothing for my spelling. Or typing.
John in Wauwatosa
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Weddings?
You people up north really are weird! It's only done round here by drunk attendees at fake OktoberFests, though how they can get drunk on the watered down horse piss they call beer is beyond me. I'm ready to gag before I finish my first one.
What amazes me is we got this, and a mourning of what's-his-name from Swayback Mountain, yet nobody (myself included, I admit) said a word about losing one of the great actors of the 20th Century - Charlton Heston. They just don't make actors like him anymore, sad to say.
Karen J.
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose"
Janis Joplin
"Life is not measured by the breaths you take, but by the moments that take your breath away.”
George Carlin
Dumb Cluck
Every time I heard that song over the years I wondered "Who the hell would want to play that song?" Now I know. Obviously a product of the paint thinner they drink in WI.
Charlton Heston and Donald Rumsfeld went to the same high school. Holy Moses!
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Don't forget Richard Widmark
Another fine actor with a long carrer.
John in Wauwatosa
John in Wauwatosa
chickenchicken chickenchicken
the best chicken dancer ever!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUcTvhyof8I
What borders on pure insanity?
Canada and Mexico.
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On a side note...
Having the quicker DSl connection allows us to see your errore quicker. :0)
Skitt's Law
Something to consider: Skitt's Law. That's why I usually send such things via private message. :)
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