Surfin Gorilla's Christmas
Surfin Gorilla's Christmas
(Sookman)
Sometimes when Scott Sookman starts talking about his latest idea he will begin channeling what I imagine to be a 60-ish leisure suit-wearing cigar-chomping old school record promoter named Morty. It's eerie. He was wearing this persona when selling the goods (i.e. this song) to the Pop Machine guys.
The idea revolves around a fictional 60's novelty record called "Surfin' Gorilla" which was recorded a few years back. Well, what would be more natural for a quickie follow-up than a Christmas record? Sook put together some new lyrics (personal fave: "Jimmy got a woody, and Suzy got the wax"), pressed the original backing track into service and Voila! Another track for the Pop Machine Christmas catalog.
Following the logic of the concept, we took another sterling Dave Waterbury production and mixed it into mono and then from there into crappy fake stereo. We then added scratchy record sound effects for a true 60's audio verite experience. You're welcome.
Al: Backing vox, Chimes
Sook: Lead & backing vox, percussion
Dave: Guitar, bass, drums, gorilla
(Sookman)
Sometimes when Scott Sookman starts talking about his latest idea he will begin channeling what I imagine to be a 60-ish leisure suit-wearing cigar-chomping old school record promoter named Morty. It's eerie. He was wearing this persona when selling the goods (i.e. this song) to the Pop Machine guys.
The idea revolves around a fictional 60's novelty record called "Surfin' Gorilla" which was recorded a few years back. Well, what would be more natural for a quickie follow-up than a Christmas record? Sook put together some new lyrics (personal fave: "Jimmy got a woody, and Suzy got the wax"), pressed the original backing track into service and Voila! Another track for the Pop Machine Christmas catalog.
Following the logic of the concept, we took another sterling Dave Waterbury production and mixed it into mono and then from there into crappy fake stereo. We then added scratchy record sound effects for a true 60's audio verite experience. You're welcome.
Al: Backing vox, Chimes
Sook: Lead & backing vox, percussion
Dave: Guitar, bass, drums, gorilla
posted by Allan at
10:53 PM
2 Comments:
Yes, but I'm such a smart ass I would only find it funny if we did a song about a car that didn't even remotely deserve to have a car song written about it.
The most obvious candidate would be the Edsel, but they stopped making that in 1960. How about a tribute to Ralph Nader's favorite, the Corvair? Or the Nash Rambler? Or The Studebaker Golden Hawk? I got a million of 'em.
Would the Yugo be too obvious?
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