phile writes:
>> Oregon's sorta green right now.
>> Maybe the green giant lives here?
>
> Well, the SONG is connected. An Oregon band who made it big in Seattle
> recorded "The Jolly Green Giant" on a lark whilst doing something they
> considered more important in the studio. It became their second national
> hit. Their first was a calypso number from the fifties, with a catchy
> rhythm guitar chord progression and the words mumbled so people speculated
> that it was obscene. THAT one has since been covered many times and even
> proposed on the floor of the Washington state legislature as the official
> state song.
Just so the right coast doesn't start feeling left out of this,
the voice of the Jolly Green Giant (H0-Ho-Ho...) was Mike Kellin,
from Nyack, N.Y.
timd@ptltd.com (Tim Dziechowski - Phoenix Technologies - Cambridge, Mass)
"You KNOW you've got cabin fever when you start thinking about
Jolly Green Giants instead of LBCs"
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