Comments on: Funky 4 You

By: pugzilla

pugzilla — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:44:18 +0000

Not my first game, though – that was in 1944 – but it doesn’t count, as my father told me years later that I spent the entire time looking at the airplanes overhead.

By: Cliff Corcoran

Cliff Corcoran — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 17:31:42 +0000

Worry not, it counts for a lot . . . 1948? That’s good timing. Right on time for five in a row . . .

By: pugzilla

pugzilla — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 15:57:50 +0000

Well, being on the wrong side of 70, my music really doesn’t include Hip-hop and the like…I’m stuck in the Bop – post Bop – mainstream era(s) of jazz. The current stuff, like (ack!) swing is (was) dancing music; jazz (like classical) is listening music.

But I’ve been a Yankee fan for 60 years! Don’t that count for nuttin’?

By: Raf

Raf — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 10:21:46 +0000

Pugzilla, Greg Nice was known for throwing together things that rhymed. Kinda like Noreaga a few years later.

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 03:30:54 +0000

[4] No Bitin’ Allowed! >;)

By: pugzilla

pugzilla — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:46:13 +0000

Could be…but is this what you mean?

“A–yo, Dizzy Gillespie played the sax!/Me myself, I like to max!/Red-Bone booties, I’m out to wax!/Stick-up kids is out to tax!”

By: Raf

Raf — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:36:42 +0000

pugzilla is unfamiliar with the works of Nice n Smooth :D

By: pugzilla

pugzilla — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 16:05:58 +0000

Dizzy, as far as I know, did not play a sax, at least on any recording with which I’m familiar. However, he did play piano for Miles when he (Miles) was just starting out (have the DVD somewhere….).

By: Chyll Will

Chyll Will — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 15:38:23 +0000

[0] I know; we just shook our heads and said “he needed something that rhymes and fits the flow”, and it’s otherwise cool:

Me, myself, I love to max!
Redbone booties I’m out to wax!
Stick-up kids is out to tax!

…just to get a rep! (couldn’t help it >;)

Did you know they were still touring? Who knew??

And as far as “Impeach the President”, Dana Dane (now hosting satellite radio’s BackSpin) used it most prominently, but Tragedy The Intelligent Hoodlum’s “Arrest The President” is the most gripping derivative (even if only by name >;)