1. Apparently his name actually was Paul Revere. Sort of.
2. These geezers were still touring.
I’m sorry he’s dead and all, but Paul Revere & The Raiders had a single big hit which I loath almost as much as In The Ghetto, and which the pop stations played so constantly it came across like some sort of demented FCC torture technique, and that made them special in my memory. Seriously, when the Jackson Five reached this level of ubiquitous awfulness I pulled the radio right out of my ’70 Maverick and hired a body shop to pave over the hole where the antenna used to be.
I always liked the tune of “Cherokee Nation”, but the sentiment, as with so many, many songs, was utter rubbish. I wonder if there’s an instrumental version out there somewhere…
I kinda like “In the Ghetto”…when Eric Cartman sings it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqTKZgEW8pM
Be ready to laugh, don’t be holding that cup of coffee.
FOMCL and ROTF, my coffee went on the floor. Hadn’t seen this, so glad you posted it.
Yeah, that one’s a classic. Rush Limbaugh played it over and over back during the Clinton admin, as I recall, and Paul Shanklin’s been in steady work ever since.
The poor Native Americans. They had the land stolen that they had spent thousands of years stealing from each other. Noble savages…..
That yugo thing; someone owes me a new keyboard, I’m a quarter Osage, I am entitled. Damn white people.