Catalogue: JASMCD 3533
Price Code: A
Release Date: 01/11/2002
Bar Code: 604988 35332 7
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Cliffie STONESings 'The Grunt Song' & Other Country Classics
 
One suspects that Cliffie Stone was not too serious
about his singing career, but nevertheless he achieved three Country hits in the
late 1940s with "Silver Stars, Purple Sage, Eyes Of Blue" (1947), "Peepin’
Through The Keyhole" and "When My Blue Moon Turns To Gold Again" (both 1948).
Stone appears to be in his element with novelty material such as the singular
"Grunt Song", a ditty with lavatorial overtones which subsequently has become a
cult classic. From the pen of Cousin Herb Henson comes "The Board Of Education",
the lyrics making it clear that the usually quoted title, "Bored Of Education",
is the wrong play on words. Billy Vaughn, the future musical dynamo of the Dot
label, wrote "Dirty Dishes", whilst humorist Stan Freberg was the collaborator
on "B-One Baby". Freberg began his professional career in 1943 performing vocal
impressions on a Cliffie Stone radio programme, and it was Stone’s band who
backed his first record (on Capitol) in 1950, "John And Marsha".Stone made sure
trends of the day were covered, as with "Jump Rope Boogie" from 1951 featuring
Jimmy Bryant on guitar and Billy Liebert on piano. On the flip was "The Hokey
Cokey" which doubtless inspired Ray Anthony’s 1953 better known version on
Capitol; a dispute about the authorship of the novelty dance tune arose when an
obscure group of Americans claimed they had written it in 1949 when in fact it
had been very popular in war-time England some years earlier. Also popular
around 1950 was Square Dancing and Stone cut a lot of sides to suit, none
bettered than caller Les Gotcher monotoning his way through "Square Dance
Boogie" and an adaptation of Peggy Lee’s song "Manana".
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