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[caddyman]

Sylvia Smother is a strange girl.

She always refers to herself in the third person. That's odd.

And impolite....

"Sylvia Smother says Sylvia's busy, too busy to come to the phone
Sylvia Smother says Sylvia's trying, to start a new life of her own.
Sylvia Smother says "Sylvia's happy...
So why don't you leave her alone?"
And the operator says : "Forty cents more, for the next three minutes."

There's evidence of schizophrenia there, too...

Comments

[cybersofa.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the reminder of that Shel Silverstein classic this morning. We don't hear enough Dr Hook these days.

No-one else having arrived at the office I think it may be time for a brief rendition of Quaaludes Again.

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[caddyman.livejournal.com]

Are Dr Hook still going with all those 2 minute songs of theirs?

I don't recall Quaaludes Again, but the words are something special.

[cybersofa.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you didn't get the full effect - the delivery's quite something, too. No, Dr Hook broke up in about 1985 I think, less commercially successful than they were influential. Quaaludes Again was recorded by Silverstein himself, file obscurely under Country. Popmusic made a great deal more sense after I discovered that that, Sylvia Smother and A Boy Named Sue were all by the same chap. And so much more - what talent. I exposed huskyteer to a copy of Where The Sidewalk Ends at quite a young age, but I wouldn't put it high on her list of influences.