I don't know where to begin here except to say I have no idea what this song of Dan's is about. Something about a Chinese man carrying a light weight trunk handing out candy to little children... wha-WHAAAAT???
Dan also made this little video, which similarly creeps the bejeezuz outta me. I'm not sure why, but it might have something to do with that awful attempt at a Chinese accent Dan does when the character in the song is handing out candies... "Here's some candy for you too - everybody get candy! Ooooh, I didn't leave you out! Here's candy for YOUUUUUU TOOOOOO!!!!"
Then there's the subtle mix-ups which I can only assume were non-intentional - where the song references a Chinese monk, but then mentions Japan? And that part that goes "I'm so sorry-NARA!" (Sayonara) - that's Japanese for "goodbye" isn't it? And what's in that light weight trunk? What frightens me even more is that I'm even spending a minute pondering this!
Oh, I'm so Confucious!!....
Anyway..... enjoy.... I think.......
...dear god in heaven, if you really exist and can hear my prayer...PLEASE LET ME UNHEAR THIS!!!!
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ReplyDeleteHa HA , one of my favorite songs I ever did , I am so proud of this song , the chinese character was imitation of Tony Randall's Chinese character in the movie "Seven Face Of Doctor Lao" where he acted and talk just like that. The mixing of Chinese & Japanese words and culture was a word play in a poetic way to combine the 2 countries because they always had bitter disputes against each other through the centuries and I was making a song of peace for both and to show how really connected they really are but the main reason I'm really proud of this song , it was one of my few songs that I was actually doing a early Hary Nillson poetic story song , that's why I talked in the song to make it sound like a story track for a film , it was recorded really good where the vocal was way up on the mix but pounding drums and back instruments still sounded loud up with the mix , it's very hard to mix a talking vocal with a backing music track because the backing track will lose it's power when mixed down to make way for the dialogue , but it worked with this one. Also The Storybook 2 CD which has all melodic songs on it was good to have this song as a break in monotony of of all the melodic music. I am very grateful that I got all my CDs back after losing them but man , I don't have Storybook 2 , that CD really had some awesome songs I di including "All The Angels Sing Along" which was my masterpiece. Hopefully Donald or Joe can find that CD , the public really need to here that album.
ReplyDeleteI don't have it, that's for sure - but didn't you upload that Storybook 2 album of yours to one of those music sites? I could'a sworn you did...
ReplyDelete...but let's get back to that Chinese guy... did you HAVE to do that Jerry Lewis, way over the top, Coke-bottle glasses, buck-toothed, Joe Jitsu-sounding...
Yeah , all my albums were uploaded to that website that was taken down , remember ?. I also know for a fact that Joe has it , it's just that he has find it in all his boxes. You definatly was sent a copy years back becsue you mentioned you love "All The Angels Sing Along" to me and I remember sending it , it's just mayby it wasn't destroyed in your accident in the attic or mayby it was , who knows.
DeleteHa Ha , I had to do it that way , that's how Tony Randall did it in the movie.
DeleteDan, you're going to be SO HAPPY - I found a stash of cassettes thought lost for good and I'm going through them one by one - I actually FOUND "Man With A Light Weight Trunk" among other great finds, and I'm in the process of digitizing them now! Check out the most recent blog entry!
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