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The song's lyrics seem to make fun of the Cubs, referring to the team as "the doormat of the National League", and such references strained the relationship between Goodman and the team's executives. Goodman later composed "Go, Cubs, Go", which became the team's victory song. That song has been described as overly sentimental, and Goodman was ...
Goodman released the song on his 1971 debut album Steve Goodman to little acclaim. It was more famously recorded by country music singer David Allan Coe on his 1975 album Once Upon a Rhyme . It was the third single release of Coe's career and his first Top Ten hit, reaching a peak of number eight on the Billboard country singles charts.
Goodman's version was a number one pop hit. [3] The song has been recorded by many artists. It was the signature theme of the 1967 film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner , performed by nightclub singer Jacqueline Fontaine on camera, as well as over the opening and closing credits. [ 4 ]
If you've been shopping in a big box retail store you've probably heard an announcement on the loudspeaker such as, "code yellow toys, code yellow toys."
The song is featured on pop, soul, gospel and jazz recordings by others, among them: [4] [5] Toshiko Akiyoshi; The Ames Brothers; The Golden Gate Quartet; The Fairfield Four; Benny Goodman; Grant Green; Phil Harris; Bill Holman; The Larks; Louis Prima; Sonny Rollins; Bobby Scott; Kay Starr; Sister Rosetta Tharpe [6]
The word "smoke" appears on the front of the alarm below a button and "installed on" appears on the back. As mentioned, the model number is located on the product packaging.
The edited version, with some word and punctuation substitutions, appears in Goodman's posthumous Collected Poems. Hayden Carruth wrote that these substitutions were made hastily and cheapened Goodman's great poem into ordinariness for lessening the effect of the original poem's repetitions, formal expressiveness, and universality. [ 16 ]
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