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A young boy visiting relatives in Pascagoula, Mississippi catches a wild squirrel, which he sneaks into the First Self-Righteous Church during a Sunday service. When the squirrel escapes his box, it heads into the overalls of one of the other parishioners, who jumps in shock and discomfort (thinking "he had a Weed Eater loose in his Fruit of the Looms").
The title for the 1938 Three Stooges film, Flat Foot Stooges, is a play on the song's title. [16] The Goodman version of the song is heard in the 1993 film, Swing Kids. [17] Burt Lancaster mentions the song as he strolls the boardwalk in Louis Malle's "Atlantic City" (1980). He remarks that Atlantic City had "a lot of floy floy then."
As the squirrel wreaks havoc, several members admit to their fellow congregation members their faults, and by song's end they all make a vow to change. "Furthermore" is a re-recording and partial rewrite of Stevens' 1962 single of the same name, this time done as a more serious down-tempo country music piece.
The song is noted for its scatting by the lead singer Ron Banks, and for the bass singer, Willie Ford, [1] saying "Look at me." The song was co-led by William "Wee Gee" Howard and Banks, with other lead parts shared by the other members, Larry "Squirrel" Demps and Elbert Wilkins.
[10] [11] In Cockney rhyming slang it was adopted to mean "squirrel", [12] and it was the title of the autobiography of Cyril Fletcher. [13] The phrase continued to be used in later decades, but limited to those named Cyril or similar; the refrain of the song "Nice one Cyril, nice one son" was used as a tribute to another footballer Cyrille ...
This Was is the debut studio album by the British rock band Jethro Tull, released in October 1968.Recorded at a cost of £1200, it is the only Jethro Tull album with guitarist Mick Abrahams, who was a major influence for the sound and music style of the band's first songs.
“It’s like when you have a fever and all you want to do is lay against your bathroom floor.” No, that flat squirrel in your yard isn’t dead. It’s just splooting.
The video depicts the band and a zoot suited Steve Perry performing the song to a group of swing dancers and punk rockers in a smoky lounge, intercut with various shots of surrealist and occult imagery. Legendary disc jockey Al "Jazzbo" Collins has a brief cameo as one of the club's patrons, singing along to a verse from the song. [12]