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Later, his wife said she was looking forward to having toast the next morning, and he started improvising a song about toast while playing a bongo. [9] Heywood frequently appears on the nationally syndicated radio program The Bob and Tom Show. His most popular and widely known song is called "Toast", played on a toaster with a pair of forks.
Tim Bedore (born c. 1956) is an American comedian born in Chicago.His parents moved to Stevens Point, Wisconsin when he was a child. He attended Pacelli High School (Wisconsin) in Stevens Point and the Appleton High School-West, where he graduated.
However, "Toast" received heavy airplay from Kenny Everett on Capital Radio and this led to the sides being flipped and "Toast" being released as the A-side a month later. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Helped by the airplay, the song became successful, peaking at number 18 on the UK Singles Chart in November. [ 4 ]
Da Vinci's Notebook (or simply DVN) was a comedic a cappella singing group. Former Artists-in-Residence at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, they performed specials on Comedy Central and PBS, and spent time as the "house band" on Washington radio's WBIG-FM.
An additional version of "Toast To Freedom" was recorded – both audio and video formats – by the vocal collective of Pavel Artemiev, Jenia Lubich, and Russia's top a capella beatbox group, The Jukebox Trio, the group, which initially broadcast a live version of the song on the Channel One late night show, Evening Urgant.
The song has five verses, each with nine lines. [11] The lyrics appear to address a love triangle, and the narrator's memories of a separation from a former lover. [11] Scholar of English literature Michael Rodgers wrote that "the song is notable for its vitriol and how much the speaker acts the clown". [11]
Billboard described this version as an "exciting rouser from the pen of Bob Dylan with an outstanding performance by the trio." [5] Cash Box described it as "a rhythmic, fast-moving bluesy ditty on warm-hearted somewhat euphoric theme." [6] Record World called it "a moving Bob Dylan song" and that there is "joy, joy, joy in [the trio's] voices ...
"Harlem Shuffle" is an R&B song written and originally recorded by the duo Bob & Earl in 1963. The song describes a dance called the “Harlem Shuffle”, and mentions several other contemporary dances of the early 1960s, including the Monkey Shine, the Limbo, the Hitch hike, the Slide, and the Pony.