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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.
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 ]
The song is named after Bobcaygeon, Ontario, a town in the Kawartha Lakes region about 160 kilometres (99 mi) northeast of Toronto.The song's narrator works in the city as a police officer, a job he finds stressful and sometimes ponders quitting, but unwinds from the stress and restores his spirit by spending his weekends with a loved one in the rural idyll of Bobcaygeon, where he sees "the ...
"I and I" is a song by Bob Dylan that appears as the seventh track (or song number three on Side 2 of the LP) of his 1983 album Infidels. [2] Recorded on April 27, 1983, [3] it was released as a single in Europe in November of that year, featuring a version of Willie Nelson's "Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground" as its B-side. [4]
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]
The music video references the recording of Dylan's song, "Subterranean Homesick Blues" in the 1967 D. A. Pennebaker documentary Dont Look Back. [3] The video for "Bob" is similarly shot in black-and-white, and in the same back-alley setting, with Yankovic dressing as Dylan and dropping cue cards that have the song's lyrics on them, as Dylan did in the film.
In 1917, a ragtime piano song entitled "Ching Chong" was co-written by Lee S. Roberts and J. Will Callahan. [5] Its lyrics contained the following words: "Ching, Chong, Oh Mister Ching Chong, You are the king of Chinatown. Ching Chong, I love your sing-song, When you have turned the lights all down."
The lyrics of "To Ramona" were started by Bob Dylan at the May Fair Hotel in London in May 1964, and finished during a week-long stay in the Greek village of Vernilya later that month; [2] at least seven other songs, including "It Ain't Me Babe" and "All I Really Want to Do", were completed during the same visit. [3]