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"Lumberjack" (stylized in all caps) is a song by American rapper Tyler, the Creator, released on June 16, 2021, as the lead single from his seventh studio album, Call Me If You Get Lost. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The song samples the Gravediggaz track "2 Cups of Blood".
"Whistle" is a song by British DJ Jax Jones and British singer Calum Scott. It was released on 10 February 2023 via Polydor Records . "Whistle" peaked at number 14 on the UK Singles Chart .
William Phillips and Brian Cogan in the Encyclopedia of Heavy Metal Music referred to it as a "somewhat corny novelty hit". [3] The song's music video features John David Kaldoner, then the A&R executive of Geffen Records, portraying a lumberjack. Greg Vernon was the video's director. [4]
A somewhat different version of the sketch (leading into "The Lumberjack Song") was also featured on the Monty Python Live at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane album. [1] A longer edit of the Drury Lane version also appeared on the promotional flexidisc Monty Python's Tiny Black Round Thing .
Michael Palin performs "The Lumberjack Song", with Connie Booth as his "best girl.". The common theme was of an average man (usually Michael Palin, but in the City Center and Hollywood Bowl versions by Eric Idle) who expresses dissatisfaction with his current job (as a barber, weatherman, pet shop owner, etc.) and then announces, "I didn't want to be [the given profession].
The term lumberjack is of Canadian derivation. The first attested use of the term combining its two components comes from an 1831 letter to the Cobourg, Ontario, Star and General Advertiser in the following passage: "my misfortunes have been brought upon me chiefly by an incorrigible, though perhaps useful, race of mortals called lumberjacks, whom, however, I would name the Cossacks of Upper ...
Hal and Ginger Willis were inducted into the Canadian Country Music Hall of Fame in 2010. [ 2 ] On May 27, 2012, Hal Willis was also inducted to the Quebec Museum of Rock & Roll through a ceremony held in Rouyn-Noranda, Quebec, Canada at the international Festival des guitares du monde de l'Abitibi-Témiscamingue .
"(Nothing Serious) Just Buggin'" is the debut single by American hip hop and contemporary R&B group Whistle, from their 1986 eponymous debut studio album. It was first released as a single in 1985, and was a top ten hit and the group's only major success in the UK, where it peaked at No. 7 on the UK Singles Chart in early 1986. [ 1 ]