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"Dead Skunk" is a 1972 novelty song by Loudon Wainwright III. Released as a single in November 1972, it eventually peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on March 31, 1973 and appears on Wainwright's 1972 album Album III .
Wainwright is perhaps best known for the 1972 novelty song "Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)" and for playing Captain Calvin Spalding (the "singing surgeon") on the American television show M*A*S*H. His appearances spanned three episodes in the show's third season (1974–1975). [6]
Album III is the third full-length album from Loudon Wainwright III.It was originally released in 1972 on Columbia Records. Album III would spawn Loudon Wainwright's most popular hit single, "Dead Skunk", one of the many 'novelty songs' sprinkled throughout Wainwright's career.
Chart-Topping Crazy Hits – "Dead Skunk" (2004, Compass Productions / Warner Special products) Golden Slumbers: A Father's Love – "Daughter" (2005, Rendezvous Records ) Roll With It: 16 Songs About Drinking, Dope, and Disorderly Conduct – "Drinking Song" (2008, Uncut Magazine )
Produced with a vast array of session musicians and backing singers, the album was an extraordinary amalgam of country rock, folk, gospel, soul and choral music with poetic, mystical lyrics. [10] It was praised by critics, but its production costs of $100,000 which yielded only eight tracks prompted Geffen to berate Clark and Kaye.
D. D.O.A. (song) Daddy Never Was the Cadillac Kind; Dancing (Kylie Minogue song) Dead Embryonic Cells; Dead Skunk; Death (Melanie Martinez song) Death (Trippie Redd song)
"Dead Skunk Song" "Song at the Ready" "When I Was a Young Girl" (lyrics only, to the tune of "The Ash Grove") "Where the Emerald Kudzu Twines" "The World They Call Terra" "Down in Holes" (lyrics only, to the tune of "Frère Jacques") "The Firelizard Song" "The Seas of Space"
Songwriter and performer Loudon Wainwright III released his deadpan humorous song, "Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)" in 1972, and it peaked at number 16 on the Billboard Hot 100. [84] The American band Phish frequently [85] plays the song "Possum", originally from the album The Man Who Stepped into Yesterday at its concerts. The song ...