Gary D, the song that the Limelighters sing "Vasectomy" was written by a couple of friends of mine. Larry Heagle, from Eau Claire, WI was primarily credited and held the rights to it. I understand that my friend Robert "Oneman" Johnson, a close friend of Larrys, who at the time lived in Chippewa Falls, about fifteen minutes from Eau Claire, also had a hand in it's creation. He says that they finished it together one morning along with a six pack of Leinenkugel's beer. Larry, an entertainer, performs around the Minneapolis area. He plays guitar and sings silly songs and has recorded this song. He later sold it to the Limelighters who recorded it but not before I recorded it with a jug band I was playing with in the Seattle area called Strangers with Candy, 1988 "Strangers with Candy, Go Ape". I still play that song as do many of my friends who have heard me and have bought our recording. I saw the Limelighters on public tv perform a show, kind of a sixties reunion thing, and they sang it as the closing number in their set. They got a standing ovation. I on the other hand have gotten thrown out of restaurants and festivals for doing it and never been asked to return. I have to say though the positive reactions I've received for singing it over the years have far out weighed the bad and I still enjoy pulling that one out. If you need a copy I think I can help. Jonh W, you mentioned being from Salt Lake City. Are you familiar with a tune that Johnny Mercer popularized, some time in the fourties I think, it's called "I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City". I dug this one up from an old 78 rpm record, with a title like that how could I resist. It's basically a blues with a nice twist, it has a minor chord in the progression and a strange but silly sort of a spoken part in the middle. I've been playin' this one for years as well and too have had a chance to record it, again with that jug band I was with Strangers with Candy.

Reggie Miles