Origins: Spirit in the Sky

Subject: Spirit in the sky
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:23 PM

Please can you tell me who wrote this and can someone send me a copy of the original song.
Thank you.
Scooby Doo

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:27 PM

Norman Greenbaum, I believe. I am told that the LP it came from was ALL "Born again Christian" type songs and Spirit was the pnly catchy one
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:40 PM

Thanks Geoff,all i need is a copy now.I will pay postage and packing.
Scooby Doo

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:54 PM

Norman's web site - http://www.spiritinthesky.com/music.htm

And some lyrics -
from a Lyrics site.

Quack!
GtD.

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Alba
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 03:57 PM

Wicked good song:) Still one of my all time favs
Best Wishes
Jude

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: michaelr
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 04:37 PM

Trivium: Norman Greenbaum worked in this area (NorCal) as a short-order cook for years, and would get quite upset if someone recognized him and asked about the song.

(I wouldn't want to be associated with that thing, either.)

Cheers,
Michael

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Peace
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 04:42 PM

The Devil is making me post this:

Judy In Disguise
By: John Fred & His Playboy Band
(J. Fred - A. Bernard)

Judy in disguise, well that's what you are
Lemonade pie with a brand new car
Cantaloupe eyes come to me tonight
Judy in disguise with glasses

Keep a-wearing your bracelets and your new rara
Cross your heart - yeh - with your living bra
Chimney sweep sparrow with guise
Judy in disguise with glasses

Come to me tonight, come to me tonight
Taking everything in sight
Except for the strings on my kite

Judy in disguise, hey that's what you are
Lemonade pies hey got your brand new car
Cantaloupe eyes come to me tonight
Judy in disguise with glasses

Come to me tonight, come to me tonight
Taking everything in sight
Except for the strings on my kite

Judy in disguise, well what you aiming for
A circus of horrors, yeah, well that's what you are
You made me a life of ashes
I guess I'll just take your glasses


The course of young love doth never run smooth[ly].

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 04:46 PM

It looks like i have brought up a bad subject for Norman,i did not mean too.
I would like to hear the original.
Scooby Doo.

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 04:55 PM

There is a music clip playing on the official website.
Quack!
GtD

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 05:08 PM

I have listened to that Geoff,thanks for reminding me.All i need now is the CD before next February.
Love you all Quack.
Scooby Doo

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: pdq
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 05:13 PM

Trivium: Norman Greenbaum came from the Jim Kweskin Jug Band where he used the pseudonym 'Nero Wolf'.

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: bobad
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 05:25 PM

The Norman Greenbaum story

Also don't miss checking out the link to The radical Jewish chicken farmers of Petaluma

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: bobad
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 05:26 PM

My apologies, the second link seems to be non-functional.

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: GUEST,Scooby Doo
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 05:32 PM

I am on my laptop now and i did try the second link,don't worry about it bobad.
Scooby Doo

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: GUEST,Scooby doo
Date: 13 Aug 06 - 06:03 PM

When did doc and the medics sing the above song?.
Scooby Doo

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: michaelr
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 12:35 AM

Radical leftist Jewish chicken ranchers!

http://www.jewishchickenranchers.com/history/
http://www.columbia.edu/~lnp3/mydocs/jewish/Petaluma.htm

Check it out.

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Geoff the Duck
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 09:41 AM

At a guess, sometime between 1990 and 1994 when I was working for Yorkshire Water. Probably closer to 92.
Quack!
Geoff.

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: GerryMc
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 09:49 AM

my neighbour's brother used to sing along to that when he was young...

"I've got a friend in cheese sauce (Jesus)"

My daughter still sings that now, and she's 23 now.

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: bobad
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 10:17 AM

Thanks for getting those links that I screwed up michaelr.

That is certainly a piece of fascinating American social history.

I've been around many rural areas of Canada and had never encountered Jewish farmers until I ended up in my present location. In an area where the farmers are, by and large, of old United Empire Loyalist or French Canadian stock with a more recent wave of immigrants from the Netherlands and Switzerland, I came across a dairy farm which during the Christmas season, has displayed on it's silo a large, illuminated star of David. Somehow this symbol of divesity heartens me.

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Nick
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 10:35 AM

Peace

I once turned a copy of Judy in Disguise into a flower bowl. Vinyl over a heat source used to work really well

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: pdq
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 11:39 AM

...what do you do with an unwanted LP by Black flag, Snoop Eats Dog Poop, Babs Streisand or Nirvana...

                               here ya go

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Cool Beans
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 11:59 AM

Bruno Wolf, not Nero Wolf. Nero Wolf was a fictional detective. Norman Greenbaum was also responsible for "The Eggplant That Ate Chicago." Add "Spirit in the Sky" and that gives him three more claims to fame than I. Not bad.

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: GUEST,Earl
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 12:43 PM

Bruno Wolf and Norman Greenbaum are not the same person. I believe this rumor orginated on the internet. He was in Dr. West's Medicine Show when he recorded "The Eggplant that Ate Chicago". Whether he is the same person as Dr. West, I can't say.

BTW, Joni Mitchel was never married to the director of "Porky's" either.

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: katlaughing
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 12:45 PM

Ah, jaysus, pdq! Not knowing any better and thinking it was "totally kewl," I did that to some old vinyls as a young teen in the late 60's! Didn't know anyone was dumb enough to do that to them, anymore! I esp. regret doing it to a red one!

kat

Subject: RE: Spirit in the sky
From: Scooby Doo
Date: 14 Aug 06 - 02:37 PM

I asked for a sensible answear to a question.Since then the thread has had abuse and crap thrown at it.I am ashamedof been a member of this group.
Scooby doo