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28 May 05 - 06:05 AM (#1494907) Subject: Lyr Req: Song about TV Dinners From: GUEST,Cookie Does anybody know the title and/or artist of this old song? I don't know the title or artist, but it was heard at a bar in Austin LONG time ago; the lyrics I remember go as such: "TV dinner is a dish that I'm lovin', you take off the foil, twenty minutes in the oven; get a loada RC Cola TV dinner Plate of twinkies and it takes a pink burrito, for to keep me clean. (For to keep me clean)" Thanks Cookie |
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28 May 05 - 03:01 PM (#1495080) Subject: Lyr Add: TV DINNERS (ZZ Top) From: GUEST The group is ZZ Top. The song is TV DINNERS. TV dinners, there's nothin' else to eat. TV dinners, they really can't be beat. I like 'em frozen but you understand I throw 'em in and wave 'em and I'm a brand new man, oh yeah. TV dinners, they're goin' to my head. TV dinners, my skin is turnin' red. Twenty-year-old turkey in a thirty-year-old tin. I can't wait until tomorrow and thaw one out again, oh yeah. TV dinners, I'm feelin' kinda rough. TV dinners, this one's kinda tough. I like the enchiladas and the teriyaki too. I even like the chicken if the sauce is not too blue. And they're mine, all mine, oh yeah And they sure are fine. Gotta have 'em, Gimme somethin' now. Excess '?' deleted. --JoeClone, 1-Jun-05. |
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28 May 05 - 03:03 PM (#1495082) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about TV Dinners From: GUEST Sorry--don't know where those question marks came from--I added in apostrophes that weren't in the lyrics posted on the ZZ Top site. |
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28 May 05 - 03:04 PM (#1495083) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about TV Dinners From: GUEST,sixtieschick sorry sorry sorry - the two previous posts were from me. Not having a good day. |
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28 May 05 - 05:23 PM (#1495140) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about TV Dinners From: GUEST,Cookie Thanks for trying but that isn't the song. ZZ Top is a new artist (2000). I'm looking for a song from the 50s or 60s. |
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28 May 05 - 06:32 PM (#1495186) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about TV Dinners From: GUEST 'Get a Load of This' by Cheap Suit Serenaders? |
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28 May 05 - 06:58 PM (#1495196) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about TV Dinners From: GUEST,Cookie Thanks for the info. I just found the song. |
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29 May 05 - 09:45 AM (#1495457) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about TV Dinners From: Blackcatter Not that it really matters, but while ZZ Top hasn't been around since the 50s, their first album was released in 1970, so they're a 35 year old rock band. That album was most appropriately entitled "ZZ Top's First Album" They've released 14 albums - most recently in 1999. |
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29 May 05 - 04:44 PM (#1495627) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about TV Dinners From: Peace The lyrics this GUEST Cookie character remembers from Austin are punctuated exactly as are these found with a goole of 'and it takes a pink burrito'. I wouldn't waste any time on this character. BS--which seems to be what the post started wit--belongs below the line, IMO. Date: Wed, 9 Mar 1994 13:21:43 -0500 (EST) From: Subject: This is a foul turn of events... To: Donkey If smoking becomes illegal, how many of you who have quit intend to take it up again, just out of spite? If guns are outlawed, will Robert's feet receive sufficient ventilation in his next vehicle? How many of you have given up sex, at least for Lent? How many of you have given up sex because you don't make enough money to induce anybody to sleep with you? How many of you like to offend people at your parent's parties by prefacing every remark, ala Phil Ochs, "Here in Fascist America..."? Malibu Skipper Compiling Data "TV dinner is a dish that I'm lovin', you take off the foil, twenty minutes in the oven; get a loada RC Cola TV dinner Plate of twinkies and it takes a pink burrito, for to keep me clean. (For to keep me clean)" R. Crumb |
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01 Jun 05 - 09:24 AM (#1497341) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Song about TV Dinners From: Jim Dixon I found this quote, which I'd bet is a better transcription. Why would a burrito be pink? Why would it need to be pink? Don't want no carrots. Don't want no peas, But a big burrito brings me to my knees. So, bring a load of RC Cola, TV Dinner, a plate of Twinkies. It takes a big burrito for to keep me clean. The song is GET A LOAD OF THIS, recorded by R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders on their first album, "R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders," Blue Goose LP 2014, 1974. The song was credited to Robert E Armstrong and Allan Dodge, members of the Cheap Suit Serenaders. This recording was also included on a Dr. Demento anthology, "Dr. Demento's Delights," Warner Brothers LP BS-2855, 1975. My guess is, Cookie overestimated the age of the song. However, there is also a tune (no lyrics) called GET A LOAD OF THIS, recorded by The Red Heads (an earlier version of Red Nichols and His Five Pennies) in 1926. It was written by Eddie Lang and Arthur Schutt. You can hear it at The Red Hot Jazz Archive. Is it possible that the Serenaders lifted the earlier tune and wrote words to it? I don't know; I haven't heard the Serenaders' song, but the earlier tune comes from the right era and sounds like the kind of music R. Crumb likes to do. |
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06 Dec 05 - 07:27 PM (#1621564) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Get a Load of This (from R Crumb) From: GUEST,jomabu the red heads tune is not the same as the cheap suits'. and it really is a pink burrito -- i think it's in line with the kitschiness of tv dinners in general, similar to pink-flocked christmas trees or pink flamingos on the lawn. |
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06 Dec 05 - 09:01 PM (#1621601) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Get a Load of This (from R Crumb) From: Barbara Well, I remember the "Get a load a tune from the SF Bay area" when I lived there, until 1979, and at that point it was a big burrito, and probably the cheap suit serenaders were doing it. I, only having heard it sung, thought it was a Texas big burrito, not "It takes a..." Guess the burrito went from Texas to pink over the years... and the tune is different than the REd Heads tune. Blessings, Barbara |
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29 Mar 06 - 11:55 AM (#1705715) Subject: Lyr Add: GET A LOAD OF THIS (from R Crumb) From: GUEST,Comic Book Fan The song is "get a load of this" by R. Crumb and His Cheap Suit Serenaders. This is the full song. It is a Red Heads tribute but completely original. Funny how so many people posted who had no idea what was going on. My girl was over but I sent her away Cuz she almost knocked the supper off my TV tray. Bringt a loada RC Cola TV dinner Plate of twinkies and it takes a pink burrito, for to keep me clean. For to keep me clean.
TV dinner is the meal that Im lovin
Don't want no carrots. Can't stand no peas,
Girlfriend switching like no other.
Only One thing makes me jump up and holler. |
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29 Mar 06 - 05:18 PM (#1706017) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Get a Load of This (from R Crumb) From: 12-stringer "Pink Burrito" is a rewrite of the 1930 Charley Jordan hit, "Keep It Clean." Went to the river, couldn't get across Jumped on your daddy, I thought he was a hoss Rode him over, give him Coca Cola, Lemon soda, saucer of ice cream, Takes soap and water Baby just to keep it clean. If ya wanna hear that elephant laugh Take him down to the river, wash his yas-yas-yas Your daddy was a grizzly and your mama was a bear Gonna put the muzzle on ya cause ya got bad hair and more, including the inevitable #2 and #3. At least the first two are listenable/downloadable at the Blues and Gospel Listening Room from juneberry78s.com, but you have to request a password to access the collection. It's been reissued on LP and CD, more than once. Grossman's "Country Blues Guitar" from Oak tabs it; it's in E, for "pretty Easy." It was a Dave Van Ronk standard for years, which is probably where the rewriter got the song. Van Ronk's was the first version I ever heard, back in the late 60s. Somewhere else Son House mentions that Patton used to do "Keep It Clean" with dirty verses -- maybe in Charters' book "The Bluesmen." The Quillian Bros also did a "Keep It Clean" in 1930, which I've never heard, a couple of months earlier than Patton but maybe too close for him to have lifted it from their record, even if it is the same song. |
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29 Mar 06 - 05:21 PM (#1706023) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Get a Load of This (from R Crumb) From: 12-stringer Shoulda been "a couple of months earlier than JORDAN," in re: the Quillian Bros record. |
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29 Mar 10 - 07:00 PM (#2875121) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Get a Load of This (from R Crumb) From: GUEST,Been there, done that A pink burrito was a dish served at some fast food restaurants in the early seventies. It was a regular beef and bean burrito with hot sauce or chili and two scoops of strawberry ice cream on top. Hence the, "for to keep me clean." Diarrhea was a given but it sure worked for those who were stopped up on junk food and it tasted delicious when the munchies visited. |
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30 Apr 16 - 02:24 PM (#3787975) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Get a Load of This (from R Crumb) From: GUEST,A Thin Man from Venus Armstrong told me he and Dodge were inspired by a faded 'Red's Burrito' sign hung outside an old Mom and Pop liquor store, while eating junk food they had just purchased. 'Red's Burritos' were cellophane wrapped items that were heated in a little infared oven, decades before the microwave appeared. |
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14 Sep 16 - 07:18 PM (#3810002) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Get a Load of This (from R Crumb) From: GUEST The lyrics about RC cola, a bunch of twinkies and a pink burrito come from a song sung by the Cheap Suit Serenaders. I think the title is "RC Cola," but I haven't found that. They perform it in nearly all of their annual concerts. If I can't find it in a web search, I'll look through their LPs and CDs. |
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28 Aug 18 - 01:36 AM (#3946629) Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Get a Load of This (from R Crumb) From: GUEST,GUEST Wonk The lyrics above shared by Comic Book Fan are what I was looking for and brought me here. Those lyrics were in the version played on Dr. Demento back in 1973, 1974. Interesting background on the song from 1930 tells me the version I searched for is a parody of that original. In the '70s version, as indicated, it was clearly Pink Burrito, not Big Burrito. Dunno for no ice cream though. Thanks, folks. |