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KF Raizor Lyr Add: parodies sung by Homer and Jethro (182* d) RE: Homer and Jethro 10 Jan 10


It should be noted that the song that's on YouTube mis-identified as "I'm Missing My Wife's Cooking" is actually titled "A Screwball's Love Song." It was written by Boudleaux Bryant.

Eddie Hill was a country music disc jockey and songwriter (song STEALER according to Charlie Louvin: he claimed 1/3 credit for the first Louvin Brothers song recorded, "Alabama," although he had nothing to do with it other than promoting it to a publisher. Ira and Charlie went along with it because "we thought that's how things were done back then."). He was elected to the Disc Jockey Hall of Fame its inaugural year (1975) (note: this is NOT the Country Music Hall of Fame, the one that H&J are in, Eddie Hill is not in "the big hall").

I'm writing a book on Homer & Jethro and one of the appendices will be a list of people mentioned in their songs, since a number of them (e.g., Van Cliburn or Roger Williams [both referenced in "Please Help Me I'm Falling"]) have long faded from public knowledge. I've found a number of inside jokes in their songs as well, and they will be listed. My favorite is the "for our 19th anniversary" remark in "Red Roses for a Blue Lady" (which was recorded in 1965, the year of Jethro's 19th wedding anniversary!).


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