The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #5085   Message #1024747
Posted By: GUEST,Dewey sobosb@webtv.net
25-Sep-03 - 12:46 PM
Thread Name: Origin: Plastic Jesus
Subject: RE: Who Wrote & Who Made Popular: Plastic Jesus?
Ed And George used to hawk the record from the trunk of their car. Ed gave me a copy. That was in Monterey California. It as a 33 1/3 LP. There were only two verses of it on the record. I am not sure if Ed and George wrote it or not. But I do think that their version that caused the uproar. The two verses as I remember were, "I don't care if it rains or freezes, slong as I got my plasctic Jesus, glued to the dashboard of by car, You can buy him pink n pleasant, glows in the dark, he's phosforescent, Take him with you when you travel far". The last verse on the cut was "You kin buy a sweet madonna dressed in rhinestones, sittin on a pedestal of abalone shell, goin 90 I'm not wary, cause I got my virgin Mary, guarantyin I won't go to hell". They hawked plastic members of the holy family in between verson. As I recall it was recorded in front of a live audience. I had my copy of the Lp until my place burned down in the early seventies. I will be 75 on Sunday. Ed and George must be around 65 by now if they are still with us. I would like to hear from both of them.