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Sesame Street and The Dukes Of Hazzard - together at last!
This rousing lost hit by this duo from Petersburg, Virginia, is the second installment in what I call the Sesame Three - and it has an undisputed Sesame Street reference. In the verse after the first chorus, this song includes the line, "I caught a Snuffleupagus and smoked a boogaloo spliff."
Mr. Snuffleupagus always seemed sort of dopey, so he must have been smoking something. Maybe that should have been part of my Sesame Street parodies. Back when I was doing those stories, I planned on making a public document detailing it all, which was supposed to be as influential as the great libraries of the ancient world. A few years later, I planned to add to this legacy by also including a completely unrelated true story of a kid in elementary school who ruined a book about football from the school library by cutting a photo out of it to hang on his wall. He also shit on the toilet seat once.
As "They Want EFX" gets going, the song also has a reference to another popular TV series, The Dukes Of Hazzard: "So nincompoop give a hoot and stomp a troop without a strain...Like Rosco P. Coltrane."
An early Dukes episode said Rosco lost his pension and would have had to retire as sheriff "on a bad case of hemorrhoids." He probably had lots of strains.
"They Want EFX" also repeatedly uses the 7-note "Shave And A Haircut" couplet. Years before "They Want EFX" came out, a kid in 1st grade farted that melody and said it was the "Volkswagen does it again" jingle.
In the mid-1980s, I associated music with videos, but by 1992, my perception of music had again evolved. I was focusing less on videos and more on radio, and that's what this lost hits blog is all about.
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