Jeepers Creepers!
Where'd you get those peepers?
Jeepers Creepers!
Where'd get those eyes?
Golly gee!
When you turn those heaters on
woe is me!
Got to put my cheaters on
Jeepers Creepers!
Where'd you get those peepers?
Oh those weepers!
How they hypnotize!
Where'd ya get....... those..... iiiiiiiiiiiiis!!!!??
Jeepers Creepers. 1938. Lyrics by Johnny Mercer. Music by Harry Warren.
posted by jm at 3:14 PM
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Ummmhummm, it was Louie Armstrong at our house...
Jeepers, creepers....whered ya get them peepers
Jeepers, creepers...whered ya get those eyes
Gosh oh, git up....howd they get so lit up
Gosh oh, gee oh....howd they get that size
My father would sing this to me- brings back fond memories of being a wee-ling. And we'd dance, me standing on his toes....he was a really good dancer.
Omigosh, tseka!
I love Louis' version. I was just about to add that it's time to dance but I didn't have to say a thing.
How absolutely wonderful, dancing on your father's toes.
I sang it once to my cousin Richard's cat who was prancing wildly on my lap. She loved it.
Ja, you know it's funny, since my father loved black musicians, mostly jazz and blues, i grew up with a child-mind categorization of music...there was real music, like jazz and blues, and calypso, then there was the Salish, drumming and chanting, pretty deep and magical, then there was the Swedish stuff, not real music; polka. Stan Borsen and his beagles entertained we kids on cartoons in the afternoon and at functions with his accordion. Sadly wanting we Swedes when it comes to music it seems. Still there was some fun with wash tubs and crosscut and timber saws.
Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Once again with these characters!
Stan Borsen and his beagles entertained we kids on cartoons in the afternoon and at functions with his accordion.
LOL!!!!!
Calypso is way up on the top of my A list. Most Caribbean music. my favorite. Those rhythms came up and influenced the New Orleans jazz making that exhuberant danceable sound.
The accordian is popular in many many divergent cultures. It's a happy sound. Bouyant. Interesting. Based on wind, yet a keyboard. Mimics breathing. India has the harmonium which is similar.
there was some fun with wash tubs and crosscut and timber saws.
LOL! The washtub is another crosscultural phenomenon. The best music out of the delta was jug band music built around the washtub bass. Nice resonance to those things when they're not full of hog guts.
Well Stan Boreson wasn't so bad, his beagles were named tallulah and No-Mo shun the humor was that dry swede stuff,which is actually pretty clever if you pay attention, and he did play "Spanky and our Gang". Life could have been worse if we had TV at our house like->->-> Lawrence Welk. OMG to have to visit the grandmonther at the Lawrence Welk hour...........ick.
Hog guts in the wash tub? must be ah southern...?
No-Mo shun
HA HA HA HA!!!
Lawrence Welk is a HUGE issue.
Yeah. Mississippi Delta. They actually used gut buckets as the instrument. Same thing but you don't wash the lingerie in the same place as hog innards.
Life could have been worse if we had TV at our house like->->-> Lawrence Welk. OMG to have to visit the grandmonther at the Lawrence Welk hour...........ick.
Same here . . . we didn't have TV at home but the grandparents did & the Lawrence Welk Hour was a "must watch". Plus all the sports - football, baseball, basketball, wrestling . . . boring! No wonder I would take books & go off in the corner & read.
Neith! What were your wiggling antennae picking up?
Neith! What were your wiggling antennae picking up?
That you are deeply involved in giving birth to something marvelous & tremendously creative . . . . and it's taking a large share of your time & attention! Right now tJupiter is conjuncting my nMercury so I'm extra intuitive - an amplification of the normal pattern of switching back & forth between intuitive thinking & logical. For me, the intuitive style is the assimilation of the conscious & unconsciously observed, then having a conclusion leap into my fore-mind!
and, oh yah, the smoke rising the Denver area . . . . :-)
You're right.
You're right.
hmmmmmm - I, for one, am awaiting the unveiling! This will be most interesting, of that I'm sure . . .
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