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You remember Lenny & Squiggy, right? Oh, you don't? Well, you see, in the late 60s there was this band called The Cowsills, a musical family kind of like the Partridge Family. In fact they were supposed to BE the Partridge Family, but that's another story. Anyway in the early 70s they did the theme for this TV show called "Love American Style", which was an anthology-type romantic comedy show. One of the segments was about a family in Milwaukee in the 1950s called "Love And The Happy Days". It was successful and got spun off into its own show called "Happy Days", which gave pop culture "The Fonz". Two characters from "Happy Days" were Laverne DeFazio and Shirley Feeney, and they got spun off into THEIR own self-titled show, two single gals getting through life in the late 50s Milwaukee. Their comedy-relief neighbors were Lenny and Squiggy, two goofball greasers with big dreams and the combined IQ of a small rodent. And Lenny and Squiggy were so beloved that eventually they released their own comedy album.
The shocking truth is that this is actually a pretty funny record. Michael McKean (Lenny) would later go on to rock and roll fame with "Spinal Tap" and you can hear some of the gears turning as they rework 50s style rock into vehicles for comedy. In between the songs Lenny and Squiggy engage in some stage banter and generally goof off. They would appear on FERNWOOD 2NITE - the greatest TV show ever - in character and perfom one of the songs you hear here. So give it a listen, won't you?
In other news... the construction noise is DRIVING ME CRAZY! Especially because it's almost noon and everybody's rushing around, pouring concrete, backing up making that beep beep beep warning, banging stuff, grinding stuff, motors growling, they're in a hurry because at noon the lunch truck shows up and informs the work crew by beeping his horn repeatedly. After noon the noise slacks off considerably, but from 7am until noon, LOOK OUT. Yeah, they're taking a perfectly good parking lot and cramming retail into it. Lord knows where the other under-construction five skyrises full of young upwardly mobile BMW SUV driving, latte-swilling d-bags are going to park. This neighborhood is going to have to have its own subway station if it gets any more dense. BUILD YOUR DAMN BUILDING ALREADY and then move on to another part of the city please. Don't make me buy a farm out in the country just for the peace and quiet. I don't want to farm.
The shocking truth is that this is actually a pretty funny record. Michael McKean (Lenny) would later go on to rock and roll fame with "Spinal Tap" and you can hear some of the gears turning as they rework 50s style rock into vehicles for comedy. In between the songs Lenny and Squiggy engage in some stage banter and generally goof off. They would appear on FERNWOOD 2NITE - the greatest TV show ever - in character and perfom one of the songs you hear here. So give it a listen, won't you?
In other news... the construction noise is DRIVING ME CRAZY! Especially because it's almost noon and everybody's rushing around, pouring concrete, backing up making that beep beep beep warning, banging stuff, grinding stuff, motors growling, they're in a hurry because at noon the lunch truck shows up and informs the work crew by beeping his horn repeatedly. After noon the noise slacks off considerably, but from 7am until noon, LOOK OUT. Yeah, they're taking a perfectly good parking lot and cramming retail into it. Lord knows where the other under-construction five skyrises full of young upwardly mobile BMW SUV driving, latte-swilling d-bags are going to park. This neighborhood is going to have to have its own subway station if it gets any more dense. BUILD YOUR DAMN BUILDING ALREADY and then move on to another part of the city please. Don't make me buy a farm out in the country just for the peace and quiet. I don't want to farm.
