Mungo Jerry - Memoirs of a Stockbroker
Hearing this ditty penned by a then twenty-five-year-old Ray Dorset, I was reminded of these thoughts from Richard Ellman on James Joyce's The Dead:
"That Joyce at the age of twenty-five and -six should have written this story ought not to seem odd. Young writers reach their greatest eloquence in dwelling upon the horrors of middle age and what follows it."
1 comment:
have to agree, pretty precocious for a singer just-turned-25-in-1971
but the tune is very catchy; the kinda hookline u can't get outta yr hed til midnight when u accidentally heard it for breakfast.
btw stockbroker.
made me think of uk-redskin "attila the stockbroker"; he contributed to the compilation 'Oi! Oi! That’s Yer Lot!' (wikipedia.org/wiki/Oi!_Oi!_That%E2%80%99s_Yer_Lot!)
on that comp again is an alltime party classic of the anoymous commenter no. 2 - 'the belle of snodland town' by judge dread - www.youtube.com/watch?v=u52tdYmjHjo&list=PL2AAD5EAE2CB87A20
thats what i like with your blog. one gets lost so easily here.
signed: ano 2 - lost in music
again
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