{"id":43,"date":"2020-10-01T08:35:11","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T12:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/?p=43"},"modified":"2020-10-14T10:45:30","modified_gmt":"2020-10-14T14:45:30","slug":"be-zorch-daddy-o-go-ape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thebookbeat.com\/backroom\/2020\/10\/01\/be-zorch-daddy-o-go-ape\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Zorch, Daddy-O, GO APE!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Nervous Norvus was a genius songwriter of the mid-50s with a string of novelty hits that began with “Transfusion” in 1956. The song was created from a 2″ demo tape San Franciscan trucker Jimmy Drake sent to his local wild-man DJ: Red Blanchard<\/strong>. Red added tire squeals and car crash sound effects -and created a top ten hit in two hours. “Transfusion”<\/strong> had immediate popularity selling 500,000 copies in a week, but was also a fast victim of radio censorship. As a novelty song it’s one of the greatest, but perhaps all the gore, blood and road madness was too much at the time.<\/p>\n

Toolin’ down the highway doin’ 79
\nI’m a twin-pipe papa and I’m feelin’ fine
\nHey man, dig that — was that a red stop sign?<\/strong>[squeeeeeeeal … kee-RASH!]Transfusion, transfusion
\nI’m just a solid mess of contusions
\nNever never never gonna speed again.
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\nSlip the blood to me, Bud.<\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n