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Searching for the Easter eggs
Easter is just around the corner and now the search for Easter eggs is on again. Maybe you can help me with some songs that have to do with eggs or rabbits/hares. Thank you, I am very curious.
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Man, Juergen, this is a real stumper for me! There was a Wings album called Back to the Egg, and White Rabbit was posted recently in the 1967 thread. But I have to go back to my formative years to find another example:
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Yes David, Easter eggs are always well hidden. I don’t know the Wings album “Back to the Egg”. Thanks for pointing that out. I was hoping you’d go back to Sesame Street. Thanks for the song. I have a another nice Sesame Street song here too:
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I hadn’t heard that one, Juergen. I imagine a lot of parents raised their eyebrows when they heard all those animals proudly singing about the fact that they “do it”.
According to Wikipedia, the two sides of the Back to the Egg LP were titled Sunny Side Up and Over Easy.
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Happy Easter Jurgen et all! This is a tough one.
Does “I am the egg man, they are the egg men….” in this one count?
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Hi Jung, I wish you and everyone who reads this Happy Easter too. The creativity award belongs to you. „I am the Eggman“. The Beatles could have figured that out too. 🙂
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Here is the greatest Easter bunny of them all, in fact the greatest bunny for all times..
This was my introduction to music appreciation and Franz Liszt as a young child getting up at 5AM on Saturdays to catch all the cartoons.
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Fantastic Jung. I loved Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and co. as a kid (as well as Tom & Jerry). I may have seen this Cartoon at some point, but can’t remember it. Thank you for this beautiful piece of childhood!
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“Big Butter and Egg Man” is a 1926 jazz song written by Percy Venable. Venable was a record producer at the Sunset Cafe and wrote the song for Louis Armstrong and singer May Alix (wikipedia).
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Thanks Jurgen. What a great topic for Easter. I use to love the “Bugs Bunny Road Runner Hour”, and for a cartoon they had some amazing cartoon musicals in the Bugs Bunny series with many cartoon characters singing.
In that cartoon when Bugs Bunny pulls his ears back while playing the piano I think is a salute to Franz Liszt, the great piano virtuoso with long hair, and in some painting show him pulling his long hair back as he played on the piano. I think the cartoon writers were big music fans.
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I just cleaned out a cobwebby corner of my memory and recovered this:
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Another musical cartoon rabbit that made an early impression on me:
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Thanks David, was Lucky Seven Samson an independent cartoon character with its own episodes?
Yes, the advertising of the past decades is also incredible. Here is a commercial for Swiss eggs. „The happiest hens lay the best eggs“. Hopefully the chickens know that too.
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Juergen, that cartoon is one of several dozen educational cartoon songs from a series called Schoolhouse Rock, which aired on American TV in the 1970’s. They were inserted in between the regular Saturday morning cartoons, such as Bugs Bunny, in a clever attempt to teach kids basic facts about multiplication, grammar, U.S. history, and science in a way that they would remember for the rest of their lives. Each one featured different characters and settings. I’d suggest checking them out on YouTube; some of the melodies are really catchy.
That’s an intriguing commercial you posted! The phrase at the end, “Das Schweizer Ei”, reminds me of a funny moment from my college German class. The instructor asked, “Was haben Sie zum Fruehstueck gegessen?” (What did you eat for breakfast?) He requested an answer from one particular student, who haltingly said, “Zum Fruehstueck habe ich das Ei gegessen.” The instructor responded with “Das Ei? The egg? What, the ultimate egg?” I laughed, imagining someone coming into his kitchen and saying, “You idiot! You ate THE egg! It’s irreplaceable!”
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Yeah David, the one and only egg. There is a legend that deep in the Swiss mountains, isolated from the rest of the world, in a green, lush valley lives a mighty and ancient hen. It only lays one egg every 1000 years. Shiny as the sun and hard as granite. Whoever takes the arduous journey to this valley and finds the one egg gains control over all other laying hens in the world. In glowing runes, the secret of the egg is carved into its shell for all eternity:
One Egg to rule them all, One Egg to find them
One Egg to bring them all and
in the green valley bind them
in the Land of Swiss where the Alpine horns lie
I think that’s what they were referring to in the commercial 🙂
And here is another rabbit song:
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How about scrambled eggs? Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother ends with a suite breakfast
5. “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast”
I. “Rise and Shine”
II. “Sunny Side Up”
III. “Morning Glory”
This album was released in 1970. I remember as a teen in the late seventies going through the racks at the record store and staring at this album cover wondering what this breakfast piece was about. We knew Pink Floyd for their greatest hits. Eventually I handed over $15(albums were expensive?) for it and was blown away by how good it is. It has some beautiful acoustic numbers on it.
So Alan has a nice breakfast to prepare. As with most Floyd works, earbuds are recommended. After breakfast there is a very nice instrumental piece. The whole album flows very smoothly and is great for a country ride. Please check out “Fat Old Sun” while we’re at it.
JP
Oh yeah, fun fact. Later, when Roger Waters recorded his solo album Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking, he has a segment where you hear the main character ordering room service, basically ordering Alan’s breakfast. Alan? Alan Parsons was a recording engineer on Atom Heart Mother. He also created the Alan Parsons Project.
This has a really nice guitar solo at the end.
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Hi JP, thanks. I often held the LP „Atom Heart Mother“ in my hand as a teenager (because of the unusual cover), but somehow never dared to buy it (because of the unusual cover). I couldn’t imagine that an LP with such a big cow on the cover would sound really good. But the Pink Floyd covers are usually quite idiosyncratic. (At that time I only knew “The Wall” by Pink Floyd). The album seems to be interesting and the songs you presented sound very nice. This time I’m not only going to pick it up, but also listen to it.
At this point I spontaneously think of the LP “Breakfast in America” by Supertramp. But I don’t think the album is about eggs and breakfast, or have I missed something? In the song of the same name, only kippers are served for breakfast.
Yes, Alan Parson worked as a sound engineer at Abbey Road Studios at that time. It was a very good idea for him to start his own project.
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Well, I guess there’s always this one:
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Thank you for “Peter Cottontail” David. I’ve never seen that before, but it’s very well done. I love these old stop motion animations. They have a special charm. Puppet performances were very popular with us in the 60s and 70s. The “Augsburger Puppenkiste” was broadcast on Sunday afternoon television. A small puppet theatre that was specialised in the performance of children’s books (later adult performances followed such as „The Little Prince“ and „The Three Penny Opera“). Most of these Presentations were multi-part plays. Absolutely professionally made and still cult today.
I still enjoy watching animated films today, although the productions by Pixar, DreamWorks etc. no longer have much in common with the productions from my childhood.
PS: I have chosen a little Easter performance by the „Augsburger Puppenkiste“. It is about the protagonist going on an Easter egg hunt and does not find a single egg. He catches the Easter Bunny lazing around and makes sure that he hides the eggs, only to find himself lazing around afterwards. Main message of the play: An Easter bunny has to do what an Easter bunny has to do.
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