The short version -- it's from an actual 1971 major label (RCA) album by heavy-metal/psych band The Third World. And a rock crit friend of mine actually saw them do this live at the original Capitol Theatre.
Here are the lyrics.
Was let loose upon the people
Hitler is alive and well (in you)
He was just a man, a boy, my friend
Persecution, hate and violence
What he's loved it is to listen
Do with our blood-red power
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!
On the bleak and barren morning
Back in 1889
Something lethal and appalling
Of an evil black design
Of a planet all so small
And the mention of his name
Would turn the angels' blood to gall!
Hitler is alive and well (in you)
Hitler is alive and well (in you)
Who loved his blackened toys
And in just a span of ten short years
He uniformed his boys
And his mother filled his head
And the glory that he left behind
Look at six million dead!
To that fake God-caging lines
Say the evil men shall perish
And there where we are acclaimed
Of a man who spouts his will
And the silent through majority
Are the ones that wanna kill!
Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill! Kill!
The Third World? Okay -- these guys are NOT to be confused with the long-running Jamaican reggae band of sort of the same name. That said, alas, I haven't been able to find much biographical data about them; apparently they were from NYC, had some vague connection to Vanilla Fudge, and broke up shortly after the release of the album.
The Hitler thing, though...Wow. 😎
Or as Cristina Applegate famously remarked on Married With Children -- "the mind wobbles." 😎😎
[h/t Jim Farber]
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All this needed to be complete is dancing dwarves and an 18 in swastika dropping from the ceiling.
chatgpt has some stuff - https://chatgpt.com/s/t_693acccf1d1481918a5e2d6dfa31f4fc
The drummer, Roger Mansour, had been in The Vagrants, with Leslie West.
This song was written during a brief collaboration between Mel Brooks and Charles Manson. The songwriting team later broke up over "musical differences."
Remember seeing them on either the Clay Cole or Lloyd Thaxton show.
Can we get an interview with the creators of the track? I would like to hear an explanation of what they were thinking. What they were talking about.
Also what their recording label was thinking?
Possibly the most bizarre track you have ever featured on the blog!
Captain Al
Pretty much, yeah. I'm really flummoxed over this. 😎
As the late Norm MacDonald said, "The more I learn about Hitler, the less I care for him."
Hard to believe but the keyboard player (Laufer) was in a Bubblegum band recording for Kasnetz/Katz before Third World
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