If you're not familiar with him, I should note here that Freberg was kind of a snob hipster jazz guy, and as you can probably tell from the above, he genuinely looked down on rock-and-roll -- in fact, IMHO the record's drollest gag is the singer's upset when the piano solo goes a little too upscale.
That said, this tickled me to death as a kid, and I wouldn't be surprised if Elvis himself thought it was funny despite its mean-spiritedness.
I should add that I originally had it on Stan's 1957 sort of Greatest Hits record A Child's Garden of Freberg...
...which is one of the essential comedy albums of its day, and worth it for the parody of Dragnet alone.
To this day, I can't hear the word "knave" without cracking up.
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Amusing, but no Copper Clapper Caper
https://youtu.be/CRfuTTd09vo?si=pwl01DCm8yBX2ElF
Twinkling knaves and twangling jacks are ubiquitous these days!
"Echo by Mommoth Cave" - HA!
You noticed. 😎
St. George is the one that had me laughing!
Captain Al
He won the first Grammy for Spoken Word @ '58. and to think I was sneaking my parents records to listen to the spoken words of Red Foxx and Mom's Mabley 😉
Freberg wrote a memoir that is an interesting read. After his career as a musical satirist cooled down, he actually had a successful career in advertising.
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