Req: "Here Comes the Judge" ...who sings/sang it?
sarbo
Would like to know who sings this song. Was told that it was used on
the "Flip Wilson Show (?)". Just curious.
Earth and Sky
sarbo wrote:
>
> Would like to know who sings this song. Was told that it was used on
> the "Flip Wilson Show (?)". Just curious.
As far as I can remember, it was sung by Flip himself and it started on
Laugh In.
Er, did I say remember? Er, what I meant was what I've been *told*.
Yeah. That's it. I *couldn't* be that old! ;)
Cindra
Wayne Garvin
>Would like to know who sings this song. Was told that it was used on
>the "Flip Wilson Show (?)". Just curious.
According to Joel Whitburn in "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits - 6th
edition"...
8/68 Here Comes The Judge...Shorty Long
19/68 Here Comes The Judge...Pigmeat Markham
That's how it's listed in the index. Now normally, when he lists the same
title twice it means that they're two *different* songs. However, the notes
accompanying each song suggest that they might just be competing versions of
the *same* song by two different artists. I can't say for certain whether
they're two different songs as Whitburn suggests in the index, or if the
index listing is a mistake and they're two competing versions of the same
song. Here's the notes that accompany each song. You be "da judge". :-)
Shorty Long - "Here Comes The Judge"
- entered Billboard Top 40 the week of June 15, 1968
- in the Top 40 for 8 weeks, peaking at #8
- title inspired by a recurrent gag line on TV's "Rowan & Martin's
Laugh-In".
Pigmeat Markham - "Here Comes The Judge"
- entered the Billboard Top 40 the week of July 6, 1968
- in the Top 40 for 4 weeks, peaking at #19
- title inspired by a recurrent gag line originated by Markham on TV's
"Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In".
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Ronald E. Hontz
Wayne Garvin wrote:
>
> On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:02:09 GMT
> sa...@TAKETHISOUT.hotmail.com (sarbo) wrote:
>
> >Would like to know who sings this song. Was told that it was used on
> >the "Flip Wilson Show (?)". Just curious.
>
> According to Joel Whitburn in "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits - 6th
> edition"...
>
> 8/68 Here Comes The Judge...Shorty Long
> 19/68 Here Comes The Judge...Pigmeat Markham
Added point of information: The old (even then) vaudeville comedian,
Pigmeat Markahm, PLAYED the judge in the Laugh In skits.
David Watson
Earth and Sky (Cin...@pacbell.net) writes:
> sarbo wrote:
>> Would like to know who sings this song. Was told that it was used on
>> the "Flip Wilson Show (?)". Just curious.
> As far as I can remember, it was sung by Flip himself and it started on
> Laugh In.
> Er, did I say remember? Er, what I meant was what I've been *told*.
> Yeah. That's it. I *couldn't* be that old! ;)
I didn't hear anything about Flip doing it. It was done by Pigmeat
Markham, who did the judge sketch on Laugh-In.
--
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Loudon Briggs
"Ronald E. Hontz" <ronh...@worldnet.att.net> wrote:
>Wayne Garvin wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, 10 Jan 1998 07:02:09 GMT
>> sa...@TAKETHISOUT.hotmail.com (sarbo) wrote:
>>
>> >Would like to know who sings this song. Was told that it was used on
>> >the "Flip Wilson Show (?)". Just curious.
>>
>> According to Joel Whitburn in "The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits - 6th
>> edition"...
>>
>> 8/68 Here Comes The Judge...Shorty Long
>> 19/68 Here Comes The Judge...Pigmeat Markham
>
>Added point of information: The old (even then) vaudeville comedian,
>Pigmeat Markahm, PLAYED the judge in the Laugh In skits.
Didn't Sammy Davis pick up on this phrase and use it a lot in skits?
--
Loudon Briggs (lar...@indirect.com Phoenix, Arizona, USA)
V Debroey
I happen to have both the Pigmeat Markham and the Shorty Long versions
and I can tell you that they are two different songs.
Pigmeat Markham's on a Chess single (b/w "The Trial"), and is credited
to Alen, Astor, Markham & Harvey. It's basically Markham rapping over
a R&B beat. Shorty Long's was on Tamla Motown (credited to Brown - De
Passe - Long) and is a typical "motown" dance number - far more
top-40-oriented than Markham's. Shorty Long's version also had less
topical lyrics - Pigmeat Markham's commented on the Vietnam War. Both
of them had short comedy interludes in them.
I'll give quick & dirty transcriptions (with holes since I don't get
everything).
First Pigmeat Markham's:
(knocks) Hear yea! Hear yea! This court is now in session!
His honor Judge Pigmeat Markham presiding
Hear yea! Hear yea! The court of swing
Is just about ready to do that thing
I don't want no tears, I don't want no lies
Above all I don't want no alibis
This judge is hip and that ain't all
He'll give you time if you're big or small
Fall in line for this court is neat
Peace brother - right on, here come the judge!
(Here come the judge, everybody know that he is the judge!)
Everybody, near and far
I'm goin' to Paris, to stop this war
All those cats gotta listen to me
Because I am the judge as you can plainly see
I want a big round table when I get there
I won't sit down to one that's square
I wanna lay down the law, they better not budge
I bust some heads because I am the judge
(He is the judge! He IS the judge! Everybody know that he is the
judge!)
(knock)
- who's there?
- I's
- I's who?
- I's your next door neighbor! [Laughter]
Order! Order! Order in this courtroom! Order in this courtroom!
(female voice:) Judge your honorship high sir, did I hear you say
"order in the court"?
- Yes I said ORDER!
- Well I'll take two gallons of beer please! [More laughter]
(He is the judge! He is the judge! Everybody know that he is the
judge!)
(Next he raps about having a chat with Ho Chi Minh, but I can't
understand much of it)
I sent a cable to rollin' Mack
To let him know I'm comin' back
Sit right down with rockin' Nix
Teach them both some Pigmeat tricks
(male voice:) Uh oh your honor Pigmeat sir, don't you remember me?
- No, who are you boy?
- I am the fella that introduced you to your wife
- To my wife!?
- Yeah
- Life! You son of a gun you! [Laughter]
(Next rap is about elections: Come November 'lection time, You'll vote
your way & I'll vote mine...)
I am the judge, I am the judge, everybody know that I am the judge
(We want Pigmeat! We want Pigmeat!
We want Pigmeat! We want Pigmeat!
Everybody know that he is the jduge)
Now everybody know I AM the judge!
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Here's Shorty Long's song:
Hear yea! Hear yea! The court's in session! The court's in session now
here come the judge, here come the judge
(Here come the judge, here come the judge,
here come the judge y'all, here come the judge)
Stop beatin' that fudge,
Cause here come the judge,
Don't nobody budge,
Cause here come the judge,
Judge Shorty is presidin' today
And he don't take no stuff from nobody
No how no way
Hey boy take off that hat
Where do you think you're at
I know where you will be
If you don't heed my plea
I'm here to tell ya...
(Court's in session) Order in the court now
(Court's in session) Ain't nobody smoke now
Here come the judge, here come the judge
(Here come the judge, here come the judge,
here come the judge y'all, here come the judge)
- Order, order, what's the first case on the docket?
- Judge I got a boy here can't dance
- Can't dance!? Oooh... Ninety days. Thirty days for boogaloo, thirty
days for shingaling, and thirty more for the Afro twist. Yeah... boy
can't dance... what IS this?
(Court's in session) Everybody quiet now
(Court's in session) Here come the judge, here come the judge
- Is that the man?
- No your honor
- Does he look like the man?
- No your honor
- Well I'm sorry, you gotta go now, if you can't recognize the man,
you gotta go
- No your honor
- And guilty!
(Here come the judge, here come the judge,
here come the judge y'all, here come the judge)
(I'll stop here because I can't make out much of the rest of the
lyrics :( )
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Ronald E. Hontz
Yep--Pigmeat played the judge and Sammy Davis,Jr., in the very same
skits, was the defendant who kept gettin' whacked on the head.