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don freeman

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Jun 7, 2004, 10:41:33 AM6/7/04
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"My name is Oliver Cool
And I'm the swingingest guy in school"
..........
And what's my name?
OLIVER COOL!" ( the coloured girls would sing out this line)

Does anyone remember this song? I'd really like to get a copy of it for
a cd I'm making for my high school reunion. This song became very
important to our class of '64 when a kid sang it at the school talent
show, and hearing it again would bring back a lot of very funny memories.

musicaner

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Jun 8, 2004, 5:46:00 PM6/8/04
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I MAY BE WRONG BUT i think it was ROD MCUEN
who did this NUMBER!!
i think it was called OLIVER TWIST and there was a PART 2.
but i may be wrong.


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don freeman

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Jun 8, 2004, 7:19:31 PM6/8/04
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> I MAY BE WRONG BUT i think it was ROD MCUEN
> who did this NUMBER!!
> i think it was called OLIVER TWIST and there was a PART 2.
> but i may be wrong.
>

What is this, hate spam?

Oliver Cool had nothing at all to do with Rod McKuen and Oliver Twist.

Oliver Cool is the unRod McKuen. He is the antichrist of Rod McKuen

musicaner

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Jun 8, 2004, 9:06:41 PM6/8/04
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good luck finding the song then.
OLIVER TWIST is a GREAT SONG.


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don freeman

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Jun 9, 2004, 1:04:22 AM6/9/04
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> good luck finding the song then.
> OLIVER TWIST is a GREAT SONG.
>

Yeah, it probably is, but it's just that I was brought up to hate Rod
McKuen.

PrivateCitizen_dudley

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Jun 9, 2004, 2:56:35 AM6/9/04
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don freeman <dfr...@nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message news:<x8%wc.693211$oR5.398729@pd7tw3no>...

jesus shitting christ don can you give it up on this?

i've looked all around this big old innernet & find nary a soundfile
to help.

no, i don't remember this song, son, and i remember every song worth
remembering, including the ones i forgot.

I've innerRupted my duties as ProteKtor of the Free World to glean the
following (as if the innerNet is Real):

"Oliver Cool" Roulette Records, Fall of '60, reached the top 100 in
the US. "Oliver Cool" was the nom de 45 of Larry Ellis. The notion
that he was Rod McKuen (whose records i regularly purchased for my
saintly Ma, and which I'll soon be digitising... want one???) is
supported at:

http://pcuf.fi/~tapiov/discographies/cochran_connection.htm

but what do finns know?

NOW will you fut the sHuck up & go to yr high school reunion singing
instead " where do all the hippies meet? "

Yr pal,
South Street

don freeman

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Jun 9, 2004, 9:34:06 AM6/9/04
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> "Oliver Cool" Roulette Records, Fall of '60, reached the top 100 in
> the US. "Oliver Cool" was the nom de 45 of Larry Ellis. The notion
> that he was Rod McKuen (whose records i regularly purchased for my
> saintly Ma, and which I'll soon be digitising... want one???) is
> supported at:
>
> http://pcuf.fi/~tapiov/discographies/cochran_connection.htm
>
> but what do finns know?
>
> NOW will you fut the sHuck up & go to yr high school reunion singing
> instead " where do all the hippies meet? "

Wow, great work, Private Citizen Dudley! Your scholoarship in this
matter is much appreciated.

The idea that Oliver Cool could indeed be Rod McKuen is of such earth
shaking significance that I'm going to have to re-evalutate all my
musical taste since 1960.

It makes sense that the song was from 1960 and not '64, because the guy
at my school who sang it at the talent show was delving into a flashback.

Now, if we can only figure out why the hippies were meeting at South
Street five years before they went to San Francisco.

musicaner

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Jun 9, 2004, 9:17:08 AM6/9/04
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there was AN EARIER VERSION OF ROD MCUEN
and the SONG YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT
IS PROBABLY OLIVER TWIST.


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musicaner

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Jun 9, 2004, 9:22:59 AM6/9/04
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the other NUMBER was something along
the lines of OLIVER TWIST meets the DUKE
OF OIL or somethin LIKE THAT.

"PrivateCitizen_dudley" <dud...@cloud9.net> wrote in message
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don freeman

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Jun 9, 2004, 11:49:14 AM6/9/04
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> there was AN EARIER VERSION OF ROD MCUEN
> and the SONG YOU ARE THINKING ABOUT
> IS PROBABLY OLIVER TWIST.
>

You mean, Rod McKuen had an earlier career before his lobotomy, or it
was a different guy altogether?

Oliver Twist is from Rod McKuen's 1961 Twist album, full of joking songs
like Oliver Twist meets the Duke of Oil.

Oliver Cool is not a twist song. It is a cool song. The word "twist"
does not appear in the lyrics of the song, Oliver Cool, which rhymes
with "school."

But I appreciate you pointing me in the direction of Rod McKuen's Twist
album. If I ever get a copy, I'll put it right beside Twist with Ray
Charles.

don freeman

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Jun 9, 2004, 11:50:59 AM6/9/04
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> the other NUMBER was something along
> the lines of OLIVER TWIST meets the DUKE
> OF OIL or somethin LIKE THAT.
>

Right, and the last song on the album is Seattle Twist. I wonder if Kurt
Cobain knows about that one?

musicaner

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Jun 9, 2004, 1:22:42 PM6/9/04
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"don freeman" <dfr...@nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
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yea. LET US KNOW WHEN YOU
FIND "OLIVER COOL".

>


musicaner

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Jun 9, 2004, 1:24:28 PM6/9/04
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"don freeman" <dfr...@nospam.shaw.ca> wrote in message
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COOL>
ILL PUT next to MY COPY OF "OLIVER COOL".

twinre...@gmail.com

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May 31, 2019, 10:48:35 PM5/31/19
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Don Freeman:
Just in time for your high school reunion - 15 years after your original post - I have a mint copy of the original Roulette 45 of ‘Oliver Cool’ for sale. Please message me on eBay under the seller name Twinreverb1. Will ship to the Antipodes, which is where I’m assuming you’re from!
Btw: just for your health and happiness, according to Google, it was a fellow named Tony Mortenson who sang the song - NOT Rod McCuen!!!

JD Chase

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May 31, 2019, 11:01:46 PM5/31/19
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Sadly, Don is no longer alive... ☹️😔

ian...@gmail.com

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Apr 8, 2020, 6:33:33 AM4/8/20
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I have a copy.

BobbyM

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Apr 8, 2020, 6:50:17 PM4/8/20
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You can send it to Don in care of the Pearly Gates. But he's probably already borrowed a copy from the extensive library up there. And then he added it to a comp he was working on that contains songs with the word "cool" in the title.

May "Really Real" rest in peace.

Willie

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Apr 8, 2020, 7:27:37 PM4/8/20
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> ...the extensive library up there

What a terrific thought.

Just Walkin'

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Apr 9, 2020, 7:47:21 PM4/9/20
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But only for the works of folks who went to the other place. Only way to read them. The folks upstairs can tell you themselves what they wrote! No need for books; you have an eternity to hear their recitations!
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