Who wrote Plastic Jesus?
Joe Bethancourt
: Shadowcat[rhw...@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu] writes:
: Does Anyone know who wrote "Plastic Jesus On My Dashboard" I am trying to
: locate a tape of it, and dont know where to start looking.
: Thanks
Ernie Marrs.
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"Do not ascribe your own motivations to others. At best,
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Barrie McCombs
: Does Anyone know who wrote "Plastic Jesus On My Dashboard" I am trying to
: locate a tape of it, and dont know where to start looking.
I have three different versions in my files. One says "version by Ernie
Marrs". Another says "Al Higgins and many New Orleans singers". The
last lists the copyright as "1984 Willow Creek Music".
Based on past experience, this means that the original author is unknown
and each of these is listing their "version". Maybe the original author
was afraid of "devine retribution"?
The song is listed in "62 Outrageous Songs", Oak Publications, 1966.
Jerry Silverman is credited with the compilation.
- Barrie
Robert H. Walsh
Does Anyone know who wrote "Plastic Jesus On My Dashboard" I am trying to
locate a tape of it, and dont know where to start looking.
Thanks
Brian Leibowitz
It was originally recorded on the album "Here They Are!"
by the Gold Coast Singers - 1962 - World Pacific Records WP-1806
Written by George Cromarty and Ed Rush (they are the Gold Coast Singers)
It is hard to find and I don't know of any collections that include
the original "Plasic Jesus" song.
If you do find it, it will either be very expensive (if the seller realizes
that the Plasic Jesus song is on it) or very cheap (since it is a little
known 60s folk duo).
Good Luck,
Brian
Alan Ballow
If you've got access to the Web, there's a site with lyrics available.
The address is http://web2.xerox.com/digitrad . Just search for plastic
jesus. I think you can also get the music played there if you've got the
right hardware/software (I don't).
If you can't get this, E-mail me and I'll get it for you. BTW,
if anybody has the lyrics to "Ave Maria", sung to the tune of Be-Bop-a-Lu-La
I'd like to have them. Thanks.
Zingaro Baro Ignacio di Bujo
>In article <1995Apr13.0...@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>,
>Robert H. Walsh <rhw...@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote:
>>Shadowcat[rhw...@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu] writes:
>>Does Anyone know who wrote "Plastic Jesus On My Dashboard" I am trying to
>>locate a tape of it, and dont know where to start looking.
>>
>
>It was originally recorded on the album "Here They Are!"
>by the Gold Coast Singers - 1962 - World Pacific Records WP-1806
>Written by George Cromarty and Ed Rush (they are the Gold Coast Singers)
>
by Jell-O Biafra and Mojo Nixon on Prairie Home Invasion (c)1994 with the
ToadLiquors. Not bad at all.
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PAUL SWARBROOK
RHW>locate a tape of it, and dont know where to start looking.
I don't know if it's the same track but Paul King Wrote 'Plastic Jesus'
It was recorded by the King Earl Boogie Band in 1972 , with a cover
version by the Levellers. The King Earl Boogie Band have just released
a new Album 'The Mill is Gone' complete with a new version of the same
track. It's available from 'A New Day Recordings' which is run by the
same person who runs the Jethro Tull Magazine 'A New Day'.
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Phil Kabza
the theme song tune from Gilligan's Island.
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Phil Kabza Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
"If the Fool would persist in his Folly, he would grow wise." Wm. Blake
j...@pink.dwp.la.ca.us
>This song was also done by the "Fugs". I think its on the same album
as "Dirty Old Man". I don't recall the name of the album offhand, but
all the "Fug" albums (older) are well worth listening to as are Ed
Sanders albums "Sanders Truckstop" and "Beer Cans on the Moon."
Ralf-Michael Thilo
: Robert H. Walsh (rhw...@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu) wrote:
: : Shadowcat[rhw...@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu] writes:
: : Does Anyone know who wrote "Plastic Jesus On My Dashboard" I am trying to
: : locate a tape of it, and dont know where to start looking.
: : Thanks
: Ernie Marrs.
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: ios...@primenet.com PO Box 35190 Locksley Plot Systems
: White Tree Productions Phoenix, AZ 85069 CyberMongol Ltd
: "Do not ascribe your own motivations to others. At best,
: it will break your heart, at worst, get you dead."
: * song lyrics at ftp.nau.edu pub/sca/ioseph *
: This is a quote from Reprints from SING OUT!, Vol. 8 introducing the in
1964 copyrighted version by Ernie Marrs:
"No one seems to know the origin of this song, although many have tried to
trace it. Broadside (NYC), from whom this version comes, reports that it
apparently originated from a commercial jingle put on the radio in Georgia
by a firm manufacturing plastic 'Jesi'."
David Harley
McCartney, on which Plastic Jesus was, curiously, credited to 'Traditional'.
I have heard it credited to Tom Lehrer, but I've never seen it on any of his
albums.
Brian Leibowitz (b...@netcom.com) wrote:
: In article <1995Apr13.0...@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu>,
: Robert H. Walsh <rhw...@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu> wrote:
: >Shadowcat[rhw...@rs6000.cmp.ilstu.edu] writes:
: >Does Anyone know who wrote "Plastic Jesus On My Dashboard" I am trying to
: >locate a tape of it, and dont know where to start looking.
: >
: It was originally recorded on the album "Here They Are!"
: by the Gold Coast Singers - 1962 - World Pacific Records WP-1806
: Written by George Cromarty and Ed Rush (they are the Gold Coast Singers)
: It is hard to find and I don't know of any collections that include
Richard John Fuss
do a cover of "Plastic Jesus". The liner notes list the following credits:
"Song from Cool Hand Luke" - Plastic Jesus. Written by George Cromarty /
Ed Rush. Published by EMI-U Catalog Inc. ASCAP.
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Jef Jaisun
The song was extremely popular with irreverent folkies in the early
Sixties. Many used to embellish it, as did I. At one point in about 1965,
my version had about 5 verses separated by sort of talking blues comedic
bits. It probably ran close to five minutes long. This is the first time
I ever heard anyone claim "ownership," but the "folk process" being what
it is, it doesn't surprise me the originators have been largely forgotten.
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Stu Shea
: The song was extremely popular with irreverent folkies in the early
: Sixties. Many used to embellish it, as did I. At one point in about 1965,
: my version had about 5 verses separated by sort of talking blues comedic
: bits. It probably ran close to five minutes long. This is the first time
: I ever heard anyone claim "ownership," but the "folk process" being what
: it is, it doesn't surprise me the originators have been largely forgotten.
I am told that the Gold Coast Singers put it on their album, but I don't
know who wrote it.
Stu
VICTORIA CROSS
Noreen Mastascusa
Home Invasion_ by Jello Biafra and Mojo Nixon.
Richard Looney
There's no lyrics on the record. When my jug band (The Tucson Truckers)
performed this ditty in the early 1970's we thought it was a folk
song with no identifiable author. We got the lyrics from a music
book I no longer have, and Cool Hand Luke's were different from those.