The musical group “The Gear Daddies” claim to fame is the Zamboni Song.
July 31st, 2009
“The Gear Daddies”, who broke up officially in 1992 lay claim to the song and it is often played at ice rinks while the rink is being resurfaced.
As a musical get started moment, the lyrics are:
Well I went down to my local arena.
I asked to see the manager man.
He came from his office and said, “Son can I help you?”
I looked at him and said, “Yes you can.”
‘Cause I wanna drive the zamboni.
I wanna drive the zamboni.
(Yes I do.)
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We were sitting around the other day having a discussion. Some music was playing on the box, some old time 50’s and 60’s stuff. I made a comment like, “You know, that was real music. Great tunes, nice melodies, fun rhymns… not like all this rap junk that’s being spit out by every jerk who can’t hold a tune…”
(NOTE: Yes folks, I am going to PI$$ OFF the rappers in the world. And you know why? Because I am right.)
Well, that started the conversation in a direction that I didn’t want it to go… something about my parents probably saying the same thing about my rock and roll. It means that I am getting old and I’m saying the same thing my parents said.
WRONG! And I’ll prove it… by comparing lyrics… you’ll just have to hum the musical tune in your head.
RAP SONG:
“So get up out my face, you doo-doo-head dummy.”
- Arab, Yahhh by Soulja Boy Tell Em
(Note: you get the tune sorted out on this one???
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50’s SONG:
When the clock strikes two, three and four,
If the band slows down we’ll yell for more,
We’re gonna rock around the clock tonight,
We’re gonna rock, rock, rock, ’til broad daylight.
We’re gonna rock, gonna rock, around the clock tonight.
- Bill Haley and the Comets, Rock around the clock
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RAP SONG:
“They know I got that broccoli, so I keep that glock on me.”
- Young Jeezy, Put On
(Note: He’s either selling vegetables or…)
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60’s SONG:
I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine.
Oh I heard it through the grapevine,
Oh and I’m just about to lose my mind.
Honey, honey yeah.
- Marvin Gaye, Heard it through the Grapevine
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RAP SONG:
“Make your chest look just like some pizza.”
- Pharrell, Already Platinum by Slim Thug
(Note: Ummmm… He delivers for Pizza Man?)
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70’s SONG:
Daniel is travelling tonight on a plane
I can see the red tailed eyes heading for Spain
Oh and I can see Daniel waving goodbye
God it looks like Daniel, must be the clouds in my eyes
- Elton John, Daniel
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RAP SONG:
“I love the cutie pies, never the doody pies.”
- Guru of Gangstarr, Discipline
(Note: Must be a real young kid… no grown-up would say this.)
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80’s SONG:
Love on the rocks
Ain’t no surprise
Pour me a drink
And I’ll tell you some lies
Got nothin’ to lose
So you just sing the blues all the time
- Neil Diamond, Love on the rocks
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I’m sorry folks, but if you had an impartial panel judging on the above songs and lyrics, the 50’s 60’s 70’s and 80’s would win BY A LANDSLIDE! During those years we wern’t talking about putting a bullet in someone because they stole your dog (I think a dog is a “dog” in rap, isn’t it?). We didn’t use make up words to express a feeling like love, things or current events. Killing our mother for making you go to school was never expressed in any kind of musical number that I can remember.
So don’t tell me that rap is music. It isn’t music and I swear to GOD that the next time I pull up to a stop light and the jerk next to me is playing that rap crap at a volume close to the sound of a Saturn 5 rocket taking off, I’m gonna show him the volume switch…
WITH MY SHOTGUN LOCATING THE DASH MOUNTED CONTROL!
It’s not music and it sure as hell does not need to be played so loud that people three cars over wonder why thier engine sounds as if the pistons are trying to swap holes. Yeah, it may have a musical background, but the lyrics… Real music stirs the soul, fires the imagination, brings back memories.
It should never be painful to listen to. Well, unless you’re at an ice hockey game and the lyrics of the Gear Daddies waift off the rafters of the arena.
“Since I was young it’s been my dream
to drive that there zamboni machine.
I’d get that ice just as slick as could be,
and all the kids would look up to me.”
Yeah, we had GREAT lyrics back in our day. In fact, does this bring back any good memories?
“Ooo-ee-ooo-ah-ah, ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang”
and there were also THESE memorable lyrics…
“Do-wah-diddy-diddy-dum-diddy-do”
And who can forget this golden oldie,…
“papa-oom-mau-mau, papa-oom-mau-mau”
Oh, wait… how about…
“yummy, yiummy, yummy, I got love in my tummy”
Who needs gangsta rap when you can have what we had.
BTW, if you recognize any of this dribble, YOU ARE OLD!!!!
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Comment by Brat — July 31, 2009 @ 5:55 pm
Ohhhh….Uncle Mark I’m going to have to back the Mrs. on this one!! I don’t want to harsh your mellow but my friend artists have been singing about drugs, violence, gangs and gov’t coverup for years. Lyrics don’t seem to be so hidden anymore but I’m reminded of songs such as brown-eyed girl by van Morrison ( a song about shooting up) Daniel by elton John ( about a disabled soldier used by the military for PR purposes) Hotel california (yes popular opinion states its about gangs) or even Ms. wholesome Reba McIntire who had a music video (you are young enough to know what that is right!??) pulled off the air in the late 80’s or perhaps it was the early 90’s because she lured her lying cheating husband onto a boat then blew it up! Hell even Mr Johnny Cash sings about “killing a man just to watch him die” when he comes off his “cocaine blues”. This leads me to believe that what bothers you most is the aggressive nature of the rythym (tune, beat…whatever you call it) or perhaps its just the lack of respect these youngsters have for their fellow man. After all who are they forcing us to listen to that which we find undesirable….or just flat out loud!! Yes my friend we are old!! A bit of friendly advice buddy, BE CAREFUL declaring war on these youngsters……they FAR out number us!! cricket
Comment by SandM — August 3, 2009 @ 6:10 pm
Let’s face it a lot of music is crap no matter when it was produced. “When one hears it, what can one say but Soliari?” A good portion of what’s produced today under the heading of Hip Hop isn’t really music in the technical sense. I find it a result of a self-centered, narcissist, increasingly sociopathic general populace especially young people who’s parents, if they even know who they are, failed to provide any sense of security, family, well-being, meaning, confidence, or spiritual underpinning in their formidable years or any time after that. Their “music” is simply further evidence that society and culture in particular continues to move back towards the animal kingdom. Who roars the loudest, who has the brightest feathers, who caught the largest zebra? “Look at me, look at me, have a reaction, I’m important!” My parents had trouble grasping the Beatles in the mid-60s when we kids couldn’t get enough of them. Two huges differences are quality and substance that leads to appeciation and longevity. Today you hear Beatle music on easy listening stations and orchestrated cover versions for background ambience. I doubt, however, any of us will live long enough to hear a Montovani version of “Cop Killer” or “Pregnant Pussy” playing in an elevator some day. The bottom line is that the world is not a better place because of vulgar, hate-filled, menacing lyrics no matter who promotes them. But then, there aren’t enough people interested in the world getting better for anyone but the self-promoters and to the detriment of others. This is simply another signpost that the world and society are CTD.
Comment by Tallyho — August 4, 2009 @ 4:43 pm