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...hurts." He got bit, you see, on the subway, by a seeing-eye dog. So Saturday night this Salem-smoking refugee from West Virginia comes in and says, "That line's been rollin' and tumblin' around my head all day. We gotta write a song about gittin' bit by a seeing-eye dog." His almost-heaven West Virginia accent laid me in the aisles, where I rolled over Tim Carlson, self-described "gangly, goofy, blushing, cowlicky, smartass, shynose, sloppy lunch eater" who kneed me in the funny bone, and from then on it was bubbly giggles, side-eyed glances, uproar...
Initially reggae was earthy, sexually explicit and abounding in joie de vivre: "Work with me, Annie, let's get it while the gittin' is good," a typical reggae began. While reggae retains a core of sensuality and haunting folk wisdom ("I can see clearly now that the rain must fall..."), the theme of today's reggae is emphatically one of social protest. It is often menacing, as in the Wailers' new single, Slave Driver...
...next one shows Wild Bill Hickok being shot in the back of the head while he plays poker. A boy's father is explaining to him, "There's Wild Bill Hickok gittin' it in the back of the head...
...sketched Romney, Rockefeller and Nixon as windup dolls running off haphazardly in all directions-and in the case of Romney, backward. Last week it was Lyndon Johnson's turn in the guise of a booted, bulbous-nosed Texas longhorn that horns in on a picture-taking session. "You gittin' my good side, oF buddy?" he inquires of the photographer. "Which side's that?" retorts an onlooker...
...SUMMER LONG (Capitol). "My buddies and me are gittin' real well known," sing the Beach Boys, who sailed over a million with / Get Around. The Beach Boys feature the good California life, just surfing and riding their "groovy little Hondas." But the end of all this Fun, Fun, Fun may be in sight. "We know they're right when they say we're not ready," sings one treble boyish voice. "We'll run away and get married anyhow...