On the regular music thread, our friend
@TomSea offered us up Brian Hyland's pleasant cover of the Impressions'
classic "Gypsy Woman." Seized by an ungodly impulse, I couldn't resist countering by mentioning Hyland was the
same kid who---when he was sixteen, in 1959, and therefore still old enough to know better (as were the guys
who wrote the thing for him)---dropped
this on us:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPg4SxMvxpgNow, I have two memories of that song:
1) My young aunt Lois singing it to me to amuse me when I was five, which wasn't very amusing---not because she
didn't have a pretty voice, either. (She did. She was also very pretty herself, not to mention smarter than the proverbial
whip: she ended up joining IBM after her sons were in high school and, along with my uncle Ira, worked for IBM
until they retired in the Aughts.)
2) Billy Wilder (and I mentioned this in the other thread) used the song in his Cold War satire,
One, Two, Three.
It was the song he had the East German secret police play to torture a suspected spy.
In the immortal words of Bob Newhart, it got me to thinking. Why the hell don't we pipe "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie
Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" into the cells of captured ISIS terrorists? I guarantee it. They'll surrender, spill, and convert
rather than have to sit through more than one playing of
that. And for the poor saps who have to play it for
them, well, it could be worse . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XIMSbKU2oZM&t=1193s. . . for the poor saps, that is. (Please, let's remember that for
our guys there's still such a thing as the Eighth
Amendment!)
Soooooooooooo, if the ISIS bastards need more than a mere itsy bitsy teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini to yank
them inside out before some re-assembly is required . . . well, that's where you all come in.
Introducing . . . The Official TBR Terrorist Torture Music Survey. In B Fearless.What would
you pipe into the bastards' cells to crack them? All entries welcome. All jokes welcome. Provisions
for hollowed-out headphones to give our guys so
they don't have to hear it would
certainly be welcome, I'm
sure. Sourpusses can provide their suggestions (thank you, WFB!) in stamped, self-addressed envelopes.
Let the Geneva Convention violations begin!!
