I celebrate my new LP find from my local record store’s 50 cent record bin: Dick Contino and his Accordion (“A high fidelity recording – play on a stereo phonograph!”)
Yes, it’s “Daddy-o” himself with his pants hiked high and a grimace-like smile pasted on his face.
I can’t find a date on it, but I’m guessing it’s somewhere in the neighborhood of 50 years old – and yet the liner notes sound as if they’re written by Tom Servo himself…
“If ever there was a perfect wedding between a musical instrument and a man, one example stands out over all the rest – Dick Contino and his accordion.”
and:
“Critics and musicians agree that Dick Contino has done more to popularize the accordion than any other master of the instrument…” Who popularized the what? LOL! Oh yes, I remember as a child hoping that one day I could have an accordion, just like Dick Contino!
“I get the meat and the cheese, but why the bun?”
“Yeah, a bun is neither meat nor cheese.”
“Word!”
There was an MST3K reference on last Sunday’s episode of Futurama. The gang went to the movies and they were in silhouette. Fry complained about the newsreel and the camera panned right and there were the silhouettes of Servo and Crow.
I assume you refer to the “Pants-up Song” (Let’s be anal about it, shall we? :D) Unfortunatly, no…and in the cover photo I confess his accordion is blocking his torso, so we can’t see just how high his pants are hiked, lol. (I’d post it for you if I had a scanner, it’s truly cheezy.)
I have to admit, I only listened to about two songs and they may have killed my love for the accordion altogether – no glorious oompah here; it was the equivilent of accordian muzak, blech!
We struck down evil with the mighty sword of “teamwork” and the hammer of “not bickering.”
