Mods, feel feel to move this to Cafe or summat if needed.
When I was younger, so much younger than today, in the mid-late-1980s, I listened to “The Half-Hour Comedy Hour” on a station out of Rhode Island; it came on before WPLR’s broadcast of Doctor Demento, so I got a super-strong comedy fix on Sunday Nights. I also recorded a lot of stuff on cassette tape, which was the style at the time.
I used to have a recording of “Little Dead Surfer Girl,” a parody song in the style of the Beach Boys. For some reason today, it began playing in my head, and I can hear my recorded-off-the-radio version clear as day:
Rhonda was a surfer girl, golden hair down to her buns
Of all the surfer girls in the world, I knew she was the one
Rhonda headed out to sea
Tried to sail her board to Waikiki
Guess you had to say Rhonda was kind of du-umb
(…)
And when the tide comes in
So does Rhonda
With the [*blurry memories + fuzzy recording] marks all over her bod (…)
So I looked that up this evening, and the closest thing I could find was this:
And some of the lyrics are:
And when the tide flows in, so does Rhonda.
With the whale bites in her body,
But the tune and the rest of it don’t match up one. Single. Bit.
Does anyone know what I’m hearing in my head? I thought maybe it was from the National Lampoon radio show, but my friend Goggle produces bupkis.