Thursday, April 28, 2011

Hey, where are my royalty checks?

Yo, Ralph, baby, where have you been sending my royalty checks for doing this video?



Music nerd trivia corner: The song is an American standard, composed by Richard Rodgers (later of Rodgers & Hammerstein) & Lorenz Hart, recorded by Ben Taylor for the ad campaign, and has been [separately] recorded by his parents James Taylor and Carly Simon in the 1980s and 1990s, respectively.

3 comments:

todd said...

3 things: Were you the guitar player or the carriage driver? How gay are you for watching RL video commercials? How old and nerdy are you for knowing the answer to that trivia question?

an Donalbane said...

1) Neither - I was the dude in the Cameo.

2) Um, okay, if looking at a hot blonde chick in a sun dress in a video makes me gay - then sign me up for some!

3) Well, let's see - the song was written in 1935, so that would be...wait, I'm inoculated on this one because I already self-disclosed when I made the post.

Home on the Range said...

Camero. good taste then.