John Waters "It's In The Book / Proud New Father"
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It's In The Book", first released in time for Christmas, 2002, is John Waters' attempt to portray, in his words, Johnny Standley's "persnickety, droll, intellectually superior comic monologue," a part song, part exhortation on the subject of Little Bo-Peep in the manner of a revivalist preacher. The original version of "It's In the Book" was a huge, surprise hit upon it's release in 1952, rising to #1 on the Billboard chart and selling over 1-million copies. It's follow-up, the nursery rhyme gone-wrong, comedy routine, "Proud New Father" (released the following year in 1953), would not fare as well- perhaps due to it's gory details. Waters recounts, "It may be the first sick joke I heard as a child." As in the original versions, the two Standley homages include gratuitous laugh tracks. Produced by Grammy-winner, Ian Brennan (Tinariwen, The Good Ones [Rwanda], poet Raymond Antrobus, Zomba Prison Project), Brennan states, "That recordings of dead people prompt living people to laugh is one of the more surreal aspects of recorded medium. That often identical canned laughter tracks have been used redundantly on countless albums and sitcoms for decades is all the eerier." Waters jokes that he chose to press the new single on gold vinyl so that he can at last be able to claim, "I've made a 'Gold Record'.
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