I don't know if you know this, but that's Mickey Dolenz introducing him because that clip is from an episode of The Monkees. It's at the very end of, I think, the one with the UFO and Rip Taylor (???) I always liked that episode as a kid, but I think they may have cut out the Buckley part in syndication. I remember seeing it for the first time when Nick at Nite starting showing the series (late eighties I guess?). Probably better I didn't hear it as a kid, I was always haunted by sad songs. "Now my foolish boat is leaning" always struck me for some reason, as did "puzzled as the oyster."
I read at some blogger's examination of the song (it's at http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2005/08/song_to_the_sir.html ) that the oyster line was later changed to "puzzled as a newborn child." Someone calls the original dubious, but I prefer it to the change, maybe because I'm pretty dubious myself. (DOOBIE us! Haw haw!)
This comment has been removed by the author.
ReplyDeleteI don't know if you know this, but that's Mickey Dolenz introducing him because that clip is from an episode of The Monkees. It's at the very end of, I think, the one with the UFO and Rip Taylor (???) I always liked that episode as a kid, but I think they may have cut out the Buckley part in syndication. I remember seeing it for the first time when Nick at Nite starting showing the series (late eighties I guess?). Probably better I didn't hear it as a kid, I was always haunted by sad songs. "Now my foolish boat is leaning" always struck me for some reason, as did "puzzled as the oyster."
ReplyDeleteI read at some blogger's examination of the song (it's at http://tenser.typepad.com/tenser_said_the_tensor/2005/08/song_to_the_sir.html )
that the oyster line was later changed to "puzzled as a newborn child." Someone calls the original dubious, but I prefer it to the change, maybe because I'm pretty dubious myself. (DOOBIE us! Haw haw!)