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!)
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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!)
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