The way people make me do the things
I really don’t want to do
Don’t want to do
DON’T WANT TO DO!
Sanford and Son was a bad TV series. (Today it would be viewed as not only bad, but also offensive.)
But Fred Sanford was a wise man, as this meme demonstrates:
All you parents, teachers, bosses, wives, and girlfriends who need a really good New Year’s resolution for 2020 could do worse than to follow Fred Sanford’s advice.
(That would be a good New Year’s resolution for 2021 as well. And for 2022. And for . . . well, you get the picture.)
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I know you think you’re doing me a favor by getting all up in my business and giving me a lot of unsolicited advice, but you’re not. (Trust me.)
The singer of today’s featured song – an office clerk who “used to be a bright kid” but now is “just a misfit” – knows that even well-intentioned folks need to mind their own beeswax:
Although they are nice and friendly
They have got to let me live my life!
That should be as plain as the nose on your face, but there are a lot of people in my life who just don’t get it. (If you think you might be one of those people, YOU ARE!)
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Like the two Rousers songs featured in the two previous 2 or 3 lines posts, you best believe “Nice & Friendly People” is a stick of dynamite.
For the life of me, I don’t understand why the Rousers weren’t a bigger success. They were a Dutch group, so maybe it’s not that surprising that they didn’t do well in the UK or the U.S. But why didn’t the Dutch buy their records?
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If Steven Lorber wasn’t the only American DJ to appreciate the Rousers, he’s the only one I know about. He played a number of Rousers tracks on his “Mystic Eyes” show on WHFS back in 1980. Otherwise, I would have never heard of the band – and neither would have you.
Click here to listen to “Nice & Friendly People.” (That video – which was posted in May 2017, and is the only video of the song I’ve been able to find online – had attracted all of 67 views before I put a link to it in this post. )
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