Dr. Feelgood – "I'm a Hog for You" (1975)

One little piggy ate a pizza

One piggy ate potato chips

In the previous 2 or 3 lines post, I recommended that you watch “Joan Is Awful” – which is the first episode of the sixth season of the Netflix series Black Mirror.

I thought “Joan Is Awful” was so good that I immediately dialed up episode one of season one of Black Mirror, which is titled “The National Anthem.”

In that episode, a popular young British princess is kidnapped by a madman who threatens to execute her unless the country’s prime minister commits an unspeakable act.

“What’s the unspeakable act?” you ask.

Are you not listening?  I said the act was unspeakable.  Do you not know what “unspeakable” means?  

Sigh. . . . I guess I might as well tell you – you’ll just do a Google search if I don’t.

The kidnapper demands that the prime minister – a pleasant-looking middle-aged politician who has a pleasant-looking middle-aged wife – have sex with a pig on live television:

Eeeeewww!

Enough said about “The National Anthem,” which I do NOT recommend you watch.  (Most of you will watch it anyway.  But if I tell you not to, my conscience is clear.)

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Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller wrote a lot of songs for the Coasters – among them “Young Blood,” “Yakety Yak,” “Charlie Brown,” “Along Came Jones,” and “Poison Ivy” (all of which were top ten hits).  

“I’m a Hog for You” was another Lieber-Stoller song originally recorded by the Coasters, but it barely cracked the top 40 when it was released in 1959. 

Click here to listen to Dr. Feelgood’s cover of “I’m a Hog for You.”

Click here to order that record from Amazon.