dEFROG ON 45 #73: WHY MUST YOU LOOK AT ME THAT WAY

[defrog]

When you admit that you used to listen to Firefall, you might as well own up to that Robert John 45 in yr collection.

"SAD EYES...Robert John" (Watch on YouTube)

I can’t really explain this one, either – not least since I couldn’t understand half the lyrics to it. Or at least I didn’t pay that much attention to them.

So imagine my surprise when I looked up the lyrics to discover it’s about a guy dumping his mistress because his wife is coming back home.

Which was how we did it in the 1970s, children.

Turn the other way,

This is dF

 

Comments

[franklanguage]

I never knew it was about a guy dumping his mistress either; of course, I was 12 in 1974 (do the math.)

I also never knew this guy looked like Wolfman Jack, which might have changed my impression of the song, but not much.

[defrog]

I confess I had no idea what he looked like until I Googled the video. I was picturing something more like Conrad Janis.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conrad_Janis