Mr. Spooner with the Beatles (posted in the winter of 1996)

- posted at: http://www.webcom.com/jrice/Canteen/Read/ -

thanks to:

- "Realt" (mrlucas18@aol.com) -
- "Young Mr. Crowley" (bonaire@aone.com) -
- "Darian" (me :P) -

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Realt writes:

Did you know that Mike Berry was a real life pop star?  He was in a band called "Mike
Berry and the Outlaws" in the 60's.  He recalls in the AYBS? book that he thought his
band was well-known and the Beatles weren't but it was just the opposite.

Young Mr. Crowley replies:

I don't know who these Beatles are that you mention, but I remember very fondly the
'60s and the fabulous music of Mike Berry and the Outlaws that swept America and
provided the soundtrack of our young lives. I remember MB and the O's first appearance
on the Sullivan show, where the girls all screamed and threw rissoles, and their first
movie, "Magical Mystery Fitting Room." Call me nostalgic, but I still get a lump in my
throat when I put on the "Capt. Peacock's Blue Star Cinema Band" album and hear such
great tunes as "Fixing a Cake-hole" "Ticket to Ride Up with Wear," "Shirley in the Sky
with Cotton-Wool," and "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Klein," not to mention "Got to
Get You Into My Y-Fronts," "Inside Leg #9" and "Everybody's Got Something to Hide
Except Me and My Pussy", "A Hard Grace Night," "Baby, You're a 44 Regular," and
"Goldberg Slumbers."

Darian replies:

Hm, the only ones I can come up with that are marginally funny are: "I'm Free! as a
Bird"; "Norwegian Pussy"; "I'm Happy Just to Take Your Inside Leg"; "Tell Me Y-
Fronts"; "She Came in Through the Canteen Window"; "Why Don't We Do It in the Fitting
Room"; and Happiness is a Warm Y-Front"; "You've Got to Hide Your Gin and Tonics
Away"; "In My Y-Front"; "You're Going to Lose That Sale"; and "Eleanor's Pussy."

someone else replies:

How about those classics "You've Got to Hide Your Trousers Away," "Everybody's Trying
to Be My Salesperson," "I'm Looking Through Your Brassiere," "And Your Pussy Can
Sing," "A Day on the Floor," "With a Little Help from My Junior," "All You Need Is a
Sale," "I am the Floorwalker," "The Ballad of Steven and Betty," "In My Department,"
and "You Never Give Me Your Knickers." Nobody can replace Mike Berry and the Outlaws.

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