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ADDED: The album cover above is "We''re Only in It for the Money," one of my favorite records, which is full of great songs including one that I think is just as appropriate for election eve as that one Andrew Sullivan saw fit to quote today. It goes like this:
There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love
There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above
Who cares if hair is long or short
Or sprayed or partly grayed...
We know that hair ain''t where it''s at
(There will come a time when you won''t
Even be ashamed if you are fat!)
Wah wah-wah wah
There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free...
To sing & dance & love (dance and love)
There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil...
That we can rise above (rise above)
Who cares if you''re so poor you can''t afford
To buy a pair of mod a go-go stretch-elastic pants...
There will come a time when you can even
Take your clothes off when you dance
Labels: album covers, Andrew Sullivan, dance, election emotion, fashion, fat, music, naked, The Mothers of Invention
Jimmy Carl Black (born James Inkanish, Jr.) was a drummer, vocalist, and the self-anointed Indian of the group of Frank Zappas Mothers of Invention. He was diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2008, and he died on November 1, 2008. He is survived by his wife, Monika, whom he married in 1995 following the death of his second wife; three sons and three daughters. A benefit was held on November 9, 2008 at the Bridgehouse II in London.
Born in El Paso, Texas, he was of Cheyenne heritage. His trademark line was Hi Boys and Girls, Im Jimmy Carl Black, and Im the Indian of the group. He has been credited on some Mothers albums as playing drums, vocals, and poverty. He appeared in the 1971 movie 200 Motels and sang the song Lonesome Cowboy Burt. He worked as a guest vocalist with The Muffin Men, a Frank Zappa tribute band based in Liverpool, England, and with Jon Larsen, on the surrealistic Strange News From Mars project, featuring several other Zappa alumni, such as Tommy Mars, Bruce Fowler, and Arthur Barrow. At Steely Dans 2001 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction Walter Becker asked the assembled if they remembered who the original Mothers of Invention drummer was. Becker has unsuccessfully lobbied the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for Blacks inclusion as a founding member of the Mothers of Invention. An autobiographical audio production by Jimmy Carl Black was recorded in 2007, called The Jimmy Carl Black Story.