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Wednesday, May 28, 2025

Steve Martin doing the Marty Robbins classic "El Paso" from his 1980 TV special "Comedy Is Not Pretty."

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Because smiling can't become a lost art.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-28 05:07 PM | Reply

Since we are already here, having fun, a new song:

Tash Sultana - Kiss the Sky (Live at Lonely Lands Studio)

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Lyrics:

I'm destructive
Never take your eyes offa' me
Cause I'm a sinner darling
I'll see you in hell you'll see

I guess we're going down down down down down
To the depths you hide from me (ohh)
In a land where all we know is what we dream
Kiss the sky and make believe
Make believe
Make believe

I'm no angel
I guess I have things to say
But I got spirit
Even if it never goes my way
Can you feel me
When the darkness eats away (woo)
Cause I know this, oh yeah I know it
My dreams will only show your face

It's a cocaine kind of dream
Runs a fever pitch late at night in me
Falling back to earth I see the world in shades of blue
And green
And green

#2 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-28 07:24 PM | Reply

Back to Steve Martin - What I Believe

what I
[Music]
believe I believe in rainbows and puppy
dogs and fairy tales and I believe in
the
family mom dad and grandma and uncle
Todd waves his
penis

and I believe in eight of the 10
commandments and I believe in going to
church every Sunday unless there's a
game
on

I believe that
sex is one of the most
beautiful wholesome and natural
things that money can buy

and I believe it's derogatory to refer
to a woman's breasts as -----
jugs
winnebagos or golden
bozos and you should only refer to them
as
Hooters

and I
believe you should place a woman on a
pedestal high
enough so so you can look up her
[Music]
dress

I
[Music]
believe an
equality equality for everyone no matter
how stupid they are or how much better I
am than they
are

people say I'm crazy for believing
this but I
believe that robots are stealing my
luggage and I
believe that Ronald Reagan can make this
country what it once
was an Arctic region covered with
ice

and I believe that the only good
laugh is the laugh who get get from a
professional
comedian and
lastly I believe that of all the evils
on this
Earth there is nothing
worse than the music you're listening to
right now
[Music]
oh

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#3 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-28 07:45 PM | Reply

I was raised in a family that played country music records of that era quite a lot.

This particular song was one I enjoyed and it told a good story.

For those who actually played the song and might have liked it, Marty Robbins had a follow-up song about Feleena telling her story.

Feleena (from El Paso)
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#4 | Posted by BillJohnson at 2025-05-28 09:20 PM | Reply

Big Iron is another fav of mine... here's a Rap Guy reacting to it; like being in the 'hood' he says.

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about 4 min in

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-28 09:27 PM | Reply

And now for some, "Fresh Air":

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Dino Valenti - guitar, vocals
John Cipollina - guitar, vocals
Gary Duncan - guitar, vocals
Skip Olsen - bass, vocals
Michael Lewis - keyboards
Greg Elmore - drums

#6 | Posted by Corky at 2025-05-29 06:13 PM | Reply

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