Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] The only rap about intel chips that I know of...

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Jonathan King wrote:

> On 12/6/06, Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> > By the way, the first time I saw Weird Al was on a late-night TV show, 
> > I guess it was Tom Snyder's Tomorrow Show.  He was known as a street 
> > performer, they said.  He played the accordion and sang "Another one's 
> > down, another one's down, another one rides the bus" (parody of 
> > "another one bites the dust" by Queen).  That was probably 1980 or 
> > 1981.  I thought it was pretty funny and I used to tell people about 
> > it.
>
> Amazingly enough, that's now back on YouTube as well; search for 
> Yankovic and probably "bus" and you should turn it up. I actually 
> thought this one was too weird for my taste, but they do call him "Weird 
> Al"...

I really thought they said he was a street performer.  I probably just 
invented that because he acts like one and so does his accomplice.


> About Tom Snyder, I remember when they canned his show and replaced it 
> with a show by a virtual unknown. The scent of death was in the air. 
> Saturday Night Live featured this in a skit of theirs on the Bizzaro 
> Broadcasting Corporation. Expectations were low, but then the new show 
> did okay. Dave Letterman turned out to be way more popular than most 
> people expected.

Ha!  I totally forgot about that.  So Snyder used to be after Carson and 
they gave Letterman that slot?

Mike

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