Track 11: Flip Over Read Directions / F.O.R.D.

One of our favorite songs to perform was Blue Moon. Blue Moon was a popular doo-wop song, hitting the top of the charts in 1961 by the Marcels. It is a little known fact that before their up-beat version with the "bomp-bomp-bomps" there it was a love ballad, penned by the famous Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart.

We liked to perform it so much that we decided to try different variations of the song. On the CD, there are actually four separate versions of Blue Moon. Ironically enough, the first one that you come to is not the original, but a spinoff penned by us. The tune is called "Flip Over Read Directions" for the simple reason that the acronym for that phrase is "FORD" which is the topic of the tune (Blue Ford). There was no real purpose to creating this version of the song, other than that we wanted to be goofy, and writing a love song about a car definitely qualified as goofy.

Some interesting tidbits you may not have known about F.O.R.D.:

• The introduction, usually sung with Bomps and Dips, were replaced by Cars and Honks in order to better reflect the fact that we were singing about a car.
• We debated between the actual title and a couple other options before we finally decided on "Flip Over Read Directions." Some other favorites included "Found On Roadside, Dead" and "Free Our Random Doohickies." Just kidding.
• Unfortunately, at the end of the song, the Ford gets run over by a semi truck, brilliantly voiced by Jacob Stewart.