Sunday, April 27, 2008

Track 14: Comet / Duke of Earl

This song was actually fairly straight, with not much going on in the way of goofiness. It was one of the last songs that we learned during the semester. We didn't have any printed music, so we put it together by ear, which was a fun experience.

Near the end, Peter repeated his spoken line, "Nothing can stop me now." It was recorded in cathedral setting and then spliced into the song. Jacob Broderick, for no apparent reason, ended the song with "Pocahontas" in the upper line.

As for the code name, "Comet." It refers to an old commercial for the cleaner "Comet" that my mom occasionally sang. It goes something like this, to the tune of Colonel Bogey March: "Comet, it makes your mouth turn green! Comet, it smells like gasoline! Comet, it makes you vomit! So get your Comet and vomit today!" In the spirit of blogs, here's a link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comet_(song))

What does that have to do with the Duke of Earl, you may ask? Well, one day we started writing a different lyric to the tune, entitled "Puke and Hurl." It didn't go anywhere, but the idea of losing one's lunch over this song led to the Comet song, and hence the name Comet as a veiled reference to puking, or "yawning in Technicolor."

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