Saturday, June 23, 2012

let's write, let's sing a picker's "that's cool, that's trash"

So Ray & Dave & Patty are trying to cook up a smokin' rendition of the Street Cleaners' 1964 song, "That's Cool, That's Trash", as a theme song for the upcoming TV show. Check it out here:

 

So as you can probably tell the lyrics are basically a celebration of a "general spirit of drinking age joie de vivre". Yeah. We wanna soup up the hot rod here for our trash pickin' endeavors, and wanna ask you for your help. What would this song sound like if it went for the general spirit of neighborhood walkin' and trash pickin', and made you smile all the while? Let's mash it up, re-write it, put words that you think should be in the new version...comments below welcome!

Lyrics copied over (by hand, thanks) based on version on this site:
there's gonna be a big party at my house
(la-la-la-la-la-la la-la, that's cool)
I'm chargin' two bucks to get into my house
(la-la-la-la-la-la la-la, that's trash)
you know the food and the drinks are all for free
if you wanna pay the cook you gotta find-a me

now there ain't gonna be any kissin' on the dancin' floor
(la-la-la-la-la-la la-la, that's trash)
and there ain't gonna be any dancin' on the kissin' floor
(la-la-la-la-la-la la-la, that's cool)
i got a lot of records for you to hear
but my phonograph hasn't worked for over a year

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there'll be a lot of cool chicks who love to rock now
(la-la-la-la-la-la la-la, that's cool)
they gotta leave by nine o'clock now
(la-la-la-la-la-la la-la, that's trash)
but later on we can go for a ride
i got a new motor scooter with powerglide

3 comments:

  1. Yeah thanks to that's cool that's Patty we're working on the song it'll be cool cool not trash trash

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  2. The trash on the street just doesn't stop

    Lala Lala Lala Lala Lala law that's trash

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  3. We got a lot of cool friends cannot hit the streets together

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