I think it was last week I signed up for Jot. I find that I often have ideas that I don’t jot down and then I forget them so this service made sense to me. (Basically you just dial Jot on your cell phone, say whatever it is you want to record and then you get an email with the information) Today in the car, listening to 60’s on 6, I heard a very interesting song, “Here comes the Judge!” by Pigmeat Markham. The very first part sounded like Rap! I thought to myself, “Is this the first instance of Rap?” So I decided I needed to find out more about Pigmeat and this song. So I jotted (Who do you want to Jot? Myself!) his name and the song title. I said, “PIG-MEAT MARK-HAM, Here Comes the Judge!” I was certain I would receive an email saying, “PIG MEAT MARK HAM HERE COMES THE JUDGE” WRONG! This is what came in:
Sent with my voice via Jott:
Pigmeat Markham – “Here Comes The Judge.”
Do they have people listening and transcribing? How about listening, researching and then transcribing? How in the world did they ever figure this out? I am gobsmacked!
These records worked, I think, because Markham was old enough to have acquired a measure of gravitas, which he then gleefully mocked. (The single of “Here Come the Judge” dates from 1968, when Markham was in his middle sixties.)
I am so very grateful for your homepage, Donna. I learn something new and valuable ALMOST every day.
For instance, I thought that Sammy Davis, Jr. had invented that “Here Comes The Judge”
schtick on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In way back in 1968. Turns out, it was Pigmeat, years earlier:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pigmeat_Markham
TGIF.
I too thought Sammy Davis originated the catch phrase on Laugh-In. XM radio astounds and educates me!