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Written, produced, and narrated by Remedy Robinson

Twitter: @slowdragremedy

Email: slowdragwithremedy@gmail.com

Podcast music by https://www.fesliyanstudios.com

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Elvis Costello Wiki Resource, “Invasion Hit Parade”: http://www.elviscostello.info/wiki/index.php/Invasion_Hit_Parade

 

“Invasion Hit Parade”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Slp9rDxQU

 

Companion Blog: https://slowdragwithremedy.home.blog/2020/02/29/episode-34-invasion-hit-parade/

 

References:

Disco Tex and The Sex O Lettes “Get Dancin’”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwUQWamRNiY

Disco Tex & the Sex-O-Lettes bio: https://www.allmusic.com/artist/disco-tex-and-the-sex-o-lettes-mn0001202301/biography

 

Pet Shop Boys’ 2013 “Electricity”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tIk1qEjI1mA

 

Hit Parade definition: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hit-parade

 

Gil Scott-Heron “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qGaoXAwl9kw

 

Background information of Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised”: https://www.songfacts.com/facts/gil-scott-heron/the-revolution-will-not-be-televised

 

Butcher’s Hook Cockney Rhyming Slang: https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/butcher_s_hook

 

Who is Gil Scott-Heron?: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NH14L0IlduQ

 

Episode 5 of “Slow Drag with Remedy,” “Well Heaven Knows What Fills the Heart”: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/05-well-heaven-knows-what-fills-the-heart/id1478037117?i=1000449229176

 

 

So, until next time, Adieu, my little ballyhoo

"Invasion Hit Parade" Lyrics:

Now that you set everybody free Whatcha gonna do about me? Don't want to be treated like some poor grateful clown I'd rather go back in the sweet underground Where I can tell the time by the color of my skin And I know my neighbor 'cos he's the one, yes he's the one Who always turns me in A woman works the tunnel in the middle of the night Picking up every lost object in sight Handbags, toupees, lost legs and fingernails The black market eats up all your failures Her transistor offers no salvation or regrets No pool, no pets, no cigarettes Just non-stop Disco Tex and the Sex-o-lettes (chorus): There's no name, no name for the place Or pain we'll cause you again and again If you do not cooperate with the Invasion Hit Parade The liberation forces make movies of their own Playing their Doors records and pretending to be stoned Drowning out a broadcast that wasn't authorized Incidentally, the revolution will be televised With one head for business, another for good looks Until they started arriving with their rubber aprons and their butcher's hooks (chorus) They're hunting us down here with Liberty's light A handshaking double-talking procession of the mighty Pursued by a T.V. crew and coming after them A limousine of singing stars and their brotherhood anthem The former dictator was impeccably behaved They're mopping up all the stubborn ones who just refuse to be saved (chorus)