Them good ol' Osborne Bros and the real "Rocky Top"And Sonny Osborne teaches all us little piggies how!
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As you are no doubt aware, Rocky Top is the official "fight" song of the University of Tennessee...and because my sister Debbie's husband is a Vandy alum, it is much despised in their household.
Now -- I don't have a dog in that fight. I just love the song and the Osborne Brothers. One day, when my niece was about four years old, I was playing the Osborne's version on my computer and singing it to her. My sister hears this from the other room and shrieks: "Don't let my husband catch you teaching my daughter that!"
In a related Rocky Top story, when my best friend from high school got married her mother threw her a surprise reception and the band she had hired had to skip out on the gig. The last-minute replacement knew only two songs--Rocky Top and I forget the other. So she's showing me a videotape of the reception and it gets to the point where I mute the sound on the TV. "But you're missing all the funny comments," she wailed. "If I hear those clowns mangle Rocky Top one more time I'm gonna do an Elvis-vs.-Robert Goulet number on that set," I shouted back.
Thanks for the info Ivan...I didn't know about the fight song thing. Sports of any kind are generally not on my radar.
I do however relate to the TV being threatened for hearing someone mangling the song...many's a time I've been offended by some hack mangling a piece of great music.
And back to story number two...good for you for covertly teaching your niece that great songs transcend all mookish football trivia! Here's to guiding the children. :P
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