tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6381342123888645002.post5884753181345081013..comments2024-03-24T18:11:00.136-07:00Comments on Inside Jeff Overturf's Head: More Banjo Pigs!Unca Jeffyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02292248615715408243noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6381342123888645002.post-63098908387739414812010-05-29T09:43:53.459-07:002010-05-29T09:43:53.459-07:00Thanks for the info Ivan...I didn't know about...Thanks for the info Ivan...I didn't know about the fight song thing. Sports of any kind are generally not on my radar.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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. :PUnca Jeffyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02292248615715408243noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6381342123888645002.post-37839832610359925802010-05-29T09:15:23.460-07:002010-05-29T09:15:23.460-07:00As you are no doubt aware, Rocky Top is the offici...As you are no doubt aware, <i>Rocky Top</i> 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.<br /><br />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!"<br /><br />In a related <i>Rocky Top</i> 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--<i>Rocky Top</i> 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 <i>Rocky Top</i> one more time I'm gonna do an Elvis-vs.-Robert Goulet number on that set," I shouted back.Ivan G Shreve Jrhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04067177808320053382noreply@blogger.com