and (apparently) the Nixon Administration. Yet a series of incredible coincidences enabled this song to have a lasting impact on music. It's not unfair to describe them as a one-hit-wonder - but the duo of Brewer & Shipley ('B&S' for short) have as an old-age pension a song that was never intended to be performed publicly. Among others writing diaries on the subject since then was my fellow Top Commenteer, Puddytat.īut when I went to the Brewer & Shipley website, I found an interesting back-story about how the song was never meant to see the light of day: and I wrote about it five years ago in this space.Īnd so what I’d like to do is (1) reprise the story (for the benefit of newer readers) as well as (2) add a new development - in which we may yet learn the answer to the $64,000 question …. Ten years ago, the You Tube world was taken aback by a video of two singers on the Lawrence Welk Show singing the 1971 hit single One Toke over the Line - seemingly oblivious to the word “toke”. Please indicate (a) why you liked the comment, and (b) your Dkos user name (to properly credit you) as well as a link to the comment itself. Send your nominations to TopComments at gmail dot com by 9:30 PM Eastern Time nightly, or by our KosMail message board. which is where you come in (especially in diaries/stories receiving little attention). But they are more meaningful if they're well-known. you come across comments daily that are perceptive, apropos and.

A look at the 10th anniversary of a YouTube video of note … the back-story behind it … and some new aspects, after the jump ….īut first: Top Comments appears nightly, as a round-up of the best comments on Daily Kos.

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