She was wonderful conversationalist; an effervescent and natural raconteur, full of witty repartee, or so I surmised as a child while skating around the rink listening to Marietta, Georgia native Billy Joe Royal singing her praises. I had no idea she was a pig-spawned trollop. That's probably a good thing since I wouldn't have been able to pronounce it right anyway.
What a great voice Billy Joe had.
Posted by floridacracker at April 11, 2008 10:16 PMI never paid much attention to the lyrics...I just assumed Mary was a bad girl.
We must have been hanging around some of the same
skating rinks, Donnah...
No, no, I hadn't worked that out yet.
Great skating song. Natural points to put on the speed.
Since I love mid-late 60s bubble-gum songs, this one's been on my playlist for a long time.
You had to know Mary got around. Didn't you hear about in "Along Comes Mary"?
Posted by: James at April 12, 2008 08:09 PMBut this isn't bubblegum.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bubblegum_pop. The studio musicians of NYC's Buddah records who posed as 1910 Fruitgum Company and The Ohio Express were bubblegum. Billy Joe Royal was a big star ("Down in the Boondocks") and this song was co-written by one of the Classics IV ("Stormy," "Traces") and produced and recorded in Dothan, Alabama by Georgia and Alabama Music Hall of Famer Buddy Buie. "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy, I've Got Love In My Tummy" this isn't.
It's 60's pop, Southern-style. Billy Joe had a world-class voice.