My wife heard Monkey to Man on WMVY (accessible via http://www.wmvy.com) today. I've searched their site and the web but didn't find any links to it. She described it as sounding something you'd hear in an Austin Powers movie. I'm very intrigued.
andyguitar
Monkey to Man
I've not heard the official song yet, but that's amazing that they're playing tracks already! It's a rocking song, I don't know about Austin Powers 'cause it isn't a novelty song, but it is a clever one. When I heard it live, I thought it was a bash against Bush (like Bush is the vicious creature that jumped from monkey to man...I've seen websites that liken Bush to a monkey too, so I guess my brain did it's own leap!). I also misheard his intro once and thought he said it's a song about the Alamo King (Texas...Bush, see what I mean?), but he said "Animal Kingdom" 
Then again, our Elvis is pretty clever, so who knows?
Jill
Then again, our Elvis is pretty clever, so who knows? Jill
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I posted this in another thread here -
Heres some info. on the song that Monkey To Man is 'a late-breaking sequel to' -
http://www.bigrobonline.com/recommends19.htm
Dave Bartholomew
"The Monkey"
Dave Bartholomew is best known as Fats Domino's mentor, producer, arranger, and songwriting partner on the vast majority of his classic late 50's-early 60's hits. However, Dave did get off at least one classic all his own with this swampy philippic on the evils of humankind. Dressed up in the evolution debate and played off like a funky fable, it speaks volumes with a few short verses, and it's musically spare, too, relying on one and only one twangy, brittle proto-soul groove to get the point across. (It's the kind of groove Creedence Clearwater Revival would base their entire career on.) And there's a hell of a point: this original spoken blues has more relevancy than any dozen self-labeled protest songs, without tying itself to any religion or philosophy whatsoever. Unless misanthropy is a religion.
Lyric -
Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they are said to be.
One said to the other,"Listen here, you two.
I just heard a rumor that CAN'T be true."
"That man descended from our noble race!
The very idea is a big disgrace.
No monkey ever cheated his wife,
Starved her baby, and ruined her life."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
"You'll never see a mother monk
Leave her child with others to bunk.
Passing him off from one to the other,
Till the poor child barely knows his own mother."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
"And here's another thing you'll never see -
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree.
Letting good coconuts go to waste
While forbidding all others to come and taste.
Why, if I built a fence around a tree,
Starvation would force you to steal from me."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
"And here's one more thing a monkey won't do -
Go out at night and get on a stew.
Or use a gun, or club, or knife
To take another monkey's life.
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum.
But brothers, from us HE DID NOT COME."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
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http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 74-0106241
The Big Beat of Dave Bartholomew
Dave Bartholomew
Audio CD (March 12, 2002)
Number of Discs:1
Label: Capitol
ASIN: B000062T8Y
Catalogue Number: 5375992
Heres some info. on the song that Monkey To Man is 'a late-breaking sequel to' -
http://www.bigrobonline.com/recommends19.htm
Dave Bartholomew
"The Monkey"
Dave Bartholomew is best known as Fats Domino's mentor, producer, arranger, and songwriting partner on the vast majority of his classic late 50's-early 60's hits. However, Dave did get off at least one classic all his own with this swampy philippic on the evils of humankind. Dressed up in the evolution debate and played off like a funky fable, it speaks volumes with a few short verses, and it's musically spare, too, relying on one and only one twangy, brittle proto-soul groove to get the point across. (It's the kind of groove Creedence Clearwater Revival would base their entire career on.) And there's a hell of a point: this original spoken blues has more relevancy than any dozen self-labeled protest songs, without tying itself to any religion or philosophy whatsoever. Unless misanthropy is a religion.
Lyric -
Three monkeys sat in a coconut tree
Discussing things as they are said to be.
One said to the other,"Listen here, you two.
I just heard a rumor that CAN'T be true."
"That man descended from our noble race!
The very idea is a big disgrace.
No monkey ever cheated his wife,
Starved her baby, and ruined her life."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
"You'll never see a mother monk
Leave her child with others to bunk.
Passing him off from one to the other,
Till the poor child barely knows his own mother."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
"And here's another thing you'll never see -
A monkey build a fence around a coconut tree.
Letting good coconuts go to waste
While forbidding all others to come and taste.
Why, if I built a fence around a tree,
Starvation would force you to steal from me."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
"And here's one more thing a monkey won't do -
Go out at night and get on a stew.
Or use a gun, or club, or knife
To take another monkey's life.
Yes, man descended, the worthless bum.
But brothers, from us HE DID NOT COME."
Yeah.
The monkey speaks his mind!
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 74-0106241
The Big Beat of Dave Bartholomew
Dave Bartholomew
Audio CD (March 12, 2002)
Number of Discs:1
Label: Capitol
ASIN: B000062T8Y
Catalogue Number: 5375992
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Here's the lyrics to Monkey to man, or as they were in February...
From Monkey to Man
A long time ago a wild point of view,
was broadcast by Mr Bartholomew,
now the world is full of sorrow and pain,
it's time for us to speak up again.
You're slack and sorry, such an arrogant brute,
the only purpose you serve is to bring us our food,
sat here staring at your pomp and pout,
outside the bars they're used to keeping to you out.
Taking everything you wanted,
broke it up, and plundered it and hunted,
and before you say that you went into the credit,
it's been headed this way since the world began,
since a vicious creature made the jump from monkey to man.
Every time man struggles and fails,
he makes up some kind of fairytales,
after all of the misery that he has caused,
he denies he descended from the dinosaurs.
Taking everything that he wanted,
he broke it up, and plundered it and hunted,
long before you say that he went into the credit,
it's been headed this way since the world began,
since a vicious creature made the jump from monkey to man.
Monkey to man!
Big and useless as man has become,
with his crying statues and his flying bomb,
goes round acting like the chosen one,
'scuse me if we treat him like our idiot cousin.
Taking everything that he wanted,
he broke it up, and plundered it and hunted,
long before you say that he went into the credit,
it's been headed this way since the world began,
when a vicious creature made the jump from monkey to man.
Monkey to man.
Monkey to man.
Monkey to man.
(repeat)
From Monkey to Man
A long time ago a wild point of view,
was broadcast by Mr Bartholomew,
now the world is full of sorrow and pain,
it's time for us to speak up again.
You're slack and sorry, such an arrogant brute,
the only purpose you serve is to bring us our food,
sat here staring at your pomp and pout,
outside the bars they're used to keeping to you out.
Taking everything you wanted,
broke it up, and plundered it and hunted,
and before you say that you went into the credit,
it's been headed this way since the world began,
since a vicious creature made the jump from monkey to man.
Every time man struggles and fails,
he makes up some kind of fairytales,
after all of the misery that he has caused,
he denies he descended from the dinosaurs.
Taking everything that he wanted,
he broke it up, and plundered it and hunted,
long before you say that he went into the credit,
it's been headed this way since the world began,
since a vicious creature made the jump from monkey to man.
Monkey to man!
Big and useless as man has become,
with his crying statues and his flying bomb,
goes round acting like the chosen one,
'scuse me if we treat him like our idiot cousin.
Taking everything that he wanted,
he broke it up, and plundered it and hunted,
long before you say that he went into the credit,
it's been headed this way since the world began,
when a vicious creature made the jump from monkey to man.
Monkey to man.
Monkey to man.
Monkey to man.
(repeat)
Re: Monkey to Man
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Big-Beat--Dave- ... 943&sr=1-1
The Big Beat-The Dave Bartholomew Songbook
Dave Bartholomew
March 28, 2011
The Big Beat-The Dave Bartholomew Songbook
Dave Bartholomew
March 28, 2011