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| − | Subject of the 1976 hit song "The Rubberband Man" by The Spinners. | + | Subject of the 1976 top ten hit song "The Rubberband Man" by The Spinners. |
| + | The lyrics are mostly about going to his show at a "club outside of town" and how awesome he is. They're a bit vague on specifics, but he seems to be a novelty act who plays a giant rubber band or bands. The lyrics describe a "short fat guy" whose act is to "stretch a band between his toes" and once he "got that rubber band up on his toes ... then he wriggled it up all around his nose." | ||
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| + | He also has a trick of playing rhythm and melody simultaneously: "Playin' all that music, yet keepin' time." | ||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rubberband_Man | *https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rubberband_Man | ||
| − | [[Category:Songs]][[Category:1976]] | + | [[Category:Songs]] |
| + | [[Category:1976]] | ||
Latest revision as of 16:09, 30 December 2017
Subject of the 1976 top ten hit song "The Rubberband Man" by The Spinners.
The lyrics are mostly about going to his show at a "club outside of town" and how awesome he is. They're a bit vague on specifics, but he seems to be a novelty act who plays a giant rubber band or bands. The lyrics describe a "short fat guy" whose act is to "stretch a band between his toes" and once he "got that rubber band up on his toes ... then he wriggled it up all around his nose."
He also has a trick of playing rhythm and melody simultaneously: "Playin' all that music, yet keepin' time."
