Song ID help (re The Delegates' "Convention '72")

Those who remember this break-in novelty 45 will recall that the musical snippets consisted mostly of songs popular in the spring and summer of 1972. Most are instantly familiar, but there's one I've never been able to identify.

It's an uptempo country number with a man singing:

Well, you wake up in the morning and your hands are shakin'
And your nerves are all uptight

It sounds a lot like Jerry Reed, but I don't think he charted during that period with a song that sounded like that. The song isn't on my Essential Jerry Reed CD, anyway.

Anyone have any idea what tune this is?

 

Great post! Heres the 'lyrics' for it. For the next post lets distill 'who said what.'

Good morning ladies and gentlemen
This is Walter Clondite
From Convention Hall, Miami Beach
Bringing you the first get-together convention
Of Republicans and Democrats alike
We have Henry Kissinger and Vice-president Agnew
Standing by on the right side of the Convention Hall

Come in David Stinkley

Thank you, Walter

Ah, Mr Kissinger, amid this historic moment
With all the pomp and grandeur
Of the political system of America all around you
Tell us Sir, what are your innermost thoughts
At the very moment

Gotta find a woman
Gotta find a woman
Gotta find a woman
Gotta find a woman

Vice-president Agnew
What are your thoughts, Sir

Right on, right on

Mr Agnew, when you heard the rumour
That President Nixon
Might not select you as his running mate again
What did you say to him

You never should have promised to me
Give it here, don't hold back, now
Give it here, don't say nothin'
Just give it here, come on

Ah, Mr Agnew if you were in Senator McGovern's place
Who would you have chosen as a running mate

Bertha

Bertha, who

Bertha Butt

Who, she, Sir

One of the Butt Sisters

Do you agree, Mr Kissinger

Gotta find a woman
Gotta find a woman
Gotta find a woman
Gotta find a woman

Thank you, Henry Kissinger and Vice-president Agnew
Back to you, Walter

Thank you, David
Now, Sidney Bruntley is over on the left side
He has Sargent Shriver with him

Sargent Shriver, what did you say to Senator McGovern
When he finally asked you to be his running mate

You just call on me brother
When you need a hand

How did you finalize your agreement with Senator McGovern

Sealed with a kiss

Oh, oh, shades of excitement

One final question, Sir
What kind of offer did Senator McGovern make you

He made me an offer I couldn't refuse
Sidney, forgive me but our roving reporter
Larry Reasoning has Martha Mitchell on the microphone

Take it away, Larry Reasoning

Ah, Mrs Mitchell, would you like to talk to our listeners

I'll sock it to you, Daddy

Now that your husband has resigned from politics
How do you feel, Ma'am

I'm the happiest girl in the whole U.S.A.

Mrs Mitchell your complaint
Was that your husband
Didn't have any time to spend with you
Now that you are alone, Ma'am
What do you talk about

Aaaaaaaaaaaa......

Well, I can understand that, Mrs Mitchell
Now back to you, Walter

Sidney Bruntley is on the left side of the floor
With Mr and Mrs Eagleton and Senator McGovern
Take it away, Sidney

Thank you, Walter

Senator McGovern, how did you feel
When you and Senator Eagleton first seperated, Sir

Alone again, naturally

Oh, yes, what did you do then

Called the doctor over

And what did your physician advise

Put the lime in the coconut and call me in the morning

Everyone was turning you down, Sir
If Sergeant Shriver has also refused
Who whould you have turned to then

A Horse with no name

Oh, I love horses

Now, Senator Eagleton
How does one feel in the morning
When his world has been shattered, Sir

Weeeeell, you wake up in the morning
And your hands are shaking
And your nerves are all up tight

Well then, Senator, why didn't you resign immediately

Am I wrong for trying to hold on
To the best thing I ever had

Yes, and what are your feelings now
Towards the people who apposed you

They smile in your face
All the time they want to take your place
The back stabbers

One final question to you, Senator Eagleton

What did you say to the newspaper columnist
When you met him face to face

Lier, lier, lier

Senator McGovern, what are your feelings on that, Sir

How can a loser ever win

Mrs, Eagleton, would you like to answer him

Who do you think you are, Mr Big Stuff

Who do you think will vote for Senator McGovern
Now that your husband is out

Gypsies, tramps and thieves

Ma'am, do you think you could have done more
For your husband during those trying times

I know it's not my fault
I did my best

Thank you very much

Now back to you, Walter

There's a camotion on the left side of the floor
We've got Senator Kennedy standing with Jane Ronda

Take it away David Stinkly

Ah, Senator Kennedy
People are talking about your political future
Because of your good looks, your smile
And the sound of your voice

Why

Aaaaaaaah

And the magnificent

If you decide to run for President in '76
Who will be your campaign manager

The candy man

Ah, Miss Ronda, Miss Ronda
Just one question, please
What do you think of President Nixon

I don't know how to love him

Ah, thank you Miss Ronda

Ah, ah, Mr Kissinger
What are you doing all the way over here
On this side of the hall

Gotta find a woman
Gotta find a woman
Gotta find a woman
Gotta find a woman
Ah, that it for here, Walter

Thank you, David
Thank you, Sidney
Thank you, Larry
Thank you, America

We now return you to your local stations

 

Gotta find a woman - Troglodyte / Jimmy Castor Bunch
Right on, right on - same
You never should have promised to me - I Gotcha / Joe Tex
Bertha Butt One of the Butt Sisters - Troglodyte again
You just call on me brother When you need a hand - Lean on Me / Bill Withers
Sealed with a kiss - Sealed With A Kiss / Bobby Vinton
Oh, oh, shades of excitement - ?
He made me an offer I couldn't refuse - From The Godfather (movie)
I'll sock it to you, Daddy - Troglodyte / Jimmy Castor Bunch
I'm the happiest girl in the whole U.S.A. - Happiest Girl in the Whole USA / Donna Fargo
Aaaaaaaaaaaa...... - ?
Alone again, naturally - Alone Again, Naturally / Gilbert O’Sullivan
Called the doctor over , Put the lime in the coconut and call me in the morning - Coconut / Harry Nillson
A Horse with no name - Horse w/No Name / America
Weeeeell, you wake up in the morning , And your hands are shaking , And your nerves are all up tight - I thought this was Jerry Reed
Am I wrong for trying to hold on to the best thing I ever had - If Loving You is Wrong (I Don’t Wanna Be Right) / Luther Ingram
They smile in your face, all the time they want to take your place, the back stabbers - Back Stabbers / O’Jays
Liar.... - Liar / Three Dog Night
How can a loser ever win - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart / Bee Gees
Who do you think you are, Mr Big Stuff - Mr. Big Stuff / Jean Knight
Gypsies, tramps and thieves / Cher
I know it's not my fault, I did my best - Last Night I Didn't Get To Sleep At All / 5th Dimension
Aaaaaaaah And the magnificent - I think this should be "I am the Magnificent" - Double Barrel / Dave and Ansel Collins
The candy man - Candy Man / Sammy Davis Jr.
I don't know how to love him - From 'Jesus Christ Superstar' (Yvonne Elliman I believe singing)

 

That was the narrator.

That was from "Jungle Fever" by the Chakachas. Dreadful record.

 

You know, Delegation '72 is the only one I have never heard of all the break-in records of the 70s. I have all the Dickie Goodman one's too.

 

Dreadful opinion.

Anyway, nobody knows who did that Jerry Reed-esque song?

 

It's one of the few break-ins that's actually funny -- far more clever than Goodman's bellowing.

 

I just played Convention '72. It sure does sound like a clip from a Jerry Reed song, but I don't know which one it is.

 

It's possible that the version of "I Don't Know How To Love Him" could be Helen Reddy, as I believe hers was the actual hit version. And yes, Yvonne Elliman did sing it on the original Jesus Christ Superstar album.

Did Bobby Vinton have a hit version of "Sealed With A Kiss" during that time frame? The original (and surely the best) version was by Brian Hyland.

 

I believe the Jerry Reed song is "Another Puff", a song about trying to quit smoking.

 

I always assumed it was a Jerry Reed song, but after a few google searches of these lyrics all pointed to "Convention '72", I'm stumped. The Delegates was really Bob DeCarlo. I just sent him an e-mail asking what the song was. I'll let you know if I get a reply.

 

I agree.

 

Yes he did.

 

I just played this track again. They definitely used Yvonne's version of "I Don't Know How To Love Him." I'm pretty sure that the version of "Sealed With a Kiss" they used is Bobby Vinton's.

In case anyone is interested, "Convention '72" has appeared on only one cd I know of, a Time-Life/Rhino Special Products compilation from 1996 called "The Dr. Demento Collection - The Early '70s." There were also discs for the mid '70s and late '70s.

 

No, that isn't it -- "Another Puff" is a slow, acoustic "talking blues"-type song. The song on "Convention '72" has a full band and is at a much faster pace.

 

You've saved me from having to listen to that record again. It was played way too much in 1972.

 

That was my thought, too...but the line in question isn't in the lyrics, though it certainly seems like it could be.

I'm really beginning to think the song in question can't be by Jerry Reed. Checking both the Billboard Hot 100 and the Country Top 40 charts for 1972 and the year before, there's no song that charted by him that fits the bill, and it seems odd that the break-in guys would use a song that had no chart action at all.

 

Okay, I posted this on another board a while back and just got an answer:

I was in a thrift store looking through the 45s -- and one jumped right into my hand. It was "Alabama Wild Man," the '72 issue, complete with pic sleeve. I bought it for 25 cents. Jerry Reed sings real fast, so it was a lot of lyrics! But the elusive words were not in there. Then I flipped the record over and played the other side. And there they were right in the first line. "Well, you wake up in the morning and your hands are shakin' and your nerves are all uptight." So that part of Convention '72 (I played that one again to make sure) is definitely from the Jerry Reed song, "Take It Easy (In Your Mind)," the flip of "Alabama Wild Man," RCA 74-0738 (mono radio promo copy).

 

Great detective work...mystery finally solved!

How bizarre that they would have used a B-side in a drop-in record...unless at that early stage they were promoting this one as the A-side and then later had a change of heart.

 

Nice job, 8tracks -- this has been bugging me for 35 years.

 

IIRC, Jerry had a couple of other fast tempo songs in the early 70s. When You're Hot, You're Hot and Amos Moses come to mind. Maybe the song charted on the country charts instead of the Billboard Hot 100. Could also be they just wanted something that sounded familiar. Jerry Reed signing a fast song is most certainly that... no matter what it is. I know it worked for me! LOL I didn't even THINK about the fact that I really didn't know that I didn't know what that song was until just recently, which brought me to this post. =) Ditto on the Great work 8Tracks!!