ATDTDA (17): Happy Jack La Foam (477.23)

[Henry]

The Who: Happy Jack

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http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4241 
Pete Townshend based the "Happy Jack" character on the strange and
not-too-intelligent guys who used to hang around English beaches and play
with the kids. Townshend would play on the Isle Of Man beach as a kid.
(Rather like the Jefferson Airplane's "Lather." [hm])
This was featured on The Who's second album, A Quick One. In the US, the
album title was changed to "Happy Jack" due to record company fears that the
original title was a reference to sex. 

In 1966 The Who were slotted to film a television series in much the same
vein as the Monkees series. For the pilot episode, the band filmed a clip to
go along with this song. It featured the 4 of them as robbers attempting to
rob a safe. They get distracted, however, by a cake sitting close by and
wackiness ensues as The Who smear themselves from head to foot with
frosting. Finally a cop busts in and foils their plan, chasing them out of
the room. The show never aired, but the clip can now be found in the Kids
Are Alright DVD. The clip is light years ahead of its time for what other
bands of the '60s were doing. http://tinyurl.com/2c9dvr 
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For what it's worth, there a town in Arizona named "Happy Jack." [hm]
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Happy Jack wasn't old, but he was a man.
He lived in the sand at the Isle of Man.
The kids would all sing, he would take the wrong key,
So they rode on ahead on their furry donkey.

The kids couldn't hurt Jack,
They tried, tried, tried.
They dropped things on his back,
They lied, lied, lied, lied, lied.

But they couldn't stop Jack, or the waters lapping, (lap, lap, lap, lap,
lap)
And they couldn't prevent Jack from being happy.

But they couldn't stop Jack, or the waters lapping,
And they couldn't prevent Jack from being happy.

The kids couldn't hurt Jack,
They tried, tried, tried.
They dropped things on his back
They lied, lied, lied, lied, lied.

But they couldn't stop Jack, or the waters lapping.
And they couldn't prevent Jack from being happy

http://tinyurl.com/ysaq7m 

Henry Mu
http://www.urdomain.us/kcuf.htm 

From: owner-pynchon-l at waste.org [mailto:owner-pynchon-l at waste.org] On Behalf
Of Mark Kohut
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2007 2:15 PM
To: Tim Strzechowski
Cc: pynchon -l
Subject: Re: ATDTDA (17): Happy Jack La Foam (477.23)

Maybe Lalenne, but I vote most for any "happy" "druggist", if you know what
I mean.

Tim Strzechowski <dedalus204 at comcast.net> wrote: 
"[...] willing victims of the formulations of Happy Jack La Foam, the local
pharmacist [...]" (p. 477).



Jack La Foam is possibly a parody of Jack LaLenne, the fitness and nutrition
guru:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_LaLanne

http://www.jacklalanne.com/


"Happy Jack" -- by The Who 
Happy Jack wasn't old, but he was a man.
He lived in the sand at the Isle of Man.
The kids would all sing, he would take the wrong key,
So they rode on his head in their furry donkey.

The kids couldn't hurt Jack,
They tried, tried, tried.
They dropped things on his back,
They lied, lied, lied, lied, lied.

But they couldn't stop Jack, 'or the waters lapping,
And they couldn't prevent Jack from being happy.

But they couldn't stop Jack, 'or the waters lapping,
And they couldn't prevent Jack from feeling happy.

The kids couldn't hurt Jack,
They tried, tried, tried.
They dropped things on his back
They lied, lied, lied, lied, lied.

But they couldn't stop Jack, 'or the waters lapping.
And they couldn't prevent Jack from being happy.

(I saw ya!)

http://tinyurl.com/34ymqu

http://www.songfacts.com/detail.php?id=4241

  
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