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An unenhanced version of this track also appears as a bonus item on my Bandcamp LP Utterly Free Curios (2021) ~ see my discography for more info.

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Drums Along The Maple Wood
Music and Lyrics: Rich La Bonté (BMI) and Shari Famous (BMI)
Copyright © 1981, 2021, 2023 Rich La Bonté.
All Rights Reserved.

Irwin is a friend of ours
And he lives in New Jersey.
Irwin is a disk jockey
At least he don't have scurvy.
When he's on the radio
Be sure to listen to him.
He won't play no disco tunes
Not even if they sue him.

Irwin loves The Residents
They're from Constantinople.
When he smokes those Blue Rosebuds
The music drives him loco.
Irwin's listeners, they don't care
They ask for Peter Frampton.
Louie, Louie. Midnight Hour.
He gives them Lionel Hampton.

Drums along the maple wood
Indians in the birch trees
Dark and cold New Jersey nights
Watch you as your feet freeze
Ancient stars are looking on
While they whistle through you
Drums along the maple wood
Magic to undo you.

Irwin plays R. Stevie Moore
John Cage and Brian Eno.
Variety from the bizarre
Enraged and sometimes lethal.
Irwin's audience don't know
They want to hear the mainstream.
Sergeant Pepper's wealthy bored
He gives them Tangerine Dream.

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from You Have 5000 Seconds 2 Turn Yourself In (Free LP 2023), released May 1, 2023
A fLAtDiSk SoftWorks Audio Entertainment

Vocals: Shari Famous and Rich La Bonté. Guest DJ: Irwin Chusid, WFMU-FM. All instruments, EMS Synthi "A" and tin drums by Rich La Bonté. Music: Rich La Bonté (BMI) Lyrics: Rich La Bonté (BMI) & Shari Famous Foos (BMI). You can still listen to Irwin on WFMU - irwin.wfmu.org/radio/

This song also appears on a 2017 Dark Entries vinyl rerelease of my LP Mayan Canals, (for which I have to date received no compensation.)

Original Moxie Records single color Xerox sleeve art (above): Max Ernst - La forét grise. 1926.

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Digitally enhanced, produced by Rich La Bonté. April 2023.

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Rich La Bonté (1946). American musician, digital artist, aka FLAtRich. 21st Century: 12 Bandcamp LPs. 20th Century: Seminal electronic Mayan Canals LP. Kim Fowley's Bad News from The Underworld. Bass & vocals Original Godspell casts NY & LA, cast & movie LPs. Mozart in Mark Rappaport's "Mozart in Love". Lead singer of the huns in Ithaca NY (1965). Get Absolutely Free stuff on his website! ... more

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