CAB CITY COMBO: Cabbie Road

Cab City Combo

Cabbie Road

© 2004 Cab City Combo

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More NYC Novelty Rock that asks the question: If a train leaving Chicago at 40 mph and a train leaving S.F. at 50 mph were to crash, where would the survivors be buried?

tracks

1 Ghostriders Up The Nose
2 The S.U.V. Song
3 My Cabbie is a Madman
4 Days of the Weak
5 Bungalow Bill Ad Nauseam
6 The Italian Song
7 Metal Jr.
8 Banned by the Man
9 L&O vs. C.S.I.
10 Sam Barleycorn
11 Peter and the Wolf and the Burrito
12 ?????

notes

Just when you thought PORK SIDE OF THE MOON was a fluke, Rubin Brothers Audio is proud to bring you CABBIE ROAD!

A dozen new hits from the Kings of New York Novelty Rock, CAB CITY COMBO. This urban comedy ensemble has been featured on novelty radio shows and internet shows alike, making numerous stops to the Dr. Demento Show, and winning the first ever WACKY award.

This CD includes Country Western, Metal, Pop, Raga, Classic Rock and Surf style material. It discusses headcolds, songs that you can't get out of your head, unnecessary violence, Sicilian Record Companies, and SUV's.

It parodies songs as diverse as Ghostriders in the Sky, and Peter and the Wolf.

Not only that, novelty music fans will want to get a copy just to play SPOT THE NOVELTY MUSICIAN using our album cover. For instance, which artist on the album front is the grandfather of Dirty Dancing's Jennifer Grey? WOW!! Can it get more fun than this?

Please?

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  • Worth the Money!!
    author: Bruce Babcock

    As good as Wierd Al and Bob Rivers, if not better. CD Baby service was quick and reliable. Would not hesitate to order through them again. I especially liked their shipping notification eMails.

  • Cabbie Road is Parodies'r'Us
    author: Tom Weel; Beatles Unlimited

    The second CD, after Pork Side Of The Moon, released by novelty band Cab City Combo, in the tradition of Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band and Frank Zappa, who are both featured on the Sgt Pepper parody sleeve of this disc, as are Screamin’ Jay Hawkins, Rolf Harris, Weird Al Yankovic, Michael Nesmith, Dr. Demento, a.o. They don’t just discuss (by way of singing and talking) music and music business, the songs are performed in various musical styles as well. Besides original songs, parodies are included of Ghostriders In The Sky, John Barleycorn Must Die (incorporating the Peter Gunn Theme) and the Beatles’ Bungalow Bill, retitled as Bungalow Bill Ad Nauseam. Of the latter’s original lyrics, only the title and the line ‘what did you kill’ are remained intact. For the rest, the new lyrics, written by vocalist Paul Rubin, tell us why they can’t get the melody out of their head. Banned By The Man says they’ve ‘violated Beatles copyright’ and states that a novelty band’s parody doesn’t devaluate the original song, but usually makes you go and buy that original one as well. In the new version of Peter And The Wolf, the (new) characters are presented and played as musical styles (punk, surf, reggae, death metal, the ‘sort-of-psychedelic-Hendrix-influenced-acid-rock-fusion’ and the burrito played as the Champs’ Tequila tune). To complete it all nicely for us, Beatles fans, the backsleeve shows a parody of the Abbey Road cover, with a chalk drawing of someone who’s been run over by a car.

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