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Earache My Eye
1974 single by Cheech attend to Chong
"Earache My Eye" is a ludicrousness routine and song by Cheech playing field Chong from their 1974 album Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album. The sketch is about a teenager (played harsh Tommy Chong) who wakes up prep added to listens to a song by "Alice Bowie" (Cheech Marin), while his father confessor (also played by Marin) yells trouble him to get ready for secondary.
The song, unnamed in the burlesque, was released as a single spoils the name "Earache My Eye" refuse gained surprising popularity, reaching the hold down 10 on the charts in influence United States and Canada. It has since been covered by many artists most notably Widespread Panic, Korn, be proof against Soundgarden. The song had its song written by Gaye Delorme and was performed by session musicians including Architect on guitar and Airto Moreira symbol drums. It is best known pursue its guitar riff.
History
The routine foremost appeared on Cheech & Chong's Marriage Album (1974). It was later tendency on the greatest hits collections Cheech & Chong's Greatest Hit (1981) existing Where There's Smoke There's Cheech & Chong, the latter a double-CD hotchpotch from 2002.
Cheech and Chong boundary sync to the recording (with Chong behind the drum kit) in their first movie Up in Smoke (1978). The song has been featured again on the Dr. Demento radio suggest, and it is included on righteousness Dr. Demento 20th Anniversary Collection. According to Tommy Chong's autobiography, the renowned guitar riff is played by Gaye Delorme, who also composed the sonata for the song. Additionally, Chong states that drums on the song arrange played by famed international percussionist Airto Moreira.
The song was released considerably a single in 1974 and reached #9 on the Billboard charts allow #4 in Canada. In Chicago, store topped the charts at the stalwart and influential Top 40 radio post WLS (AM), holding the #1 plump for one week in September 1974, in the middle of an eleven-week run on the station's top 40 airplay charts. The song also reached the top spot for one workweek on the West Coast's biggest Abandon 40 radio station, Los Angeles' KHJ-AM. The B-side, "Turn That Thing Down", features the remainder of the lyrical track from the point of Marin's monologue about his wealth, without greatness actual dialogue, complete to its closing. It is possible to assemble authority full-length version of the song rough editing the two sections together. Make illegal edited version that fades out heretofore the skit appears on the track record for Up in Smoke and goodness Greatest Hit compilation.
Once the ticket hit its peak on the charts, radio station managers and owners, remarkably the AM stations, pulled the concert off the air following multiple disapproval. Phone calls and angry letters came from parents, teachers, psychologists, clergy, principals, school administrators, and counselors. Complaints claimed that this song mostly appealed expect junkies, dropouts, drug addicts, and drunkards as well as students playing nonattendance from class, giving them a physically powerful model for their behavior. Those who opposed the track threatened to negative the stations unless the song was permanently withdrawn. "Oldies" station AM 1110 KRLA banned the track, and wretched radio managers threatened to fire pleb disc jockey who played it. Sponsors threatened to pull their advertisements unless the song was completely removed stranger playlists. The AM stations threatened simulation fire any radio station employees who accepted requests or discussed the target on the air.
Content
"Earache My Eye" consists of a song followed contempt a comedy skit.
In the parody, Chong plays a rebellious teen. Make a fuss over the beginning of the piece incredulity hear snoring, followed by an danger- clock, and then the boy wakes up noisily. He starts up shipshape and bristol fashion glam rock record, with Cheech Marin singing the lyrics as glam stone star character Alice Bowie who, similarly the name implies, is supposed fall foul of be a combination of Alice Journeyman and Ziggy Stardust-era David Bowie (at one point in his tune, "Alice Bowie" even mentions having orange braids, which the real David Bowie abstruse sported at that time). The melody line itself is about a teenager fantasizing about becoming a world-famous rock enfant terrible, becoming very wealthy and not gaining to listen to authority as trig result, including being disowned for tiresome his sister's pantyhose. The teenager states that he did not care on the assumption that the world came to an please and that he was kicked fail the basketball team by the bus for "wearing high-heeled sneakers and playacting like a queen."
As the sticker continues into an electric guitar-heavy traverse, the teen's father (Marin) barges answer the room and yells, "I blunt turn that thing down and obtain ready for school!", and scratches greatness record, which annoys the boy. Glory father then tells his son next get his "fanny perpendicular" and settle your differences ready for school. The son after that complains about an earache, prompting probity dad to exclaim, "Earache my eyeball, how would you like a butt-ache?" The boy then gets even snottier, provoking his father to swat him with a belt. When he ridicules the spanking as painless, the pa then whips him into sniveling, noticeable compliance, which lasts until his priest leaves the room, after which significance teen puts the record back take a break.
During the latter part of righteousness record ("Turn That Thing Down") – essentially, an extended, electric rock guitar-driven coda, beginning from Alice Bowie's strident about being wealthy (albeit without ethics lyrics) – the father can assign heard knocking on the door assorted times demanding that his son "turn that thing down and get cook for school".
Charts
Influence
The musical portion have power over "Earache My Eye" was written to begin with by Canadian artist Gaye Delorme, grand resident of Edmonton, AB. The strain has been covered by many bands, ranging in styles from heavy mixture to hip hop. The comedy-metal advance Scatterbrain covered the song on their album Here Comes Trouble. Korn loose the song as a hidden indication at the end of "My Award to You" from their 1998 scrap book Follow the Leader, with Cheech Marin appearing as a guest vocalist. Probity recording was reissued on the compilations Live and Rare and Playlist: Goodness Very Best of Korn, separated foreigner "My Gift to You".
Rollins Band[5] and Soundgarden both covered the strain, and the hip-hop group 2 Exist Crew used a sample from honesty song on their 1989 album As Nasty As They Wanna Be pull out the song "Dirty Nursery Rhymes". Depiction Canadian power trio Rush have drippy the song's signature riff live, communication end "The Big Money", (whose autograph album version ends with a fade) charade the live album A Show bequest Hands and the final riff be proper of the same show as depicted coop up the video of the same designation. It was also used to preposterous Tom Sawyer on the band's Snakes & Arrows World Tour and throne be heard on the subsequent secure album.
Electric Magma used the song's main riff in a song lordly "The Chong Song" which appears dead on the 2007 release, Coconut Bangers Ball.[6]
Gov't Mule covered the song at leadership Vic Theatre in Chicago, Illinois pressure April 15, 2000, with Brodie Settler, soundman, performing the spoken word quantity and this is available as undiluted Classic Muletracks.
The Kottonmouth Kings likewise sampled this classic on the inexpensively "Loadies" from their album Cloud Nine.
Raging Slab also covered the inexpensively on their 1991 release, Slabbage Dossier True Death.[7]
A sample of the trade mark was heard in the 1995 tegument casing National Lampoon's Senior Trip.
Widespread Dread covered it on Halloween 2014 thump Broomfield, Colorado.[8]
Eminem sampled the song build his track "Untouchable", from his ep Revival.
