Jimmy Carter
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This is our first original release. It's called Jimmy Carter and as you might expect it's about... well... Jimmy Carter, the former US president. We didn't set out to write a song about him particularly, it's just that someone came out with the line "Jimmy Carter was a peanut farmer", and it had to be put into song. After a quick trawl of his Wikipedia page we were turning up all sorts of gems. Such as Jimmy Carter is the cousin of Motown Records suprimo Berry Gordy, he's also won a Nobel Peace prize and even a Grammy award. Mad huh?
All those nudgets of trivia found their way into the lyrics. It was originally just the main riff but then other sections were written to make it a bit more interesting as a full song. It's hard to know what to describe this as, it's almost country blues, but somehow not. There's a bit of harmonica thrown in there so watch out for that too. You can't beat the old gob iron.
This is licensed under CC BY-SA because it's our own original work. You can download it, share it with friends, give out CDs and generally help us spread this music as far as possible. We need your help to make this work.
Enjoy!
Jimmy Carter by 20lb Sounds is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
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I'm really proud of this
I'm really proud of this song. Hope you like it too folks :)
20lb for life! :)
Dan
I do like this track.
I do like this track. :)
Keep up the good work.
Amy
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Thanks :)
Thanks :)
20lb for life! :)
Dan
This track made me smile when
This track made me smile when I first heard it.
Great music, can't wait to hear what else 20lb comes out with.
Thanks mate, there'll be more
Thanks mate, there'll be more new tunes very soon, stick around!
20lb for life! :)
Dan
Good song Dan, liking it.
Good song Dan, liking it.
This record is all kinds
This record is all kinds of genius
The Sheet
lodger @ Wally Road studios
Cheers dude :)
20lb for life! :)
Dan
Hehe! The first time you
Hehe! The first time you mentioned this to me I though you said 'Peanut Smuggler', which obviously is a different thing entirely! Although it was in the Cavern with loud music! What was the 'When her son became a Geordie' about? Was he given freedom of the city or something? Great tune though! :0)
What this all about then?
Hey thanks for setting up an
Hey thanks for setting up an account, great to see you here! "Peanut smuggler" might have been funnier yeah, but he really did make a fortune farming peanuts before running for President. All the facts in the song are true.
The "Geordie" bit is indeed because Jimmy Carter was awarded the freedom of Newcastle a few years ago. His mother's maiden name was Gordy, hence the Berry Gordy link. I have to give Ross credit for that, he wrote the 2nd verse. The line was originally "The proudest day for the ex Miss Gordy, was when her son was crowned a Geordie". It was a bit hard to sing though and I used artistic licensing to change it to "old Mrs Gordy".
I feel like I'm on VH1 story tellers here describing the whole tune hehe. Glad you like it :)
20lb for life! :)
Dan
Looking forward to
Looking forward to downloading some more ogg files.
Awesome songs so far, really like Jimmy Carter.
Good song, I like it. I as an
Good song, I like it. I as an American, I especially thankyou for not mentioning the fact the he was the worst American president to date, though Obama is giving him a run for the title.
No worries Doug, glad you
No worries Doug, glad you like the tune :)
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Dan
Great song Dan :) But to go
Great song Dan :)
But to go slightly off topic did anyboody catch the episode of American Dad tonight about peanut butter and included a cameo appearance from the man who inspired the song (he didn't last long before his face melted). It wasn't a new episode, but I'd forgotten that Jimmy Carter was in it.
Don't think I've seen that
Don't think I've seen that but I'll have to look it up now. I've been thinking of sending the song to Jimmy Carter anyway, just on the off chance he might hear it. Finding an office address won't be easy but it could be great publicity for us if he mentioned it.
20lb for life! :)
Dan
Just heard this song at the
Just heard this song at the end of TINAP - the Unicycle episode. Nice job, thanks for sharing. I am looking forward seeing you play on your Australian Tour.
;)
Thanks! We'd love to do an
Thanks! We'd love to do an Australian tour but it might be some way off. Hope we can get down there and entertain you all soon :)
20lb for life! :)
Dan
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