Richard's Poor Almanac by Richard Thompson for November 29, 2023
Transcript:
the beethoven's birthday song sung to "ode to joy" beethoven: ach, bitte. don't sing. come and listen to the story of a man named ludwig van, born the sixteenth of december, in the german town of bonn. wrote concertos, quartets, sonatas, missa solemnis & min-u-ets. beethoven: verdammter! kleinbeethovenkopfboutique sale and he never made a penny from those ugly stat-u-ettes.
Cpeckbourlioux 11 months ago
He was a Beverly Hillbillies fan.
SteveHL 11 months ago
In the book The Art of Richard Thompson, there is a section devoted to caricatures by Thompson. One of the best of these is of Beethoven. He was obviously important to Mr. Thompson.
artheaded1 11 months ago
You can sing this to the Beverly Hillbillies theme too
Teto85 Premium Member 11 months ago
I have one of those ugly Beethoven busts. When they were younger, one of our daughters asked, “Daddy, why is he so mad?”, “That’s Beethoven, he’s always mad.” “Why?” “Later.”
Vince M 11 months ago
I like that there’s apparently a German word “KleinBeethovenkopfboutique”.
jmcenanly 11 months ago
Schroeder has a closet full of those statuettes
Sisyphos 11 months ago
I sang it to the “Ode to Joy”! It works.
And, yeah, Little Louie got cheated out of his Ugly Bust royalties….