When I was a kid, I got a record from my brother. I don’t remember if it was an LP or an EP, but it was a comedy record called The Off-Beats in Lo-Fo.
The thing I remember most about it is that they sing the words “George Washington Bridge” over and over again to common circus acrobat music I can’t remember the name of. Not The Man on the Flying Trapeeze.
Anyway, there is absolutely zero record of it on the internet. I have looked before and I looked again today because my daughter was talking to me about lost media. It’s as if it never existed. It’s not even listed on sites about lost media. It’s certainly not anywhere on Discogs (although there are multiple other listings for other records for groups called Off-Beats or The Off-Beats).
Thankfully, when I asked, my brother confirmed to me that the record did, in fact, exist, because even though I remembered listening to it many times, I was starting to think I imagined the whole thing.
My guess is it was a relatively unknown comedy group that did a tiny record pressing to sell albums at shows. And it was probably terrible.
But I wish I could hear it again anyway.
is it this nonsense from sesame street?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfO-L_vTmd8
more
https://muppet.fandom.com/wiki/Let's_Sing_a_Song_That_Everybody_Knows
WTF! No it totally isn’t. But that is weird as fuck.
It was very definitely a record album called “The Off-Beats in Lo-Fo.” I remember the cover. It was a bit on the sparse side. And this is not the same voice of the lead voice in the other.
Edit: Aha, I solved this part by finding out that it is a Spanish song called “Sobre Las Olas” or “Over the Waves” and singing “George Washington Bridge” to it was a kid’s tradition in Queens going back decades.