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I remember years ago debating to almost an angry level about who wrote a particular song. It started as a joke when we winged the song at a pickup gig but then it got loud in the dressing room later after way too many beers. And just today it dawned on me.
We have a bunch of southerners here!!
So, inquiring minds (mine, anyway) want to know.
Who WROTE "RC Cola and Moon Pie"???
I know NRBQ had a minor hit with it and I have seen every "fun" band play it to great reaction, but I maintain that Terry Adams, one of the founding members of NRBQ, did NOT write that song. My dear sadly departed friend Norm said he did.
Does anybody know? I have heard Commander Cody do it, MANY folk rock bands, dozens of blues bands....
I DO know that what Big Bill Lister did in the 50s was NOT the same song as what NRBQ did in the 70s. Lister did GIMME and RC Cola and Moonpie. NRBE lifted the homage to food aspect of the song and recorded something different, and THAT was where the debate began!!
I was traveling in the south many years ago and ended up at a roadside diner type place and they brought me the ubiquitous RC Cola and Moonpie as a pre-dessert despite it not being on the menu anywhere, and that combination actually repulsed me because it was SO SWEET!!! Chocolate, marshmallow, a little cake and RC cola? At the same time? (I guess it's kind of how you get grits at breakfast if you order grits or not.)
Now though, the next time I am down that way I want some barbecued ribs and RC Cola and Moonpie for dessert! Cuz everything gonna be alright with an RC Cola and Moonpie!
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Yeah, see, the Bill Lister song isn't even close to the same song NRBQ did. Until I started looking into this I wasn't even aware of the Lister song and when I played it I said out loud (to nobody here but my dog) "WTH is THIS thing? That's not the song!"
I did that song with a band that had a horn section and man, that was fun to write swing horn parts for that! We did it with a groove like the American Bandstand theme. (Written by Barry Manilow for those who may not know that little fun fact.) This sudden spike of interest started by my thinking that somewhere in their 50 year history Asleep At The Wheel HAD to have done this song, but I can't find it. It just seems like a Ray Benson thing. Fun song. Like "Too Much Fun" as done by Commander Cody. Which that horn section band also did.
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As Floyd Jane pointed out, the song was first recorded by Bill Lister in 1951. +++ HERE +++ is some background on the 1973 NRBQ song.
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And as I pointed out..... Guys, IT'S NOT THE SAME SONG!!!! Did you listen to them side by side? They are not even close. The lyrics in the Lister song are not the lyrics in the NRBQ song. Nor is the melody or the chord progression the same. Wow. I listened to both and did my Google research before I made the post.
Apparently Terry Adams wrote the NRBQ song.
There are at last count 6 different songs named The One That Got Away. My song with the same name makes 7. That doesn't make them the same song. They are in no way even close to similar. My original post said
"I DO know that what Big Bill Lister did in the 50s was NOT the same song as what NRBQ did in the 70s."
Geeze. I am not stupid. And I have the same Google you do. Did anybody listen to those 2 songs before telling me about them?
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Eddie, I was hoping you would click on the link I provided in the post above. Then you would have read this: In 1951, Big Bill Lister recorded an homage to the snack combination, "Gimme an RC Cola and a Moon Pie," and it was from this song that NRBQ lifted the retro arrangement for "RC Cola and a Moon Pie." NRBQ keyboardist, Terry Adams, told the Hartford Courant that he was an RC Cola enthusiast when he was younger: "Back then, I drank RCs, like two or three 16-ounce ones a day. The older, Bill Lister song inspired the arrangement of the later Terry Adams original song.
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You asked who wrote the song.
I gave you the answer to both.
Quite aware that they are two different songs.
No one claimed otherwise.
Why the hissy fit?
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I read that exact web page this morning at about 1am before I posted. But then I listened to the 2 songs, which are ZERO percent similar. Better question. Did you listen to both songs?
Note the article said he lifted the arrangement, not the melody or the lyric. Which, as I said, are not even close. Not even similar. If they were, don't you think maybe lawsuits would have followed because NRBC put their name in it and claimed it. NRBQ
From a different page.
"Terry Adams' inspiration apparently came from his own youthful love of RC and Big Bill Lister's 1951 hit 'Gimme an RC Cola and a Moon Pie'."
Inspiration for. Not the same song. Inspiration for.
I don't want no cornbread
I don't really like peas and rice
I don't want no carrot
But I really like a pizza slice
Everything gonna be alright
With an RC Cola and MoonPie
That's NRBQ. RC Cols and MoonPie
Gimme an RC Cola and a MoonPie and play "Maple on the Hill"
I'll catch that freight train on the fly and leave my corn down at the mill
Cause I sold my calf for a dollar and a half so brother, I can pay the bill
Gimme an RC Cola and a MoonPie and play "Maple on the Hill"
That's Bill Lister. GIMME an RC Cola and MoonPie
Not the same song.
I was asking who wrote what because they aren't the same song. For years I thought George Frayne (Commander Cody) wrote it because I heard them do it first.
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I did listen to both songs.
You asked who wrote the song.
I gave you the answer to both.
Quite aware that they are two different songs.
No one claimed otherwise.
Why the hissy fit?
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