Song 773: This week on the playlist you can hear Monkey See, Monkey Do by Josh Joffen, who also wrote the song, and you can find a YouTube video of it by clicking on the title. Seven weeks after my previous personal friend song post, this week's playful outline comes from one of my Fast Folk colleagues. He had written it a few years before I met him, and the recording of it comes from an April 1988 appearance that the FF group did at The Bottom Line in Manhattan. I started hanging out with the FF bunch not long after I moved to Brooklyn in September of 1988, and fairly soon, Josh and I both did solo performances at live events where I did the driving in my van to get us to the stage. It didn't take long to learn a lot of the lines from this ride, and I probably could have added a harmony to it during those onstage events if he had wanted me to do that. It's been a long time since those halcyon days, and back then, Josh warned everyone that sooner or later there is gonna be a hell of a sound. Fortunately, it hasn't happened yet, but in recent years, I have gotten more concerned as some public figures seem to want to push us over that nuclear brink, and if they succeed, there'll be nothing left to pass around.
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