Monsters!

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Everybody do the monsters dance!  Always a good time at shows, this recording presents one of the rare times the song was NOT coupled with Effinjee.  If any song sums up the feel of those early Capitol Theater shows, I’d say this is it.

Trivia:

• The name of the song is taken from one of my favorite Sesame Street albums as a kid.  At some point, the “!” got removed from the song title, but I’m not sure when.
• “Perhaps he’s been at my vitamin pills” is, believe it or not, a Garfield reference, to a cartoon where a giant rat is standing around a corner ready to pounce on Garfield, who muses ‘what would rats want with vitamin pills’, or something to that effect.
• My sister, Wendy, 11 years old at the time of this recording, supplies the voice of the youngster afraid of monsters.

The blue flyer is from, I believe, our first show at the Capitol Theater.