ABC ran a special Sept. 22 honoring Norman Lear age 100. He has all his marbles and is full of life. His friend, Rita Moreno, also looked great. She chided him for not hiring her to be in “Golden Girls.” He said she didn’t look old enough. She told him, “I’m 66 years old, damnit!” He said, “But you don’t look it.”
Back in the 70s I used to watch some of his shows. At the time there was a great toy store in the Outer Richmond district of SF called “King Norman’s.” Toys ‘R Us opened in Daly City and King Norman was deposed, except in the song I wrote to sing for my friends in the kitchen.
King Norman Lear
Maude’s message to America tonight:
Appreciate folks who’ve had strokes
They can still sing
They got a whole lot to bring
You if can laugh at their jokes
Charlie’s message to America tonight:
The Democrats are hypocrites, through and through
And we can all laugh
At the White House staff
As if we had some power, too
King Norman Lear
King Norman Lear
In bed at night in Brentwood
What voices do you hear?
Mary’s message to America tonight
Something is out of control
Pat’s on the run
Heather thinks she’s a nun
Loretta better forget about her goal
Showing our real conditions!
People breaking down
An ordinary housewife
Going underground
King Norman Lear
King Norman Lear
Of all your darling daughter
Which one holds you most dear?
Rita Jenrette
Queen of the prom type, snub-nosed and delicious
gets married to a lawyer who is hard-assed and ambitious
and y’all send em off to Congress and what do you get?
Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette!
He starts seein other women right away in the hallways of power
and takin them 3-maritini-long lunch hours
don’t seem to care how bad he might upset
Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette!
Then they catch him in the Abscam, right on television
pocketing the bribe without too much indecision
like some compulsive gambler gettin down on a bet
against Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette!
And she tries to stand by him says blame it all on alcohol
says get this man to a doctor maybe save him from some final fall
and y’all down in Carolina can just forget
Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette!
Will he take her assistance? Nope, he takes her things and her money
says he’s got all the expenses she’s a w---- she’s a Playboy bunny
don’t cry all over Donahue he’s already all wet
over Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette!
And at last she attacks him, violating their intimacy
breaks the number one rule of thumb from under male supremacy
and as far as I know she’s still out there breakin em yet
Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette!
and alongside everybody who ever had to cover
up for some lying two-faced lover
I see the snub-nosed revolver silhouette
of Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette, Rita Jenrette!
Wanda Tinasky
Wanda Tinasky was a provocateur
traveled with a pun on every hand
all across the countryside, crashed on many a floor
and was even known to taunt an honest man
In Mendocino County, a time they talk about
in the pages of the press he or she took a stand
and soon the situation there was equally in doubt
The great ones just leave footprints in the sand
All along the internet that name shall resound
and the real identity be proved and improved
and everyone around will tell you how they found
the fingerprint, the signature move.
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