Shel Silverstein

[Bright Moments]

carpe diem!

hairy jazz

inside folk

[Christiern]

Shel was a funny man who made interesting observations in his songs. One that I particularly liked made fun of white blues singers with soap behind their ears--it came out during the folk music fad and was spot on

[Alexander]

Back in the early 80s, one my friends had a parent who naively bought him a couple of Shel Silverstein albums based on his reputation as a children's poet. The parent (who bought the albums at a garage sale, I think) obviously hadn't looked at the songs. It became quite "the thing" to go over to this guy's house after school and listen to those LPs. The songs I remember best were "I Saw Polly in a Porny" and "Freakin' at the Freaker's Ball." My favorite line from "Polly" was "I didn't know she was theatrically inclined..."

[BruceH]

Give me Jonathan Richman or They Might Be Giants any day.

[Alexander]

Give me Jonathan Richman or They Might Be Giants any day.

His singing is certainly an acquired taste. He's like Tom Leher in that way.

[Chuck Nessa]

Give me Jonathan Richman or They Might Be Giants any day.

His singing is certainly an acquired taste. He's like Tom Leher in that way.

Nothing really wrong with that.

[Christiern]

It was Leher who inspired me to poison pigeons in the park.

[Chuck Nessa]

It was Leher who inspired me to poison pigeons in the park.

Police report to follow.

[Kalo]

It was Leher who inspired me to poison pigeons in the park.

I hope you weren't "inspired" by any of his other songs, Chris.

[Christiern]

No, when I hold a hand I fully expect--make that demand--that there be someone on the other end of it.

[Chuck Nessa]

No, when I hold a hand I fully expect--make that demand--that there be someone on the other end of it.

I just had chills.

[John L]

When I was growing up, somebody gave me Uncle Shelby's (Silverstein) book of A,B,Zs. Now that was a riot! Talk about dangerous inspiration (for children)!

[Alexander]

When I was growing up, somebody gave me Uncle Shelby's (Silverstein) book of A,B,Zs. Now that was a riot! Talk about dangerous inspiration (for children)!

"Uncle Shelby has heard the children playing while he was trying to sleep and he has thought and thought and thought about them..."

[johnlitweiler]

He wrote some of my favorite hillbilly songs like "Put Another Log on the Fire" and "Pour Me Another Tequila, Sheila / and take off your red satin dress."

There's a book about Charles Bukowski w/a photo of him and Buk. drinking and laughing togetgher. Significant?

[paul secor]

He wrote some of my favorite hillbilly songs like "Put Another Log on the Fire" and "Pour Me Another Tequila, Sheila / and take off your red satin dress."

There's a book about Charles Bukowski w/a photo of him and Buk. drinking and laughing togetgher. Significant?

Don't know about a photo with Silverstein being significant, but it's not unusual to see a photo of Bukowski with a glass or bottle in hand.