Skiffle Music Puns

The title sums it up. I just need the lyrics, without them is too hard for me to follow the music.

To check if the lyrics worked, you should compare them with the official songs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTA-WnL8P-w&list=OLAK5uy_mjHQW1b0AGXdEZO6FvXjvq0NxPbsbjCrk&index=3

In 1954, a British traditional jazz musician named Lonnie Donegan began incorporating breaks in which his band played skiffle, a then-obscure offshoot of the blues that relied heavily on improvised instruments like washboards. Donegan worked under Chris Barber, one of the more prominent conservative/traditional jazz bandleaders of 1950s Britain, and Donegan's debut as a full-time skiffle performer was an unprecedented hit in the UK (the first debut to go gold). Because skiffle could be played either on cheap instruments or on household items, the genre exploded in popularity among the working class, with over 30,000 bands forming at its peak. Alumni of the skiffle craze included the Beatles, the Bee Gees, the Shadows, and the Hollies, along with Van Morrison and key members of the Stones, Who, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Fairport Convention, Pink Floyd, and Procol Harum. Although skiffle itself largely stopped being produced en masse by the end of the decade as Britain developed a more mature rock scene, many of the world's greatest rock musicians and bands got their start in skiffle. Do you think Britain would've become such a huge musical power (exceeding anywhere in Europe and rivaling the US, which has several times the population) without the skiffle fad?

I make a music podcast and for my next episode I want to explore the genres that influenced 1960s British Invasion bands. Most obvious is skiffle music and rockabilly which had a huge effect on artists like the Beatles, originally a skiffle group named the Quarrymen.

Then you've got British music hall that influenced the Kinks throughout much of the late 60s.

There's also the vaudeville theatricality of someone like Anthony Newley which is apparent in much of David Bowie's early music.

What other under the radar musical genres do you think played a role in the development of British pop music in the 1960s? I'd love to hear anymore examples people can think of!

Wrote this in reply to a comment in another thread but as I was doing it, comments were locked for some reason (not related to this subject so sure this is fine) -

The Beatles. Yep, a controversial one kick off with.

My reasoning -

They were originally an average/mediocre skiffle group who fell on exceptional luck to get massive at the right time. When they went from the Cavern to playing big arenas (or whatever they were at the time) it only took a few years and their musical style didn't really change, and no one in there could fucking hear them due to the screaming fans.

Then with that fame secured, they could basically piss about doing whatever knowing it'll sell well. Paul McCartney is still at it to this day - writes an album that sounds like it was chucked out in 5 minutes (and he's admitted as much) knowing it'll still sell big.

Nothing they did at any "phase" was new or revolutionary.

Oh and John Lennon was a nasty fucker who emotionally abused his son.

I've searched the internet and haven't found a response from someone I'd consider qualified to give one.

To me, "Now wait just a cotton picking minute" strikes me as a minced phrase where "cotton picking" is used as an intensifier instead of a curse, e.g. "Now wait just a god damn minute." Put to any of my friends, they'd say "cotton picking" refers to plantation slavery. But I'm not so sure.

The term "cotton picking", as far as I've found, isn't a common term the American lexicon when in reference to actually picking cotton, while the term "Cotten picking" very much is, because of the Seeger family's promotion of Elizabeth Cotten. Her song "Freight Train", written when Libba was just a teen, became a hit over in England and was played by literally every big name in American folk music history. The song was actually popularized by Peggy Seeger, who learned it from Libba as a child and played it during a tour in England. There it was misappropriated, copyrighted, and recorded by a skiffle singer named Chas McDevitt. The picking style she used (using her thumb for the melody and fingers for the bass lines, then became extremely popular in the folk music community.)

It was then re-recorded by McDevitt as a duet with Nancy Whisky, and the song then became a hit.

It was even popular with a band called The Quarrymen, who performed it a fair amount before rebranding. Subsequent to them, it's been covered by Jerry Garcia, Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Doc Watson, Peter Paul & Mary, Taj Mahal, Laura Veirs, and countless others.

So it seems to me "cotton picking" might actually just be a mistake due to a homonym. Does anyone here know better?

Do your worst!

The Beatles were an English rock band, formed in Liverpool in 1960, whose best-known line-up comprised John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all time and were integral to the development of 1960s counterculture and popular music's recognition as an art form. Rooted in skiffle, beat and 1950s rock and roll, their sound incorporated elements of classical music and traditional pop in innovative ways; the band later explored music styles ranging from ballads and Indian music to psychedelia and hard rock. As pioneers in recording, songwriting and artistic presentation, the Beatles revolutionised many aspects of the music industry and were often publicised as leaders of the era's youth and sociocultural movements. Led by primary songwriters Lennon and McCartney, the Beatles evolved from Lennon's previous group, the Quarrymen, and built their reputation playing clubs in Liverpool and Hamburg over three years from 1960, initially with Stuart Sutcliffe playing bass. The core trio of Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, together since 1958, went through a succession of drummers, including Pete Best, before asking Starr to join them in 1962. Manager Brian Epstein moulded them into a professional act, and producer George Martin guided and developed their recordings, greatly expanding their domestic success after their first hit, "Love Me Do", in late 1962. As their popularity grew into the intense fan frenzy dubbed "Beatlemania", the band acquired the nickname "the Fab Four", with Epstein, Martin and other members of the band's entourage sometimes given the informal title of "fifth Beatle".

By early 1964, the Beatles were international stars and had achieved unprecedented levels of critical and commercial success. They became a leading force in Britain's cultural resurgence, ushering in the British Invasion of the United States pop market, and soon made their film debut with A Hard Day's Night (1964). From 1965 onwards, they produced records of greater sophistication, including the albums Rubber Soul (1965), Revolver (1966) and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), and enjoyed further commercial success with The Beatles (also known as "the White Album", 1968) and Abbey Road (1969). Heralding the album era, their success elevated the album to be the dominant form of record consumption over singles; they also inspired a greater public interest in psychedelic drugs and Eastern spirituality, and

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

Pilot on me!!

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "

I won't be doing that today!

You take away their little brooms

This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

There hasn't been a post all year!

They’re on standbi

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

After all his first name is No-vac