George Burns

posted by mihow on July 25th, 2002

I just thought of George Burns. Just now. I haven’t thought about him in a while. “I Wish I Were 18 Again” was my favorite song in the whole wide world when I was 7. Holy cow, I loved him. It was the second record I ever owned, second to Blondie’s “The Tide is High.” Anyhow, I just thought about him and I remembered he did pass away. I remember being a kid and begging my mother to not tell me when this event took place as I was not sure I could handle the news. I still have that record. It crackles and pops and spins around all warped. What was your first record?

42 Responses to “George Burns”

  1. Megan Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 10:32 AM

    The Jackson 5 “Victory” album. I was 5.

  2. Megan Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 10:33 AM

    By the way, uber props for the Blondie album.

  3. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 10:37 AM

    It was only a 45. I was only sort of cool. And most of that was later destroyed during the not-so-cool years of metal. Indeed.

  4. tobyjoe Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 10:55 AM

    i’ve never owned a record, but i think my first tape was The Boys.

    George Burns fucking FREAKED ME OUT and TERRIFIED ME.

  5. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:11 AM

    You weren’t even born yet when he was popular.

    How do you mean he freaked you out? was it the cigar? Was it the wrinkles? Was it his age? Did he touch you, TobyJoe?

  6. robert Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:12 AM

    The first tape I ever bought on my own (with allowance money) was Men At Work’s Business as Usual. I was ten.

    First 45 I ever owned was The Gambler by Kenny Rogers. I remember this because what I wanted was The Devil Went Down to Georgia, but somehow I learned when to hold them and when to fold them instead.

    Which reminds me, Melissa (the wife) thought that the Kenny Rogers song Lucile had the lyric “You picked a fine time to leave me Lucile, with 400 kids and a cow in the field”

    It was actually 4 HUNGRY kids and a cow in the field.

    I’m shocked at the amount of Kenny Rogers in this post.

  7. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:18 AM

    Wow, 400 kids. That poor woman. Lucile didn’t leave him, she turned inside out.

    How does one feed 400 kids with only one cow? Jeepers.

    DIDN’T SHE THINK OF THAT?! DIDN’T SHE?! THAT RATIO IS ALL FUCKED UP!!!

  8. Megan Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:20 AM

    Dude, I love Kenny. My mom has a signed, personalized tambourine from him hanging on their bathroom door. He was just here in MI and I saw his bus pull up to the venue (marquee gave away who it was)

    First tape was Phil Collins’ Genesis, and first CD was George Michael’s “Freedom.” God, I had really shitty taste in music.

  9. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:21 AM

    First CD: Metallica’s Ride The Lightening.

  10. freakgirl Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:23 AM

    First album bought with my own money: Foreigner 4.

    I know.

  11. robert Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:27 AM

    Michele, we can’t really get on Melissa for thinking it was 400 kids. As you will remember, you and I actually believed Mom could see through walls.

    We also kept those big plastic balls we won at the carnival out of the sun because we KNEW they would blow up and send us into the next county the moment sunshine touched them.

    So, we really have no right to pick on her.

  12. Randy Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:27 AM

    Did Lucille live in a shoe by any chance?

  13. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:29 AM

    ha h aha!!!!

    Those Balls lived in the basement during the day. I REMEMBER!! They could only come out at night.

    It was totally aunt sue’s fault. DAMN!!!

    I wish I had them now. Those big balls.

  14. Alias Guy Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:29 AM

    Laughing at the 400 kids & just the one cow…

    first cd, U2’s Boy.

  15. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:34 AM

    Rob, do you remember making horses out of the bar stools and riding them while we listened to “The Gambler?”

    Good times.

  16. freakgirl Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:38 AM

    BWA HA HA HA HA HA!

    I wish I had grown up in your family.

  17. tobyjoe Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:40 AM

    george burns was so fucked up.

    i’ll list the things that scared me:

    he smoked (nothing more disgusting, even scat fetishes)

    he was older than the earth

    he played god in every movie, i think

    his voice gave away that he was, in fact, dead

    *he was nowhere near funny, yet people loved him

    to me, he was the devil and only i could see his horns.

  18. scbob Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:40 AM

    Freakgirl, I’m just glad they were the children of Diane’s first husband!!!!

  19. Megan Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:43 AM

    Tobyjoe: All valid points. ::sliding over to Tobyjoe’s side on the issue::

  20. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:44 AM

    He played the Devil as well, didn’t he?

  21. Randy Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:45 AM

    Okay, just for the record, the lyrics to the song are …

    “You picked a fine time to leave me, Lucille With four hungry children and a CROP in the field.” Not a cow.

    And I only know this because I used to own that Kenny Rogers album on 8-track. That and the Charlie Daniel’s album that had “Devil Went Down to Georgia” on it. Which I can recite.

    I’ll crawl back in my hole now.

  22. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:51 AM

    No need to crawl into a hole, randy. You may correct Roberto. He was wrong. Wrong indeed.

    I’d rather have a crop. At least it keeps givin. I don’t like milk. And once you kill a cow, meats all gone. What kind of crop was it? Do we have any idea? A corn crob, not so good. If it were a tomato crop, that could be better.

    What the hell would she have done anyway? Lucile? Was she whoring for food?

  23. Randy Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:54 AM

    Well, if they lived in San Fran, perhaps it was a marijuana crop.

    Oh, and my friend in high school used to think the words to AC/DC’s “Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap” were “Dirty Dean and His Thunder Jeans”.

  24. robert Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:55 AM

    Crap, not cow, it’s crop.

    (say that fast 5 times)

    I also remember Michele using a tape deck to tape the songs to the movies Xanadu and Oliver off the TV so that she could listen to them later.

    And while Michele’s first crush was George Burns, mine was Olivia Newton John. I had much better taste than Michele.

  25. tobyjoe Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:56 AM

    Thirty Thieves and the Thunder Chief

  26. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 11:57 AM

    I loved her too. I did. I’m planning on suing her for making me 45 % gay.

    I did. Freaking Beta VHS crap didn’t come out soon enough. Bastards.

  27. Megan Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:01 PM

    And it’s not even just “a crop in the field”...it’s “crops in the field.” So, she can feed her 4 hungry children.

  28. Randy Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:04 PM

    Yes!!! I so totally used to do that taping thing too. Except I wouldn’t just tape the songs, I’d tape entire movies and listen to them in bed at night. I was SO ready for VCR technology to come along.

  29. Randy Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:05 PM

    Megan, you missed the point of the song. Lucille was the one who left. The husband was the one who had to stay behind and feed the 4 kids with that one crop.

    Lucille was probably out banging The Gambler.

  30. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:05 PM

    now now

    I taped the damn movie as well. Till it ran out. Then I flipped the tape.

    I was very sad. I would put it near my head on my pillow and pretend I was a rollerskating hottie muse.

  31. Megan Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:08 PM

    Yeah, but Randy, on top of having 4 fuckin’ screaming kids, he’s got a shit load of crops in the field that he’s got to take care of himself. Not just one lousy crop, but lots of them. And one is an entire tomato crop that are all yellowy and he’s not sure how to grow them.

    I don’t blame Lucille for leavin’. I probably would’ve to, since I heard they lived together before we were married.

    Aw, man. I suck, don’t I?

  32. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:10 PM

    hahahahhaha!!!

    NO! You don’t suck. Dirty bitches, living with boys out of wedlock. Whores. All of them are going to hell.

  33. Randy Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:10 PM

    I think I saw those kids on Jerry Springer not too long ago.

  34. Debra Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:10 PM

    First 45 was Depeche Mode’s Strangelove.

    First CD was U2 Joshua Tree.

    And TobyJoe, those are some serious George Burns issues.

  35. freakgirl Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:12 PM

    Lucille was such a whore.

  36. Megan Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:13 PM

    I feel so much better that we got to the root of this song.

    ::I love you guys::

  37. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:13 PM

    I see what’s going on here.

    TobyJoe hates George Burns.

    Mihow asks why.

    TobyJoe calls George Burns the Devil.

    “The Devil went Down to Georgia”

    TobyJoe grew up in Georgia

    Tell us, honey What did George do to you while he was there?

  38. tobyjoe Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:15 PM

    It’s what he refused to do.

    King of Sin, my ass!

  39. mihow Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:16 PM

    ha ha ha!!

  40. nifkin Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 12:40 PM

    i think the first record i got intentionally because (at the time) i liked the music was one by quiet riot…

    no, not the popular one with all the songs you know, the one after that…

    yeah, a real crowning achievement in my life…

  41. megami Says:
    July 25th, 2002 at 06:05 PM

    First record I recieved as a gift when I was 8 – Michael Jackson’s Thriller.

    First tape I recieved as a gift when I was 10 – Wham (the one with Wake Me Up Before You Go Go)

    First tape I bought on my own when I was 12 – New Order Substance 1987 (1)

    First CD I bought – You know, I don’t think I’ve ever gone into a store and bought myself a CD. Hmm. But I have lots of them. Hmm.

  42. sarah Says:
    September 7th, 2002 at 10:14 AM

    4 hungrey kids and a crop in the field?

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