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My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Is anyone else a fan of the song “My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors?” It’s a proudly geeky song by Canadian pop band Moxy Fruvous that has a lot of fun making up outrageous rhymes for various authors’ names, as the singer laments that his beloved is too busy reading them all to pay attention to him.
I’d bet the rent it’s the only pop song that name-checks Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Doris Lessing and Robertson Davies. It was released in the early ’90s, and it’s available on iTunes.
To get you started, here are a couple of Youtube videos. First up we have the band’s official video, which looks like a copy of a copy.
There’s also a cute, strange fan video using anime characters in which you can hear the music better. It can’t be embedded, but here is the link.
Finally, here are the lyrics.
Anybody want to give a little love for “MBLABOA?”
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By Kate
December 5, 2007 8:55 AM | Link to this
Big-purple-sparkly-hearted love to Moxy Fruvous! I love them. This song is Great Fun. Another MF ‘literary’ song is “The King of Spain”…a rewrite of The Prince and the Pauper: http://youtube.com/watch?v=YtPkDhM1Brs
(kindof a jumpy video)
Off to dig out my dusty ole ’90s CDS :)
By Kat
December 5, 2007 10:02 AM | Link to this
Thanks, Phil! The video entertained an entire library staff before opening time this morning. We can always use a good laugh around here.