Friday on my Mind 139: Big Time Operator
Posted in Friday On My Mind, Music, 1960s at 16:00 on 4 November 2016
This breezy single from 1966 became a minor hit. I have a soft spot for it mainly because of the large number of rhymes it employs for operator – only the first of which, paper, doesn’t really work.
A newsboy on a paper, I worked an elevator, I knew that later, a higher rater, big time operator.
I drove an excavator, wine and (brandy?) waiter, decorator, estimator, big time operator.
As an air-line navigator, crime investigator, commentator, illustrator, big time operator.
I suppose they had rhyming dictionaries back then but it’s still quite a feat to work all of these into the song’s rhythm.
Zoot Money’s Big Roll Band: Big Time Operator
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