johnnywest
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Post by johnnywest on Feb 23, 2007 22:34:48 GMT -5
My favorite novelty hit of the '70s.
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mst3k
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Post by mst3k on Feb 23, 2007 22:59:15 GMT -5
Heh... good parody of "Love Jones".
Bas'etball jones... I got a bas'etball jones...
My parents had the Los Cochinos LP that this song is on... the album cover was a car door, and there was an insert that showed all the pot they had hidden inside the door (pretty cool, even though I had no idea what it meant back then... I was just a kid).
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cartman2002
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Post by cartman2002 on Feb 24, 2007 13:18:58 GMT -5
Basketball Jones peaked at #15 in 1973, one notch higher than the song it parodied "Love Jones" by the Brighter Side Of Darkness
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BillboardBoy
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Post by BillboardBoy on Sept 25, 2007 8:57:52 GMT -5
The animated video is a little racey.
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dth1971
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Post by dth1971 on Sept 25, 2007 9:45:13 GMT -5
I think John Wilson who did many animated music video film shorts in the 1970's (mostly for the Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour) did the music video for Cheech and Chong's Basketball Jones (featuring Tyrone Shoelaces).
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Post by tico on Sept 25, 2007 10:58:04 GMT -5
I thought this was "Basketball Jones" from Chris Rock on the Space Jam soundtrack.
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dth1971
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Post by dth1971 on Oct 6, 2007 7:14:43 GMT -5
Cheech and Chong had 2 more Top 40 hits following "Basketball Jones": "Sister Mary Elephant" and "Earache My Eye (Featuring Alice Bowie)". C&C missed hitting the Top 40 again in 1976 with their novelty version of the Leiber and Stroller 1950's penned classic "Framed" (#41 Billboard), in 1978 with "Bloat On" (a parody of the Floaters' "Float On" reaching #41 on Billboard), and in 1985 with "Born In East L.A." (a parody of Bruce Springsteen's "Born in the USA", reaching #47 or #48 on Billboard, though on AT40 in 1986 when Casey Kasem was still host and in 1990 when Shadoe Stevens was hosting a drop piece of "Born in East L.A." by C&C was played).
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