Jawbone 118: Bill Maynard And The Terror of Fu Manchu

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The 118th episode of Jawbone, in which JoCo calls in to talk about Rock and Roll Boy.

Transcript of JoCo's call[edit]

38:12 *intro*
38:25
Hey guys, Jonathan Coulton here. I wanted to fill you in on a little song called Rock and Roll Boy. I was, I had nothing, I had no ideas. So as I frequently do when that happens, I was trolling the internet for interesting things, and I found this piece of audio from a collection of kids speaking into tape recorders. And I remembered doing that when I was young. And all these silly tapes of me doing bad western accents and that sort of thing. And there was this one by a six-year-old kid named Justin, in which he sang a song called Rock and Roll Boy. It was harder than I thought to put it together. The audio itself was pretty crappy. It was like, you could actually hear, in between every line, you could hear the clicking stop, and sometimes line would start with little snippets of whatever parent was there reminding him what he was going to say next. But there is also, you know, he is six years old, and there is not a band behind him, so he was, he meandered a little bit. But I did manage to cut it and tweak it a little bit and build some, sort of, something out of it. The interesting thing was even though he was all over the place; like, he knew what he was doing. He knew exactly what he was doing. He was singing a song that he had in his head. Which I think is pretty impressive for a six-year-old boy. I also love, "When I was born, I was just a young boy." That is so true, man. You know, I feel like, I felt like we all feel that way. Anyway, that's Rock and Roll Boy. Enjoy.
40:12 *Song starts*