Lost Performances
Posted: Mon Jul 19, 2021 4:47 pm
I tried to google the lyrics to Barry Sobel's rap from 1980s Eddie Murphy HBO Uptown Comedy Express Special (which I think also had the first time I'd seen a young Chris "Bitch, paint my house!" Rock on it). You know the "I'd like to know your zodiac sign" rap, with "Now other comics, they just tell jokes. They get on the stage say 'Ever notice folks?' Then they talk about socks missing from some dryer. But I'd like to take you this much higher!"
There are zero results.
You can't find the lyrics online.
And here's the thing. Here I am 30+ years later and I still remember almost the entire rap. But the lyrics aren't somewhere online? I'm sure I can find a video of the performance, but I was 1000% confident that I could google the phrases "socks missing from some dryer" and "take you this much higher" and I'd find twenty links to the complete lyrics.
Nothing.
There are zero results.
You can't find the lyrics online.
And here's the thing. Here I am 30+ years later and I still remember almost the entire rap. But the lyrics aren't somewhere online? I'm sure I can find a video of the performance, but I was 1000% confident that I could google the phrases "socks missing from some dryer" and "take you this much higher" and I'd find twenty links to the complete lyrics.
Nothing.