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	== Interpretations ==		== Interpretations ==
	* The lyrics are taken from three of the Red Crayola's earliest songs. Each song was later recorded separately for ''[[Fingerpainting]]'' (1999)		* The lyrics are taken from three of the Red Crayola's earliest written songs. Each song was later recorded separately for ''[[Fingerpainting]]'' (1999)
	** "[[There There Betty Betty]]"		** "[[There There Betty Betty]]"
	** "[[In My Baby's Ruth]]"		** "[[In My Baby's Ruth]]"

Dotclub: /* Retrospectives */

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	== Retrospectives ==		== Retrospectives ==
	[[~~Mayo Thompson~~]], ~~2010~~<ref>~~[https://books.google.com/books?id=22WxDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 House of Hits:~~ The ~~Story of Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios~~ pg.~~168]~~</ref>		[[David Grubbs]], 2002<ref>The Wire, April 2002 pg.22</ref>

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	~~I guess that we had the funniest use of the Gold Star reverb chambers. One night we just decided~~ to ~~do something funny in the chambers. So we went to a 7~~-~~11 store and got a whole bunch of those little paper bags. . . . So we had a whole stack of these things~~, ~~and we opened up the chamber and crawled in there~~. ~~We put a guitar~~ in ~~one corner, then we started blowing up~~ the ~~bags with air, and then popped them, wadded them up, and threw them at the guitar. We recorded the whole process and used it in a song called~~ "The Shirt." ~~We added some tracks to that, but it was basically the song.~~		''God Bless The Red Crayola'' for years made no sense to me - it was such an elusive, difficult to fathom record. What were those slapping sounds in the track "The Shirt"? Wet shirts being slapped on a concrete floor?

			The Wire: Didn't Mayo ever tell you what they were?

	I ~~think we were the only guys at the time — except the engineers who moved mics around~~ in ~~them — who ever saw the insides of the reverb chamber. The studio had~~ a ~~spring reverb and a plate reverb in those days, but we had the live chambers~~. ~~If you asked the engineer for a longer reverb time, he would disappear for a few minutes and then come back, and it would be done~~.		Yes, but I don't know if I'm permitted to say in a publication. It's not wet shirts being slapped on concrete [laughs].
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	[[~~David Grubbs~~]], ~~2002~~<ref>The ~~Wire, April 2002~~ pg.22</ref>		[[Mayo Thompson]], 2010<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=22WxDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 House of Hits: The Story of Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios pg.168]</ref>

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	~~''God Bless The Red Crayola'' for years made no sense~~ to me - ~~it was such an elusive~~, ~~difficult to fathom record~~. ~~What were those slapping sounds~~ in the ~~track~~ "The Shirt"~~? Wet shirts being slapped on a concrete floor?~~		I guess that we had the funniest use of the Gold Star reverb chambers. One night we just decided to do something funny in the chambers. So we went to a 7-11 store and got a whole bunch of those little paper bags. . . . So we had a whole stack of these things, and we opened up the chamber and crawled in there. We put a guitar in one corner, then we started blowing up the bags with air, and then popped them, wadded them up, and threw them at the guitar. We recorded the whole process and used it in a song called "The Shirt." We added some tracks to that, but it was basically the song.

	The ~~Wire: Didn't Mayo ever tell~~ you ~~what they were?~~		I think we were the only guys at the time — except the engineers who moved mics around in them — who ever saw the insides of the reverb chamber. The studio had a spring reverb and a plate reverb in those days, but we had the live chambers. If you asked the engineer for a longer reverb time, he would disappear for a few minutes and then come back, and it would be done.

	~~Yes~~, ~~but I don't know if I'm permitted to say in~~ a ~~publication. It's not wet shirts being slapped on concrete [laughs]~~.
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	I think we were the only guys at the time — except the engineers who moved mics around in them — who ever saw the insides of the reverb chamber. The studio had a spring reverb and a plate reverb in those days, but we had the live chambers. If you asked the engineer for a longer reverb time, he would disappear for a few minutes and then come back, and it would be done.		I think we were the only guys at the time — except the engineers who moved mics around in them — who ever saw the insides of the reverb chamber. The studio had a spring reverb and a plate reverb in those days, but we had the live chambers. If you asked the engineer for a longer reverb time, he would disappear for a few minutes and then come back, and it would be done.
			</blockquote>

			[[David Grubbs]], 2002<ref>The Wire, April 2002 pg.22</ref>

			<blockquote>
			''God Bless The Red Crayola'' for years made no sense to me - it was such an elusive, difficult to fathom record. What were those slapping sounds in the track "The Shirt"? Wet shirts being slapped on a concrete floor?

			The Wire: Didn't Mayo ever tell you what they were?

			Yes, but I don't know if I'm permitted to say in a publication. It's not wet shirts being slapped on concrete [laughs].
	</blockquote>		</blockquote>

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Interpretations

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	== Interpretations ==		== Interpretations ==
	* The lyrics are taken from three of the Red Crayola's earliest songs. Each song was ~~re-~~recorded separately for ~~1999's~~ ''[[Fingerpainting]]''		* The lyrics are taken from three of the Red Crayola's earliest songs. Each song was later recorded separately for ''[[Fingerpainting]]'' (1999)
	** "[[There There Betty Betty]]"		** "[[There There Betty Betty]]"
	** "[[In My Baby's Ruth]]"		** "[[In My Baby's Ruth]]"

Dotclub: /* Interpretations */

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Interpretations

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	== Interpretations ==		== Interpretations ==
	* The lyrics are from three of the Red Crayola's earliest songs. Each song was re-recorded separately for 1999's ''[[Fingerpainting]]''		* The lyrics are taken from three of the Red Crayola's earliest songs. Each song was re-recorded separately for 1999's ''[[Fingerpainting]]''
	** "[[There There Betty Betty]]"		** "[[There There Betty Betty]]"
	** "[[In My Baby's Ruth]]"		** "[[In My Baby's Ruth]]"

Dotclub at 03:22, 14 November 2024

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	== Lyrics ==		== Lyrics ==
	{{Lyrics\|		{{Lyrics\|
			[There There Betty Betty]
	Down here at the poolside		Down here at the poolside
	I see myself in the surface		I see myself in the surface
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	There, there, Betty, Betty		There, there, Betty, Betty

			[In My Baby's Ruth]
	Oh, when I come to see her		Oh, when I come to see her
	Ask her, let me in		Ask her, let me in
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	Now while in my baby's room		Now while in my baby's room

			[Mother]
	Oh, this is her name		Oh, this is her name
	Baby she's not a game		Baby she's not a game

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Interpretations

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	== Interpretations ==		== Interpretations ==
	* The lyrics are from three of the Red Crayola's earliest songs. Each song was re-recorded separately for 1999's ''[[Fingerpainting]]''		* The lyrics are from three of the Red Crayola's earliest songs. Each song was re-recorded separately for 1999's ''[[Fingerpainting]]''
	** [[There There Betty Betty]]		** "[[There There Betty Betty]]"
	** [[In My Baby's Ruth]]		** "[[In My Baby's Ruth]]"
	** [[Mother]]		** "[[Mother]]"

	== Retrospectives ==		== Retrospectives ==

Dotclub at 08:50, 6 August 2023

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	== Chronology ==		== Chronology ==
	* {{RLink\|God}}		* {{RLink\|God}} {{MediaLink\|YouTube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atQKZkvhaZs}}
			** [[Mayo Thompson]] - vocals, guitar
			** [[Steve Cunningham]] - bass

	== Interpretations ==		== Interpretations ==

Dotclub at 22:08, 26 June 2023

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	== Chronology ==		== Chronology ==
	* {{RLink\|God}}		* {{RLink\|God}}
	* {{RLink\|Fingerpainting}}

	== Interpretations ==		== Interpretations ==

Dotclub at 18:26, 26 June 2023

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	== Chronology ==		== Chronology ==
	* {{RLink\|God}}		* {{RLink\|God}}
			* {{RLink\|Fingerpainting}}

	== Interpretations ==		== Interpretations ==
	* The lyrics are from three ~~early~~ Red ~~Krayola~~ songs. Each ~~were~~ re-recorded separately for 1999's ''[[Fingerpainting]]''		* The lyrics are from three of the Red Crayola's earliest songs. Each song was re-recorded separately for 1999's ''[[Fingerpainting]]''
	** [[There There Betty Betty]]		** [[There There Betty Betty]]
	** [[In My Baby's Ruth]]		** [[In My Baby's Ruth]]
	** [[Mother]]		** [[Mother]]

			== Retrospectives ==
	[[Mayo Thompson]], 2010<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=22WxDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 House of Hits: The Story of Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios pg.168]</ref>		[[Mayo Thompson]], 2010<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=22WxDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA168 House of Hits: The Story of Gold Star/SugarHill Recording Studios pg.168]</ref>