Visiting - again - MTC (My Third Childhood)

Tonight, I found it! Took years - but it's now archived... perhaps the last gem of a tune from my formative years growing up in Levittown.

First, the songs from my third childhood that have been previously found:

"Rolly Polly" - Fred Rose's 1946 song, first recorded by Bob Wills

"Shrimp Boat's A'Coming" - Jo Stafford's Columbia Records from July, 1951 stayed on the charts for 17 weeks... written by Paul Mason Howard and Paul Weston

"Come On-A My House" - this 1951 charmer was recorded by Rosemary Clooney, words and music by William Saroyan and Ross Bagdasarian

"The Little Blue Man" - Betty Johnson's 1958 hit on Atlantic Records... music by Fred Ebb & Paul Klein - it has been rumored "The Little Blue Man" was voiced by Hugh Downs

And, of course, the incredible warblings of Leona Aderson whose rendering of "Rats in My Room" can be found on her classic 1957 album, Music To Suffer By. Miss Anderson, the sister of cowboy movie star Bronco Billy Anderson, before she found her "voice" appeared in films with Stan Laurel and Charlie Chaplin...years later she graced the Vincent Price classic, "The House on Haunted Hill."

"Ambrose, Part 5" ... don't go looking for parts 1 to 4 - they were never recorded... this Linda Laurie classic charted at #52 on Billboard Hot 100 in March 1959... Linda (aka Linda Gertz) was one of those fabulous artists who grew up in Brooklyn and apparently knew a lot about subways.

"Sick Manny's Gym" - my favorite song from 1960 ... well, I was a strange sort of kid ... this one was performed by Leo De Lyon & the Musclemen and - would you believe? - it launched the career of Al Kooper.

Now, back to what I found tonight... a song that sold millions of records ... actually, the flip side was the biggie... the East Coast release "Beware of the Blob" by The Zanies from Doré Records... creeping and leaping for me, however, was what was on the "B" side - a little ditty called "Do You Dig Me, Mr Pygmy." At last.

Tonight, bliss reigns in Berlin.