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Hair
It's Nightime in the Big City
A fat man spits cherry pits into a cuspidor
Freshly fallen snow turns gray in the gutter
ÂWe got quite a show for you tonight. it's about a subject that everyone's familiar with, and I can talk about it off the top of my headÂ
Gonna be playin songs about hairdos and hair don'ts.Â
The Singers and The Songs
Bill Carlisle  Sally Let Your Bangs Hang Down ÂThe Voltaire of Hillbilly musicÂ
They Might Be Giants  Bangs
Eddie Noack  Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Piano Red  Baldheaded Lena
Sonny Burgess  Red Headed Woman ÂYou hear a record like that and you wish more rockabilly bands had trumpetsÂ
J.B. Leniour  Don't Touch My Head
Ray Price  Bright Lights and Blonde Haired Women
Roy Bird and His Blues Jumpers  Bald Head
(Professor Longhair)
Hank Ballard  How You Gonna Get Respect ÂA political statement that you can dance toÂ
Joe Clay  Don't Mess With My Ducktail ÂHe may not have made it big, but that doesn't mean his records weren't any good.Â
Louis Jordan and His Tympani Five  Chartreuse
Elvis Costello and the Attractions  Baby's Got a Brand New Hairdo
Eddie ÂCleanhead Vinson  Cleanhead Blues
Johnny Cash  You're My Baby (demo)
Other People and Players
Cliff Carlisle
George C. Scott
Dolly Parton  ÂI'm not offended by all those dumb blonde jokes, because I know I'm not dumb. I also know I'm not blonde. A wise woman that Dolly Parton.Â
Paul Gaughin
Kurt Schwitters
Beck
Dr. Feelgood and the Interns
Basil Wolverton  cartoonist who drew Lena the Hyena
Al Capp  Lil' Abner
Salvador Dali
Frank Sinatra
Boris Karloff
Matt Groening
Lucille Ball
Muddy Waters
Jack Benny
Carl Reiner
Alan Brady
Nikolai Lenin
Vladimir Lenin
James Brown
Joe Cirello  barber from Philly who claimed to have invented the duck's ass in 1940
Egyptians
Coco Chanel
Clara Bow  grew a bob ÂMaybe someone should write a song for these women called ÂAlmost Grew My Hair'Â
Billy Boy Arnold
Bo Diddley
Larry Chess
The Brothers Grimm
Rapunzel
P.G. Wodehouse
Famous Bald People
Yule Brenner
Sean Connery
Larry David
Mister Clean
Ron Howard
Samuel L Jackson
Howard Mandel
Charlie Brown
Charles Barkley
Andre Aggassi
Lex Luther
ÂI gave a bald-headed friend a comb. You know what he said? I'll never part with it.Â
Kings Who Wore Wigs
Louis the eighth
Edward the first
Louis the twelfth
King Phillip
King George The Second
Places
Massachusetts
Tahiti
Lower Slobovia
Prairieville, TX
Louisiana
Bourbon Street
Jersey City, NJ
Chicago
England
Famous People Who Wore Bangs
The Beatles
Marlo Thomas
Prince Valiant
Moe  ÂArguably the smartest of the Three Stooges, but I'm more of a Shep man myselfÂ
Andy Warhol
Famous Redheads
Red Buttons
Malcolm X
Alexander The Great
Billy the Kid
Wilma Flintstone
Galileo
Sinclair Lewis
Yosemite Sam
Bette Midler
Molly Ringwald
Little Orphan Annie
Famous Blondes
Grace Kelly
Marilyn Monroe
Britney Spears
Lisa Kudrow
Goldie Hawn
Paris Hilton
Gorgeous George (The Human Orchid)
Other Songs and Albums
Devil's Haircut
Electric Mud
Pomp and Circumstance
Almost Cut My Hair  Bob quotes a few lines in an email from D. Crosby
I'm a Man
I Wish You Would
Record Labels
Sun
Cool Records
Chess
Vee-Jay
Movies, Magazines, Books, TV Shows and other Entertainment
Life Magazine
Mad Magazine
Matt Groening
Lucille Ball
Children's and Household Tales
The Dick Van Dyke Show (clip)
Hairstyles
Afro
Bangs
Beehives
Big Hair
The Bun
The Horseshoe Flat top
The Duck's Ass (a.k.a The Ducktail)
Layered Hair
Low and tight
The Beatle Haircut
The Mop-Top
The Permanent Wave
The High Top Fade ÂI've had a number of these haircuts. Some are more flattering than others.Â
Conch (The Process)
The Elephant Trunk
Famous Hairstylists
Jose Hibert
Christoff
Allen Edwards
JC Berton
Vidal Sassoon
Hair Product Jingles
Dippity-Do
Royal Crown
Brill Cream (a little dab'll do ya)
Hair Club For Men
Blonde jokes ÂI don't condone these jokes, I just repeat them in the public interest
Hair Quotes
Shakespeare ÂThere's many a man who has more hair than wit.Â
Samuel Goodman Hoffenstein ÂBabies haven't any hair old men's head are just as bare from the cradle to the grave lies a haircut and a shave.Â
Albert Einstein ÂLong hair minimizes the need for barbers, socks can be done without, one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years, suspenders are superfluous. ÂI always knew I liked that guyÂ-Bob
Guest
Billy Vera
Ricky Gervais (talking about his hairstyles)
Hair Care Tips
Brush your hair before going to bed each night
Avoid brushing wet hair (it stretches and eventually breaks)
Trim you hair once every 7 weeks to avoid spilt ends
Never wash you hair with very hot or very cold water
Learn to relax, hair loss can be caused by stress
If you hair is oily cut down on fried food and fat
Drink plenty of Water
ÂThere's only one cure for gray hair; It was invented by a Frenchman. It's called the Guillotine. You may not like getting gray hair, but consider the alternativeÂ
-PG Wodehouse