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At Play With the Playmates, 1958
Written by Carl Cicchetti and Donald Claps
The Playmates were a novelty vocal group originally called the Nitwits, which tells you how seriously to take them, I guess. It's a story song à la Chuck Berry, though with less panache, bravado, or electric guitar. Starting out slowly and building to a frenetic pace (with their voices and the sound effects sounding like the tape was sped up) by the end, it tells of an inadvertent race between the narrator's Cadillac and a Nash Rambler. The Rambler keeps tailing the Caddy no matter how fast he drives; I expected the other guy to be tied to the Caddy at the end, but the punchline is sillier than that.
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