🔥 Wondet if anyone still remembers the 
“The Gong Show”
I was working in a northern 🇨🇦 Lumber Camp
after 12 hours of chopping wood we all watched The Gong Show on a small B/W TV that picked up a northern Quebec TV station that was airing this show
Thanks for the memories 
big burly Northern Canadians 🇨🇦 watching this weird show 😂😂

Hey, caught your appearance on the Eclectic Collective's AI song, and then instantly recognized your voice and style on your home page here. Dig your sense of humor and fun approach!

A fun blast from the past and an interesting reflection into the future. Cool song!

Great tribute Joe! Chuck was one of a kind and wrote the hit song "Palisades Park" for Freddy boom boom Cannon.

really hilarious and intelligent story, Joe...high time ..somebody started a new version of this epic TV show..I agree with Frank Zappa " Does Humor Belong to Music"..yes.. at least on the cloud!

Cover art: Publicity photo of American television host, Chuck Barris promoting the June 14, 1976 premiere of the NBC reality talent show The Gong Show.

The world can be an unpredictable dog eat dog kind of place full of all sorts of all sorts of people who can get under your skin
Sometimes you just have to smile and nod and keep your feelings to yourself and try your best just to just to take it on the chin
And there’s people who seem friendly, but they’ve got a knife in their hand behind their back
And they’re waiting for the right moment to attack
There used to be a TV show, where you could dance or sing a song
and if the judges didn’t like your performance, they would strike a gong
It sure would be nice if you could walk around with a mallet in your hand every day
And you had access to a gong you that you could strike and make annoying people go away
It sure would be nice to have that kind of power
Amateur performers of dubious talent, trying to win a small prize
Five hundred sixteen dollars and 32 cents, You could see the hunger in their eyes
Chuck Barris hosting on that Burbank stage, he knew the people competing were toast
But he smiled and tried to encourage them and be a good friendly host
The dinosaurs ruled the earth for millions of years until the asteroid struck
it was like a giant cosmic gong
Mammals arose from the rubble and now humans rule the earth, but we haven’t been around for nearly so long
We’re all just making it up as we go along hoping somebody doesn’t strike that gong
It sure would be nice if real life was more like that old Gong Show
And you could get a large gong attach it to wheels and take it wherever you go
You could follow in the footsteps of Chuck Barris and be your own gong show emcee
And whenever people start to annoy you -you could strike that gong and make them flee
He wrote a book called Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Chuck Barris was one of a kind.

The Gong Show

Songs with a twinge of humor (and some a bit more serious).  
I do not use AI to create my songs. 
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