Ape crazy
King Kong madness hits Welliwood tonight, here's some audio accompaniment...
"... In [the song] "King Kong," Jimmy Castor does very little beyond simply retell the story of the gargantuan gorilla. However, he does so over an infectuous disco rhythm, and, for unexplained reasons, refers to the monster as "kemo sabe" throughout the song (with a distinctive Jimmy Castor pronunciation: "koma sange.")
The song opens with a gong - presumably inspired by the one the Skull Islands natives used to offer their human sacrifice to Kong - and then Castor lets out with rapid-fire simian whooping noises. Castor then narrates his tale, excitably chanting such lines as "From everyone he knew he got respect / whoever failed to give it, he'd correct!" Underneath this, Castor has orchestrated a forceful, chunky funk line, featuring a wah-wah guitar and high-speed Latin drumming.
It's when Castor reaches the song's chorus -- the only sung part of the song -- that he best sums up King Kong: "He didn't dance or party / he spoke at times, but hardly," Castor tells us. "One woman heard his love call / but he was too big and too tall."
It will take Peter Jackson three hours to tell exactly that same tale..."
Link to MP3 of said tune.
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During the movie, when kong is first displayed at the theatre in New York if you look carefully you can see that the conductor of the orchestra is none other than Howard Shore, who as well know was fired...
so guess who the first person to get squashed is when Kong breaks free & jumps off the stage???
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