Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out)

LET IT OUT (LET IT ALL HANG OUT)

“Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out)” is a 1967 song by The Hombres. It is, according to AllMusic journalist Stewart Mason, a “deadpan southern-fried parody” of Bob Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues”. (More from Wikipedia)

One of the most unusual novelty songs has to be the 1967 hit “Let it Out (Let it All Hang Out)” by the Hombres. Here is a sample verse, chosen almost at random: “Saw a man walkin’ upside down / My T.V.’s on the blink / Made Galileo look like a Boy Scout / Sorry ’bout that, let it all hang out”. Not only that; but, as I originally put it in Wikipedia (naturally, the keepers of the Wikipedia universe took out some of the best wording): “The spoken-word introduction – ‘A preachment, dear friend, you are about to receive on John Barleycorn, Nicotine and the Temptations of Eve’ – goes all the way back to 1947, when it served to introduce a song that was every bit as strange for its era as this one was in 1967: ‘Cigareets, Whusky and Wild Wild Women’ by Red Ingle and His Natural Seven.”

(March 2013)