Stupid question OTD 2/15

[hoyaguru]

The artist: Elvis Presley

The song: All Shook Up

The lyrics: "Well bless my soul, what's wrong with me,
I'm itching like a man on a fuzzy tree"

WTF is a fuzzy tree?

 

[Supertastic Fool]

maybe his weiner itches cause hes straddlin the fuzz on the tree?

 

[DougK62]

Thanks for getting that song stuck in my head, a$$hole. Elvis is such a wanker...

 

[lozina]

he had crabs. case closed.

edit: wait does that mean he had King Crabs? 😱

 

[lightpants]

Elvis did not write this or any of his other songs.


Written by songwriter Otis Blackwell on a dare. One of the owners of Shalimar Music (Blackwell's publishing company) wandered into Blackwell's office as he was struggling to create a follow-up to "Don't Be Cruel." As Al Stanton approached Blackwell, Stanton was shaking a bottle of Pepsi. Stanton said to Blackwell, "I've got an idea. Why don't you write a song called 'All Shook Up'?" According to Blackwell, the song was finished in a couple of days.

IMHO it was just put there for the sake of rhyme.

 

[Fritzo]

Dogwood trees get fuzzy, and they make you itch and sneeze.

"Songwriter Otis Blackwell ("Don't Be Cruel," Great Balls of Fire," "Return to Sender," "Fever") remembers the genesis of one song: "A fellow that used to work in the Shalamar (Music) office came in with this Coca Cola bottle. He was told I could write a song about anything. So he made me a bet. (According to lore, he began shaking the coke bottle and letting the fizzing soda squirt all over the wall, betting Otis that he couldn't write a song about the fizzing coke. Otis took the bet and retired to his writer's cell.) I didn't realize what the hell I was doing. I went in and wrote 'All Shook Up.' Then they just shot it over to Elvis and it really worked!" "