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Convention report: Kennedys, Troggs, Jim Leach and Kermit the Frog

This blog is mostly going to ignore the Great Mile-High Non-News Event (as it will the Great Twin-Citian Non-News Event). There's other folks that can take care of that.

But listening to Teddy Kennedy talk like a Kennedy tonight reminded me of the 1967 novelty hit (it rose to No. 20 on the pop charts; I think I must have first heard it sometime in the late 1970s on Dr. Demento) in which a comedian trying to sound like Bobby Kennedy (and mostly succeeding) sang/spoke the Troggs' Wild Thing. After about 30 seconds of searching I found it on iTunes--the artist name is "Senator Bobby," in case you've got a spare 99 cents. And here's the YouTube version, although impersonator Bill Minkin doesn't nail the accent nearly as well here as on the single:

And while I'm at it with the convention YouTubing, here's Monday night speaker Jim Leach's voice double, singing a sad song:

I'm afraid I don't have any Michelle Obama song links, though. Do you?

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