![]() ![]() I began at age 4 in 1941 singing Mairzy Doats and Hut Sut Ralston during Kids’ Talent Nite….at a Roller Derby Contest in NewOrleans…I won 2 dollars and my mother kept the money…….next BIG GIG was 1946….I was 9…and played The Prickly Prince in a play by the same name presented by students of the Mathilda P. ![]() ![]() to answer your general questio n a properly sho busy manner. I’ll have some questions ready for you real soon!īR: all right…have you run into that same thing? people confusing YOUR Tusk with that “Purses for sale” ’s to comical and can be.and WILL be used for fodder in my often ongoing prayer.Our FodderīR: what the phuck kind of question is that? can you be more specific? tell em what you know about me….have you seen the e-bay store my favorite ICONcubine has set up to make some bread so she doesn’t have to feed me working a thousand hours a week at the San Francisco gay Childrens’ Library ?…o.k. I was wondering if you’d like to talk to me about your life and career and work at some point for an article.īR: I just checked out there was a website selling me purses and pocketbooks? Is that the right Tusk? My name’s Nate Waggoner and I write for a website called The Tusk. Beyond that, I’ll let the interview speak for itself. He also gets pretty abstract and confusing at times, and he expresses some views that are definitely not my own– or at least I think he expresses them? He gets a lot more clear when he starts talking about Paul Williams ripping him off. There’s clearly a certain kind of genius at work. In this interview, he makes puns and allusions constantly and flows from one topic to another in the same wild way that he does in his best songs. He wrote the lovely “ Fill Your Heart,” which David Bowie covered on his album Hunky Dory, and which likely inspired the album’s airy, gentle tone. I first found out about Biff Rose a few years ago when my friend opened for him at a house show in Richmond, VA. wikipedia-en:The_Thorn_in_Mrs.An Interview with Biff Rose, Truly Weird Part of Music History.wikipedia-en:The_Thorn_in_Mrs._Rose's_Side.wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/The_Thorn_in_Mrs._Rose's_Side.jpg.It was also released as the B-side of Tiny Tim's 1968 hit, "Tiptoe Through the Tulips". Tiny Tim released "Fill Your Heart" on his album, God Bless Tiny Tim, six months before Biff Rose's own version. The two met while working together on a television comedy show. "Fill Your Heart" was written together with American composer, singer-songwriter, and actor Paul Williams. It was released in 1968 on Bill Cosby's music label Tetragrammaton Records. Rose's Side is the debut album by Biff Rose. wiki-commons:Special:FilePath/The_Thorn_in_Mrs._Rose's_Side.jpg?width=300. ![]() He also covered the title track of Rose's 1969 album, "Children of Light", during live concerts. Bowie also covered "Buzz the Fuzz" in his live set in 1970-71. It was in his live sets by early 1970 and it led off the second side of his 1971 album, Hunky Dory. David Bowie took a liking to “Fill Your Heart”. ![]()
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