Did he passed away? 😳

@@kimkaykae yes unfortunately he passed yesterday 😢

@@chesirecat17 He was one of my favorite singers and I'm truly heartbroken 💔😥 My mom and aunt knew him personally. He used to visit our island a lot and stayed at the hotel together with his wife, where my family worked. He took a liking to my aunt and told her he was already married but he would like to introduce her to his brother. Unfortunately, that didn't happen or he might have become my family through marriage. He was truly a nice and kind person according to my family. May his Soul Rest in Favor of God 🙏

Not a 90’s kid… but yes

Simpsons actually lol!

@@mariposamendez1987 muppets actually, for me atleast.

Technically, I was born in the 80s, but yes, very much so.

Who wud have even heard of beetlejuice? I am a big fan

❤

@SuziQ809. Phone Book...Encyclopedia...Thessaurus...Atlas...👌👏👏😉😁❤ He was a True Talent that We were priviledged to have been honoured by His music/acting and humanitarianism.❤❤ R.I.P. Mr Bellafonte. You will be missed.

The Kidiies of today don't know what a phone book is! Let alone good music!!!

It's probably sexist men😂

You’re not kidding! 😂 He is pure magick!

He brightened up my life

That should read"of social conscience"

he is in schomburg repository already ... and this is first time I'm realising he did more than one version of this song... prefer the live version he did in Japan

me too

you better belive it

Me too! I must've played Day-o a bazillion times! Drove my poor folks crazy I bet! He was SO good!

you irish? :)

Me too! My sisters and I would listen to his album all the time! Such joy 😊

morte like the grateful DUMB! Gottem!

Of course somebody recorded it first. Who knew 🤷🏽‍♀️🤦🏽‍♀️😎

Yeah, the most coverest cover band ever covered a Black artist. Wow. The jam, the blues, r&b, rock and roll... All from slavery days, so, $thanks for the contribution, eee, I guess...

@@jonathanfrancis109 The Dead from Jerry's love of music, played songs from so many eras. When John Scheer a concert promoter told Jerry that one of the original writers of a New Orleans song being played by the Dead was alive but not receiving any $$$, Jerry had the Garcia Band record another of her songs and gave all the $$$ to her. They also found out she didn't have a refrigerator, so they sent her a top of the line new one. When she got it she told people that " some Dead people" sent her a fridge!

@@rperkins723 good.

whos' otto

@@1cecode625 the bus driver on The Simpsons.

@@CaptainCretaceous91 😂😂

No...it's ALWAYS been true!

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Thanks man.

We slipped this one into our sets off and on for years. it was a favorite with the crowd. ...think caribbean waterfront bar sailors, locals and tourists... It worked! Fun to play.

Especially in that time!

You know its true

Greater wisdom was never sung lol

ah, yes it did. I knew that voice sounded familiar. also, Props to the Simpsons. Long Live Classic Simpsons.

Yes

The Grateful Dead brought me here

Hahahaha yeah it’s the segment of Treehouse of Horror 2 with the monkeys paw and they wish to be famous. I think after the Simpsons version of this song, that’s when Otto says “man this is gettin outta hand” about the Simpsons extreme fame. I’m an absolute Simpsons fanatic, it is the greatest TV show ever created. Treehouse of horror 2 was the first Treehouse of horror where they really hit it out of the park, the raven segment of the first one is just so awful that it tanks the whole episode, the first two segments are still pretty good though. But the Raven segment is not funny at all and it’s extremely boring, but that was back when the Simpsons was in its second season and the original writers of the show would use old references, this one was especially old, like 1800s era. The only good thing about the Raven segment was James Earl Jones as narrator, I believe he also played one of the Rigellians that comments that Homers “wife is quite a dish” because it really sounds like him. I love how the first few seasons of treehouse of horror would parody twilight zone episode, once again showing the original writers dated references but the twilight zone isn’t nearly as old as the Raven, and the twilight zone is also entertaining media unlike the Raven.

It would fit in well with the "Me Too" climate lol

I think it does have a few smart ass sexist-adjacent jokes in it, but the overall tone of the song is earnest, he genuinely means it when he say women are smart, but even in the joking tone of the song he takes to point out how society overall does look down on women's intelligence.

Megan L lol just watched it, classic madness, in a strange way I wish she was doing that to me

ADAM!!!

😂😂😂

Lol i found it!!! #searchingforBeetlejuicequotes

​@user-dp5md1bw4y I was about to say the same thing. Just rewatching it and heard this and was like "wait a minute, the Grateful Dead played this song", and had to look it up

@@Legacysong2012Robert Palmer also covered this song - with Little Feat backing him up ✌🏼