Music And Records: Jud Strunk
I’m relieved to learn that Jud Strunk was not a stage name conjured up by some record company doofuss in a windowless office somewhere in the bowels of Nashville.
Jud (nee Justin) Strunk was his real name and he was actually quite famous in his time. He wrote a number of humorous country hits, toured with Andy Griffith, appeared on the Tonight Show and is still revered by Demento-ites for his novelty song, The Biggest Parakeets In Town.
This little nugget didn’t fall to far from Daisy A Day, the sentimental dose of saccharin for which this was the B-side.
Straight from the Bobby Goldsboro Watching Scotty Grow Songbook, this is the sort of light instrumental pop that claimed the hearts of plenty of prepubescent girls just a few years before they jumped into their Jordache and starting growing parakeets of their own.
