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"Well we are big rock singers, we've got golden fingers
And we're loved everywhere we go
We sing about beauty and we sing about truth
At ten thousand dollars a show
We take all kind of pills to give us all kind of thrills
But the thrill we've never known
Is the thrill that'll get you when you get your picture
On the cover of the Rolling Stone"

-- Shel Silverstein, "On the Cover of Rolling Stone", recorded by Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show (who did get on the cover of Rolling Stone a few months later) on the album Sloppy Seconds (trivia cribbed from songfacts.com)

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I had NO idea that Shel Silverstein wrote that song!

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Until a few days ago, when I looked it up while editing this QotD entry in the queue, I didn't either! :-) Knowing that kind of adds an extra layer of nifty on top of a song I already thought was cool to begin with. 1973-03-29 is the date listed in the calendar file I was looking at for when the relevant issue of Rolling Stone came out.

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Uncle Shelby wrote a lot of songs many people don't know he did, only some of which were for children: "Sarah Cynthia Sylvia Stout (Would Not Take the Garbage Out)," "A Boy Named Sue" (which Johnny Cash famously covered), "Stacey Brown Got Two," "The Smoke-Off," "It Does Not Pay to Be Too Hip," "I Got Stoned And I Missed It" and "The Diet Song" are among the ones I like. Many of them can be downloaded from iTunes or other online sources.

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Does it seem to anyone else that there seem to be a lot of '70s songs about being in rock bands?

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