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.
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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