It’s Wednesday, which means it’s time to pull out another album from the Way Out Junk archives. Today’s music selection from Fat Albert and the Junkyard Band is called Rock ‘n’ Roll Disco, which is rather odd since their music is really neither rock ‘n’ roll nor disco. However, there are a few different styles on display here, along with the usual pop/R & B-ish vibe you’d expect.
Our first song is a doo-wop number called “Mr. Shakespeare.” In it, Fat Albert sings to the Bard himself, asking for help with his girl troubles because someone plays a better Romeo to her Juliet.
Next we have “Skippin’ Out.” Here he sings about skipping away because it’s so nice outside. (I assume he’s talking about skipping school here.) In the second verse he sings about them heading out down the highway in his car. Wait a minute. Fat Albert has a car? Could Fat Albert even fit in a car?
The next song, called “She Doesn’t See Me,” has a nice Latin sort of beat to it. In this song he laments the fact that even with glasses, bifocals, and binoculars she doesn’t see him. (I’m resisting the urge to ask, “How could she miss him?”)
Fat Albert – She Doesn’t See Me
Fat Albert and the gang go country in “I Wanna Be a Cowboy” (not to be confused with the Boys Don’t Cry hit). This is the only song where we get an actual “Hey Hey Hey!”
Fat Albert – I Wanna Be a Cowboy
Finally, what would a Fat Albert album be without a song about “Friends”? Well, it wouldn’t be this one!
This was more than I originally intended to include in this post, but I liked the variety of the songs included here. If you want to hear the rest of this album, you can download it here!
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The Duchess (2008, Paramount)
A decade ago this past summer, 
But 10 Things was much more than a showcase for Ledger and Julia Stiles, the co-star who also used the film as a springboard to greater fame and fortune. For all the contrivances of its Shakespearean plot, the film is among the most sensible and believable of the teen genre, full of warm and funny performances from a terrific supporting cast. Grown-ups Larry Miller and Alison Janney get some of the best moments, happily – particularly Miller as an Ob-Gyn so paranoid about his daughters dating that he forces them to “wear the [empathy] belly around the living room” before they leave the house. “Kissing? That’s what you think happens [at the prom]? I’ve got news for you. Kissing isn’t what keeps me up to my elbows in placenta all day long.”