Song of the Day 6/26: Stubby Kaye and Peter Palmer, “The Country’s in the Very Best of Hands”

Today’s song comes from the 1959 Broadway musical “L’il Abner,” and it shows that hayseeds have been bitching about the same crap for generations. My memory was jogged last Sunday when I heard the tune on Geo. Stewart’s radio show “Crazy College,” which airs every Sunday at 6 5 p.m. on WVUD.

Last week’s episode was a timely encore edition of the Watergate special he did back in 1974, just before Nixon resigned (you can hear the whole thing at the link). It contains several spoken word records of the sort anti-commie war hawks liked to spout in the ’60s. Nowadays that market is satisfied by social media ranters, but back then they hired a voice actor and pressed the result into vinyl for posterity and profit.

The episode also features some rousing anti-communist singalongs pertinent to earlier times, like this anti-Khrushchev ditty credited to The American Lads:

There’s lots more at the link to remind you that self-styled conservatives have been slavishly bleating about freedom for a long time now.