[Sca-cooks] Re: Chicken hearts

[Vincent Cuenca]

>I find it significant that Fat Albert seems not to be mentioned at
 >all as a childhood companion of BC in the earlier albums, while Old
 >Weird Harold, and Old Cryin' Charlie, are. I can't decide which would
 >be worse: to have any or all of them be fictional characters, or all
 >of them based on real people. My personal favorite is [I think it
 >was] Orlan, the boy who, on his 11th birthday, was given two dollars
 >(one for each one) and took BC to the amusement park, and arrived, in
 >celebration, wearing all his clothes backwards, leading to
 >interesting contretemps on the roller coaster...

Aha! Roland Johnson!  The kid who keeps soap chips in his pocket! The kid
who can turn his eyelids inside out! The kid who stands up at the top of the
roller coaster and says "HEY MAN! WE DONE RUN OUTTA TRACKS!"

There's another Fat Albert routine on that same album.  They're all older by
now, 16 or so, and starting to drive.  Apparently Fat Albert customizes a
'43 De Soto by installing a Cessna airplane engine.  He and Bill go riding
around in leather flight helmets and goggles.  Girls have to make
reservations to get in that car, even though it only goes 30 MPH.

(Incidentally, Bill Cosby does some of his best drug humor and adolescence
routines on that album. Pity I can't remember the title.)


Vincent
(Vicente has no clue who Bill Cosby is, but does enjoy Ausias March)



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