My brother and I loved this sorry growing up. We would listen to it every time we went camping. We eventually memorized it word for word. Thankfully we got to me meet Utah Phillips and we were able to recite it back to him. The smile on his face was priceless.
I miss KMET and the whole Southern California lifestyle. I remember at Huntington Beach, all the KMET listeners sat on one side of the beach, and all the KLOS listeners sat on the other side, and heaven help you if you sat in the wrong section. Little bit o'heaven.
Doctor D isn't on "radio," but he's doing weekly podcasts that you get each week, or pay for a subscription. Alive and kicking, I'm happy to say! www.drdemento.com/
I have about 20 hours of KFAT on cassette, tape. I still listen it, this was a favorite, so was hearing Ramblin’ Jack doing an advertisement for a hardware store.
In my Gilroy, Ca. years (and the Bay Area), KFAT radio out of Gilroy was the most irreverent music station I ever heard...and it was on always. Every now and then, they would, between some classic, funk, Janis or the Airplane, slip this great song in. I am honored that I still own the original Philo 33 stereo of Utah Phillips great train songs....and Moose Turd Pie. I've lost track of the times I have heard this song..and the laughs I have had with it! Thanks Utah!
@@CarltonHS ARE YOU KIDDING ME????? I had a Teac 7010GSL reel to reel and taped the whole thing...and in moves, divorce, etc. lost it 😢😢😢. I would give you contact info and pay you for copies!!!!! Serious! Better, if you could have done to CD’s I’d pay BIG!!!! Let me know! Thanks for contact!!!!!! 🤟🏄😎🇺🇸
@@imd1b4u Totally cool!!!!! Thanks for sharing the memories! I had a $10,000. system in ‘70….MacIntosh 2100, Teac 7010GSL, 4-Altec Voice of the Theater studio monitors, et. al. I had a full Teac tape of their last show and gave away like a dumb guy! I’d pay well to have it all back. In ‘58-‘59 in Eugene, Or. high school, first two concerts were Jerry Lee Lewis then a month later, Fats Domino! Then from ‘62-‘83 in the Bay Area, you name the greatest and I saw them. One way early morning, I walked up the alley stairs to the studio and met Gordy….handed him a quart jar sealed with the finest Indica bud on earth! When I got to my pickup, heard him say loudly….”Who was that masked man????!!!!!” Will never forget! Sat next to John Lee Hooker at way early breakfast twice at small Gilroy cafe!!!!! What days!!!!! Keep smilin’ . Still have 3 original new KFAT decals! 😎🤪🤟🥓🥓🥓🇺🇸
-I first heard Utah Phillips in 1974 at Expo 74 World's Fair in Spokane WA. I was hooked. We became friends during the fair while I was a Folklife Volunteer. I learned much from Utah and the rest of the people on-site. I maintained contact with Utah after the fair was over and was in contact with him for many years following. I was greatly saddened when he died and still feel a void in my life. I am so thankful we have his recordings and that I have my memories from so long ago.
Thank you Soo much for finding this and putting it online! I remembered listening to this as a kid on Dr. Demento. Was trying to recant this for my wife but was butchering it something fierce. Thanx
i used to record the shows on cassette. every night i made sure i had my head phones on to listen to the DOCTOR! always fun to listen. and yes it was KMET i was listening to. even had the radio station stickers.
I first heard this of the former KFAT "The Progressive Country Rock" radio station (94.5 FM?) that broadcast out of Hollister, CA back in the 1970's & 80's.
I saw Utah do this at McGill University in Montreal, around 1970. He had a few variations on this talking song. And the understanding that moose turds weren't like cow turds didn't stop the audience from being amused. As Utah once again said. Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story 🤠
My dad was a gandy dancer for a Wisconsin or U.P. lumber camp in 1926. He would use that story if I would whine. I never knew it was universal before "Utah".
I remember buying that album (vinyl) from Phillips one time back around 1980 or so when he played at the "coffeehouse" in the college where I was going at the time. Great stuff.
KY-102 FM in Kansas City, Missouri at mid-night. My brother and I would stay up on Sunday nights during our summer break to listen to Doctor Demento. We both loved this skit. Good times, and happy memories..
The first time I heard this I was sitting in the living room and my dad started to play this on the stereo, I shot soda out my nose and laughed so hard my stomach hurt,
We love this story... if whoever’s cooking dinner isn’t totally satisfied with their creation, and you didn’t have to make it, but you were hungry, and they ask how dinner was... we always say... ‘It’s Moose Sh*t Pie’... fed me, and I didn’t have to make it!!
Yeah! Dr. Demento! Most people outside of L.A. don't know that the good doctor did his show live on KMET! And it was a 4-hour show, not 2-hours! Also, it was a Top 10, not a "Funny 5"! I remember telling my cousin in Virginia that his show was live in L.A. on KMET, and she wouldn't believe me! LOL!
I never heard it on Dr Demento. I bought Utah on cd when it finally came out many years after I first heard him around 1970. Hewas a friend of Woody Guthries'.
My Dad listened to KFAT and thats where I heard it to. I have the last Day of KFAT on the air recorded. IT IS GREAT. Snow Mobile, Man in a Can, Eddie Amins Hot Tubs. KFATs last hours were unbelieveable. One day I will upload.
I used to hear this story on the WFMT radio show called The Midnight Special. Ever since then, the title of this story has been shorthand in my family for "you complain, you do it."
Thanks for uploading this. It was a standard around my parents' house. It's nice to hear the original without the folk process having happened to it since.
There is a guy at work we call Moose. So a few days ago out of the blue i thought of this song. So i told him about it. glad it was easy to find on UA-cam. hopefully he listens to this.
Genius joke/double-entendre: "I had a job installing electric wires to the Navajo outhouses; I was one of the first people to wire a head[/ahead] for a reservation [(indian/hotel room)]." 0:01
To me, the sleeper joke of this whole tale is that the name of that album is "Good, Though." Of course, when we bought the album when it was newly released, nobody knew what that phrase was about ... seemed like an innocuous enough title... until one listened to [I believe] Side-2-Track#1. And after that I have spent the last 40+years smiling every time I see that album cover or hear that phrase. Thank you Mr. Bruce! Everybody misses you.
@pretzeldog67 That's where I heard him, too! It was also MY Sunday night ritual! I'm so glad "Moose Turd Pie" made it to UA-cam. I'm certainly not surprised, considering everything that DOES make it! It's good thought!
First heard this on KFAT 94.5 FM Gilroy, California...the Garlic Capital of the World. Yes, "Thin may be in, but 'FATs" where it's at...KFAT, the wide spot on the dial." When radio was free of the PC BS.
First heard this one on WDET, public radio in Detroit. Unfortunately they went to pretty much all talk a few years back. I pretty much quit listening after that. They had a very eclectic mix and were just great. Heard many great tunes from all genres for the first time back when it was great.
This isn't a song, but it plays like one. Back in the very early 1980s KFAT radio out of Gilroy used to play this every night on the car radio. Whenever I reached my destination before the song's ending, "it's good though" I'd have to keep the car running till the ending. In 1983 some faceless corporation bought KFAT out then played corporate "product". And I never heard this song again till just now.
@pretzeldog67 up here in the Pacific Northwest we didn't have the good Dr., but we did have Mad Man Moskowitz and he always played this on his Music With Moskowitz show
@@lohollywood1f428 ok so the “Head” is a term for a bathroom, so he’s wiring a head for an native reservation, but “wiring ahead for a reservation” also means calling a restaurant ahead of time for a dinner reservation. It’s a real groaner.
I love how the audience starts laughing at his first joke (punchline: the first person to 'wire a head for a reservation'), and then they start groaning!
Also, moose turds are generally round pellets, not wafers. But, as they say, never let the truth get in the way of a good story. In my family nobody ever complained at the dinner table without following it by "Good though".
KFAT was my staple as night manager at The Broken Egg in Los Gatos,and again as kitchen mgr. at Mt.Madonna Inn in Watsonville.You could get it everywhere...remember the Ozone Ranger?
My brother and I loved this sorry growing up. We would listen to it every time we went camping. We eventually memorized it word for word. Thankfully we got to me meet Utah Phillips and we were able to recite it back to him. The smile on his face was priceless.
KMET back in "the day", Sunday nights, especially with Dr Demento topping off a great weekend....those were the days!
I miss KMET and the whole Southern California lifestyle. I remember at Huntington Beach, all the KMET listeners sat on one side of the beach, and all the KLOS listeners sat on the other side, and heaven help you if you sat in the wrong section. Little bit o'heaven.
kstewskis wish ill just go win. Wwwwww I love you so so good Willie was ton
Also a favorite of the late "Madman Moskowitz," a Seattle area icon who played comedy classics every week for many years.
A little bit o'heaven. KMET 7-11. This certainly brings back memories.
Yep, those were the days! (Now if those damn kids would just get off my lawn!)
I grew up in Fresno listening to KFAT. We could use some 70's today.
This story has the best punchline that I've ever heard
This has been a tale in my family for generations. Anytime someone complains about someone's cooking they will get the response of "Moose Turd Pie"
Same. My Grampa WAS a Gandy Dancer.
First time I heard this was on Dr. Demento. Miss those days.
Me too.
Doctor D isn't on "radio," but he's doing weekly podcasts that you get each week, or pay for a subscription. Alive and kicking, I'm happy to say!
www.drdemento.com/
Same here.
Long live the memory of KFAT. Spent many an hour drifting around on the South San Francisco Bay catching up with them in the day.
I have about 20 hours of KFAT on cassette, tape. I still listen it, this was a favorite, so was hearing Ramblin’ Jack doing an advertisement for a hardware store.
Thanks to my parents for raising me around great music. Love Utah Phillips.
In my Gilroy, Ca. years (and the Bay Area), KFAT radio out of Gilroy was the most irreverent music station I ever heard...and it was on always. Every now and then, they would, between some classic, funk, Janis or the Airplane, slip this great song in. I am honored that I still own the original Philo 33 stereo of Utah Phillips great train songs....and Moose Turd Pie. I've lost track of the times I have heard this song..and the laughs I have had with it! Thanks Utah!
I still have cassette tapes of their last day on the air. Great station!
@@CarltonHS ARE YOU KIDDING ME????? I had a Teac 7010GSL reel to reel and taped the whole thing...and in moves, divorce, etc. lost it 😢😢😢. I would give you contact info and pay you for copies!!!!! Serious! Better, if you could have done to CD’s I’d pay BIG!!!! Let me know! Thanks for contact!!!!!! 🤟🏄😎🇺🇸
@@imd1b4u Totally cool!!!!! Thanks for sharing the memories! I had a $10,000. system in ‘70….MacIntosh 2100, Teac 7010GSL, 4-Altec Voice of the Theater studio monitors, et. al. I had a full Teac tape of their last show and gave away like a dumb guy! I’d pay well to have it all back. In ‘58-‘59 in Eugene, Or. high school, first two concerts were Jerry Lee Lewis then a month later, Fats Domino! Then from ‘62-‘83 in the Bay Area, you name the greatest and I saw them. One way early morning, I walked up the alley stairs to the studio and met Gordy….handed him a quart jar sealed with the finest Indica bud on earth! When I got to my pickup, heard him say loudly….”Who was that masked man????!!!!!” Will never forget! Sat next to John Lee Hooker at way early breakfast twice at small Gilroy cafe!!!!! What days!!!!! Keep smilin’ . Still have 3 original new KFAT decals! 😎🤪🤟🥓🥓🥓🇺🇸
Absolutely remember this from the great Dr. D Show.
I heard this exact story as a kid in elementary school and I still share it to this day (I'm nearly 44).
Michael Steven Martin where did you grow up?
So did I. It was called Dr. Demento and the king biscuit flour hour....😀
-I first heard Utah Phillips in 1974 at Expo 74 World's Fair in Spokane WA. I was hooked. We became friends during the fair while I was a Folklife Volunteer. I learned much from Utah and the rest of the people on-site. I maintained contact with Utah after the fair was over and was in contact with him for many years following. I was greatly saddened when he died and still feel a void in my life. I am so thankful we have his recordings and that I have my memories from so long ago.
Always a supreme pleasure to hear this story!
the good old days we would record the Dr and send cassetes to my brother in north dakota.and yes it was KMET
Thank you Soo much for finding this and putting it online! I remembered listening to this as a kid on Dr. Demento. Was trying to recant this for my wife but was butchering it something fierce. Thanx
Very early 80's Sunday nights with Dr.Demento on KMET is where I heard this! 😂😂
"Good though" has become a running gag around our house whenever one comments about something tasting different.
+Keith Pixton In ours too!
I grew up with this same running gag.
David Safar same here!
Keith Pixton Us too.
In ours too! One of the funniest stories ever.
Ah, I'm glad I found this again, used to love it back on Dr. Demento. :)
i used to record the shows on cassette. every night i made sure i had my head phones on to listen to the DOCTOR! always fun to listen. and yes it was KMET i was listening to. even had the radio station stickers.
I first heard this of the former KFAT "The Progressive Country Rock" radio station (94.5 FM?) that broadcast out of Hollister, CA back in the 1970's & 80's.
Gilroy! Been in that studio with Gordie! Could sure use it these days! 🤟😜🇺🇸
KFAT kinda turned into KPIG, and the world was never the same again. RIP, KFAT. You are sorely missed!
My kids heard this and to this day, if they complain about food they've been given, they quickly add, "It's good, though!"
I saw Utah do this at McGill University in Montreal, around 1970. He had a few variations on this talking song. And the understanding that moose turds weren't like cow turds didn't stop the audience from being amused. As Utah once again said. Don't let the facts get in the way of a good story 🤠
I first heard this story as being about loggers in the north. Moose make more sense there. But I'm pretty sure no one tells it like Utah.
My dad was a gandy dancer for a Wisconsin or U.P. lumber camp in 1926. He would use that story if I would whine. I never knew it was universal before "Utah".
So glad this was what I listened to growing up ;)
I remember buying that album (vinyl) from Phillips one time back around 1980 or so when he played at the "coffeehouse" in the college where I was going at the time. Great stuff.
KY-102 FM in Kansas City, Missouri at mid-night. My brother and I would stay up on Sunday nights during our summer break to listen to Doctor Demento. We both loved this skit. Good times, and happy memories..
@Houdini774 Dr. Dememto, i used to listen to him EVERY sunday night on what once was 94.7 KMET, in Los Angeles. i was 13 yrs old, in 7th grade. 1980.
The first time I heard this I was sitting in the living room and my dad started to play this on the stereo, I shot soda out my nose and laughed so hard my stomach hurt,
We love this story... if whoever’s cooking dinner isn’t totally satisfied with their creation, and you didn’t have to make it, but you were hungry, and they ask how dinner was... we always say... ‘It’s Moose Sh*t Pie’... fed me, and I didn’t have to make it!!
Yeah! Dr. Demento! Most people outside of L.A. don't know that the good doctor did his show live on KMET! And it was a 4-hour show, not 2-hours! Also, it was a Top 10, not a "Funny 5"! I remember telling my cousin in Virginia that his show was live in L.A. on KMET, and she wouldn't believe me! LOL!
screwyootube1
Yep it did!!
Classic. I heard this on Dr Demento in the 80s
I never heard it on Dr Demento. I bought Utah on cd when it finally came out many years after I first heard him around 1970. Hewas a friend of Woody Guthries'.
My Dad listened to KFAT and thats where I heard it to. I have the last Day of KFAT on the air recorded. IT IS GREAT. Snow Mobile, Man in a Can, Eddie Amins Hot Tubs. KFATs last hours were unbelieveable. One day I will upload.
I like how the very first joke gets everyone laughing, and then they decide it was a bad joke, and change their laughs to "awwww..."
Thank you, this has been added to our playlists...
One of the funniest stories I have ever heard. We'll miss old Utah! alan parshall
This is a real good example of seniority or how hard it is to move ahead while working for the railroad...
@reperran Never heard that before! Thanks for sharing! It brings back memories from my childhood!!
Recorded at the Caffe Lena, Saratoga Springs, NY. I saw Bruce there MANY times!
That's where I first heard it! They played all the good ones!!
K FAT radio .....loved it so musc!
We miss you, Utah. We miss you.
a great story my dad played for me when i was young :)
I used to hear this story on the WFMT radio show called The Midnight Special. Ever since then, the title of this story has been shorthand in my family for "you complain, you do it."
Thanks for uploading this. It was a standard around my parents' house. It's nice to hear the original without the folk process having happened to it since.
"Well that was me, see?" XD
Some of you will remember this, the rest WILL remember forever. Listen all the way thru....
I remember KFAT I was a kind In felton and we were avid listeners!
There is a guy at work we call Moose. So a few days ago out of the blue i thought of this song. So i told him about it. glad it was easy to find on UA-cam. hopefully he listens to this.
I remember this on KMET LA.
absolutely great
seen utah numerous times, interesting fella...
Genius joke/double-entendre: "I had a job installing electric wires to the Navajo outhouses; I was one of the first people to wire a head[/ahead] for a reservation [(indian/hotel room)]." 0:01
Love, love, love!
Still a great classic.
To me, the sleeper joke of this whole tale is that the name of that album is "Good, Though." Of course, when we bought the album when it was newly released, nobody knew what that phrase was about ... seemed like an innocuous enough title... until one listened to [I believe] Side-2-Track#1. And after that I have spent the last 40+years smiling every time I see that album cover or hear that phrase. Thank you Mr. Bruce! Everybody misses you.
A completely random comment brought me here. And I'm happy it did.
@pretzeldog67 That's where I heard him, too! It was also MY Sunday night ritual! I'm so glad "Moose Turd Pie" made it to UA-cam. I'm certainly not surprised, considering everything that DOES make it!
It's good thought!
First heard this on KFAT 94.5 FM Gilroy, California...the Garlic Capital of the World. Yes, "Thin may be in, but 'FATs" where it's at...KFAT, the wide spot on the dial." When radio was free of the PC BS.
I heard it on KYLO outta Davis..I was stationed @ Travis and first house was Fair Francisco...(versus Vacamento)...1978-83
@Tsagiglalal And what great memories you have!! Thanks for watching my video, and thanks for sharing!!
First heard this one on WDET, public radio in Detroit. Unfortunately they went to pretty much all talk a few years back. I pretty much quit listening after that. They had a very eclectic mix and were just great. Heard many great tunes from all genres for the first time back when it was great.
Saw him do this song LIVE AT JUICY JOHN PINKS IN DEKALB ILLINOIS BACK IN 1970S...FUNNY GUY
This isn't a song, but it plays like one. Back in the very early 1980s KFAT radio out of Gilroy used to play this every night on the car radio. Whenever I reached my destination before the song's ending, "it's good though" I'd have to keep the car running till the ending. In 1983 some faceless corporation bought KFAT out then played corporate "product". And I never heard this song again till just now.
Now KFAT radio in Freedom, Ca 107.5 also on the web. They still pay it
Ray Gullings KPIG actually, founded by Laura Ellen of KFAT.
+Paul Hoffmann Used to play it on my radio show, too. And other Utah songs. The man has a way with words
Your radio station was also in CA?
Pittsburgh, on WYEP (public radio, of course). Folk, Irish, Old Time.
@pretzeldog67 up here in the Pacific Northwest we didn't have the good Dr., but we did have Mad Man Moskowitz and he always played this on his Music With Moskowitz show
I am in my 60's and I am saying"Lol!"
WFMT, Midnight Special plays this... :)
It took me 10 years to get the “wire ahead” joke
Jethroe Schiller what is it?
I guess I need another decade
@@lohollywood1f428 ok so the “Head” is a term for a bathroom, so he’s wiring a head for an native reservation, but “wiring ahead for a reservation” also means calling a restaurant ahead of time for a dinner reservation. It’s a real groaner.
@@cheezybrotherstudios ha, I would have never gotten that
I love how the audience starts laughing at his first joke (punchline: the first person to 'wire a head for a reservation'), and then they start groaning!
This track was recorded in 1974. Even in the politically incorrect 1970s, that was considered a joke of questionable taste. :-)
If any of the boy scouts complain about someone else's cooking , play them this.
I drop a "It's good though" about once a month when my old lady makes something weird for dinner
dr d the best moose turd pie was my favorite one of them all next to poisoning the piogons in the park
last "song" on side 2 of tape 2 on his 30th anniversery
Mah Gawd... thats moose turd pie!!!
"Mean Mr. Mooseturd..."
Also, moose turds are generally round pellets, not wafers. But, as they say, never let the truth get in the way of a good story. In my family nobody ever complained at the dinner table without following it by "Good though".
(Ba-ba-ba-bah) KMET
(Ba-ba-ba-bah) is the place to be
for good music,
on your, Radio-oh-oh!
I never knew moose lived in Las Vegas. Whodathunk?
Katrina Bertelsen, you know you love this shit
My GOD! THAT'S MOOSE TURD PIE! ... It's good though...
👌🏻
I first heard this on a vinyl LP. Great story, but moose aren't common in Nevada. He was a great American, and I am very sorry we lost him.
As Farley Mowat said, "never let the truth get in the way of a good story".
LOL ppl if you don't laugh at this story you soooooo don't get it
How did the giant dude know what moose turd pie tastes like?
Congratulations on catching the joke.
This was not the first time someone didn't want to be the cook.
I'd love to hear Norm McDonald tell this.
I would say like moose turd, lol.
@sandman3383 Hahahahahahaha! Yeah, you go first, and let me know. ;-)
meadow wafer lol
sandman3383, do you want to be the next cook?
it's good, though
remember KFAT ?
No
Yes! I probably still have tapes my dad made back in the 70s!
KFAT was my staple as night manager at The Broken Egg in Los Gatos,and again as kitchen mgr. at Mt.Madonna Inn in Watsonville.You could get it everywhere...remember the Ozone Ranger?
Fat was where it's at, FATHEAD FOREVER!!!!