Here in Louisiana, there isn't a wedding reception or party after the event that doesn't play the song. I knew every word literally as a 5-year-old. No joke, EVERY WEDDING I'VE BEEN TO IN THIS STATE, and if anyone else can confirm please do lol.
The chord progression in Strokin' has an interesting similarity to Franklin's Tower by The Grateful Dead. They should have just told the audience to all get their phones out, queue up the video, and play it at the same time. It would be ineffective, but a really funny bit.
I love this bit and it drives me crazy. I think dan nails it when he said it means being sensual. Hes stroking his hips. The stroke motion refers to the pelvis. Lol. You can thrust your pelvis left and right, as you might when trying to satisfy a lady. You can also thrust to or (toward) your lady. The thrusting can be long and fast or short and soft. It's all about a sensual hip motion. At the end the woman is offering her rear end because shes unsatisfied with the lack of sensuality. Hes stroking too fast. It makes perfect sense
How do four different men all misshear the same lyric in the same way? "If my stuff AIN'T tight enough," not "TOO tight." So weird, how did ALL of them miss that?
11:52 "It's in (the back seat of a car), not on" ...What? Of course it's on, he's asking if you've made love ON the seat of a car. As in laying ON TOP of the seats. You're not INSIDE the seats, you're not unzipping the seats and climbing inside with the stuffing and doing it in there, are you? I think he's confusing "the back seat" of a car with "The back" of a car. But the lyric was "on the back seat of a car", it's a completely normal sentence, he means laying on the back seats. Not in the back of a station wagon or a van or something, which I think is what Dan's thinking.
My dad was Clarence Carter's driver once. He was blind and kept joking about taking the wheel of the car
This has been one of my top lol Harmontown bits. :)
Yeah this is absolute gold
I bet this song was awesome in live performances, with people shouting out "YEEEAH!" in response to the situations in the verses
Lol I've always loved this song. They used to play it on the radio in the 90s.
And at EVERY Cosmic Bowling night in EVERY bowling alley.
Thank you for uploading this and introducing me to this song.
No problem! I for one am glad to share the song Strokin' by Clarence Carter with more people.
Jeff is so drunk, hahaha
I JUST heard this song the other day and I had forgotten it existed for over a decade. It's such an awesome song.
Here in Louisiana, there isn't a wedding reception or party after the event that doesn't play the song. I knew every word literally as a 5-year-old. No joke, EVERY WEDDING I'VE BEEN TO IN THIS STATE, and if anyone else can confirm please do lol.
It's actually a line dance also so it's not just a song that plays where people look confused they all go on the floor and dance in unison.
"what PAGAN shit? talking about MOON fuckin'?"
It’s a good thing there is no permanent record of them playing this song live like they were talking about
They were worried about having to pay Clarence Carter, either they stopped giving a fuck and just said upload it as is or paid him
The North-South Strokers sound like an incredible team
The chord progression in Strokin' has an interesting similarity to Franklin's Tower by The Grateful Dead.
They should have just told the audience to all get their phones out, queue up the video, and play it at the same time. It would be ineffective, but a really funny bit.
"Aggressively more and more common"
This is hysterical
This was half a fucking hour
Try Die Hard then Speed then Air Force One then Die Hard: With A Vengeance then White House Down . Not all the best Die Hards are Die Hards.
I love this bit and it drives me crazy. I think dan nails it when he said it means being sensual. Hes stroking his hips. The stroke motion refers to the pelvis. Lol.
You can thrust your pelvis left and right, as you might when trying to satisfy a lady. You can also thrust to or (toward) your lady.
The thrusting can be long and fast or short and soft. It's all about a sensual hip motion. At the end the woman is offering her rear end because shes unsatisfied with the lack of sensuality. Hes stroking too fast. It makes perfect sense
How do four different men all misshear the same lyric in the same way? "If my stuff AIN'T tight enough," not "TOO tight." So weird, how did ALL of them miss that?
They do drink a lot
yeah i can't remember another time that's made me want to literally reach into the screen and tell a show their mistake lmao
@@SolaceMusic Same, hahah. There's a lot of Harmontown moments like that actually
11:52 "It's in (the back seat of a car), not on"
...What? Of course it's on, he's asking if you've made love ON the seat of a car. As in laying ON TOP of the seats. You're not INSIDE the seats, you're not unzipping the seats and climbing inside with the stuffing and doing it in there, are you?
I think he's confusing "the back seat" of a car with "The back" of a car. But the lyric was "on the back seat of a car", it's a completely normal sentence, he means laying on the back seats. Not in the back of a station wagon or a van or something, which I think is what Dan's thinking.
This might be the most horrible song ever