We need a new 'Alabama' theme song. Lnyrd Skynyrd is so offensive!

[yallerdawg]

[pangaia]

1. I dont find it offensive.

[yallerdawg]

2. You would if you knew what...

a "swamp ass" is!

[SCantiGOP]

16. "In Birmingham they love the Governor....

....Watergate does not bother me...."

Nah, not at all offensive.

[pangaia]

17. The lyrics are, in my opinion and that of many others,

full of, subtlty, sarcasm, irony.....

[Floyd R. Turbo]

3. Okay!

[yallerdawg]

4. Very fitting!

Tide. Number one.

It works!

And we could pass a law making sure EVERYONE has to stand whenever it is played!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. You telling me that there aint one already!

Damn hell, what kinda godless country we living in?

[hlthe2b]

5. Well, in light of yesterday's election results, I don't want to offend by suggesting the obvious

(which, had Moore been elected, surely would have been the appropriate song):

[yallerdawg]

6. Oh, no, not him!

We don't need him around anyhow!

[hlthe2b]

7. !! (the youngsters don't remember this.. you should elaborate... (or I will)

The release of Neil Young's "Southern Man" incited a once intense Neil Young v. Lynard Skynard feud re: its stinging rebuke of racism in the American South. (The song makes overt references to slavery and the Ku Klux Klan) This telling suggests the feud was a lot more short-lived and less embittered than I'd thought and they all came to terms before the tragic plane crash that killed Ronnie Van Zandt in 1977:

Lynyrd Skynyrd wrote "Sweet Home Alabama" as a response to this song. Young is mentioned in the line "I hope Neil Young will remember, a Southern man don't need him around anyhow." Lynyrd Skynyrd were big fans of Young. "Sweet Home Alabama" was meant as a good-natured answer to this, explaining the good things about Alabama. Skynyrd lead singer Ronnie Van Zandt often wore Neil Young T-shirts while performing.
Young was quite happy with "Sweet Home Alabama." He said, "They play like they mean it, I'm proud to have my name in a song like theirs."

After the release of "Sweet Home Alabama," Neil Young wrote several songs for Lynyrd Skynyrd as means of reconciliation, including his eventual standby "Powderfinger." However, the band had their infamous plane crash before they could use the songs, and Young ended up keeping them for himself.

[yallerdawg]

11. Not to change the subject, but....

back in winter '79or '80 I believe, I rolled into Miami and saw a 3-day free outdoor concert headlined by Neil Young, a "Tribute to Lynyrd Skynrd."

Over 500,000 attended, bigger than Woodstock!

No movie, so no one remembers.

[hlthe2b]

13. Wow... what a phenomenal memory for you. So sad that it wasn't captured on video.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

8. Ummm, maybe not so new:

And for the Al Jolson fans here:

"Alabamy Bound" is a Tin Pan Alley tune written in 1924, with music by Ray Henderson and words by Buddy DeSylva and Bud Green. This was the first collaboration between DeSylva and Henderson and it was interpolated into the Broadway show Kid Boots. Successful recordings of it in 1925 were by Blossom Seeley and Isham Jones.

[yallerdawg]

9. That made me laugh!

At least he's not an albino. Too obvious?

[mahatmakanejeeves]

10. Bonus Al Jolson:

[yallerdawg]

12. Jeez.

We're trying to elevate our musical heritage here!

Not go full Republican!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

14. Al Jolson was great. Wait a bit; there's a big Al Jolson fan at DU.

The problem is, it's hard to find an Al Jolson video that's going to pass muster with modern sensibilities.

Well, it was offensive back then too, but people watched it.

Here's a couple: