And 'Tick-Tock Sick' tells us that he was already feeling the crunch just six years into his career. Jim Henson accomplished an amazing amount in his life, but given the large number of files on unrealized projects that are in the archives, he clearly didn't have enough time to do all that he wanted to do. The theme of the song, the relentlessness of time, was later explored by Jim in his 1964 short film, TimePiece, and touched on again with the thirteen hour clock in Labyrinth. It is not clear that 'Tick-Tock Sick' was used for anything in particular, but it sounds like it may have accompanied puppet performances on Sam and Friends or a variety show. At the time Jim made the recording, he was living in Washington, DC and performing Sam and Friends on local television as well as making appearances on variety shows and making commercials for various products. The main song was called 'Tick-Tock Sick" and the flip side had a song called 'The Countryside'.īoth were written by Jim, and we have his typed lyrics for 'Tick-Tock Sick' in the archives. For entertainment purposes only.Lyrics:Wake up in the morning feeling like P Diddy(Hey, what up girl)Grab my glasses, Im. The 45RPM record was recorded under the Signature label ('A product of Hanover-Signature Record Corp.'). No alarm clock disturbs any sleep of mine.Īll rejuvinated and I use the sun dial to tell the time.Īlso, here's a little info about the song from a "Sam and Friends" fan site as written in an e-mail from Karen Falk, Archivist for The Jim Henson Company. Grind the wrist watch into the floor boards, Into the garbage can with the stop watch! Out the window with this object of the devil! With the wicked interjection of the gadget's scrambled version Discover more music, concerts, videos, and pictures with the largest catalogue online at Last.fm. That confounded my affection for the sound of pleasant ticking Of the evil-minded genius who invented the contraption Not a shadow of suspicion of the underhanded scheming Only listenin' to the syncopated moments of the calculated Never suspectin' of the end that was comin' In the wee small hours I fell in the sack to the lullaby of the. With the ticks and the tocks and the rhythm that rocks. Went to the store where they sell the clocks That clock's got rhythm with a beat that swings. I put a question mark next to the line that I'm not 100% sure about.
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