Hello, friends. My name is Rob Lambert and I live in Chicago, Edison Park specifically. Writing a bio is weird, so I am not going to do that yet, even though a short bio is supposed to go in this space :)
Jerry Seinfeld called me up and asked me to make it “Man of Steel” week at “104 Songs” which coincided nicely with the barrage of Spin Doctors requests from the fan club.
So here’s song #14 “Jimmy Olsen’s Blues” by the Spin Doctors (from their fine record Pocketful of Kryptonite, which produced a couple of songs that you may have heard once or twice in the 90′s such as the severely under-played Two Princes <– that’s a YouTube of the video, I dare you to watch it! )
New Recording Location … same mediocre performances!
The Flaming Lips’ “Waiting for Superman” from their perfect record The Soft Bulletin
I hope you are enthralled as my faithful dog, Pablo, is (seen sitting to
… the right of me). I made this black and white so you can imagine me in any color that you like!
#12 for “104 Songs” is Starman by David Bowie (of course, from the essential album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars ). (If you saw an earlier one that was a little different … yes, this is a re-do … tuned down a half-step so that I could sing it a *little* better!)
Original #3! (LYRICS BELOW) …this is sort of a backhanded compliment kind of thing … I would still choose you (if I didn’t know all the things that I now know about you!). Of course, this is a joke … only about 1 in 8 of these things are about Mary
This one is just a sketch and it needs some editing and something else, but I am kind of amused by Mary busting in on me at the beginning … so I’m going with this take for my song #11 …
LYRICS “I Would Still Choose You”
If all I knew
About you
Was what I knew
When I met you
I am sure
Yes I am sure
I would still
I would still choose you
Oh … when I met you …
I didn’t know about your chronic runny nose
And when I met you I had no clue
about your unsightly crooked toes
And when I met you
I’d never read your reams of embarrassing prose
Oh … when I met you …
I didn’t know about the wounds you were lickin’
And when I met you
I had no clue about the scabs you were pickin’
When I met you I knew not of
your irrational fear of chicken!
If all I knew
About you
Was what I knew
When I met you
I am sure
Yes I am sure
I would still
I would still choose you
Oh … when I met you …
I had no idea about your gambling debts
And I’d never ever ever
smelled your smelliest of smelly pets
And when I met you
I’d never ever seen a fit of your mild Tourettes
When I met you I didn’t know
about your various addictions
And also I did not know
about your federal convictions
And when I met you I had no clue
of your challenging dietary restrictions
If all I knew
About you
Was what I knew
When I met you
I am sure
Yes I am sure
I would still …
I would still choose you
When I met you I didn’t know about
all the stuff you’ve stolen
And I was not aware of how often
many of your parts are swollen
And I didn’t fully comprehend the extent
of your overactive colon
When I met you I didn’t know about
your constant malaise
And I didn’t know about your
radical right-wing ways
And when I met you I didn’t know about
obsessive Enya phases
If all I knew
About you
Was what I knew
When I met you
I am sure
Yes I am sure
I would still …
I would still choose you
Rufus Wainwright’s California (from the excellent Poses album) for “104 Songs” #9 … me (with a cold) singing self-consciously in a motel room in sunny California with nearby guests talking and mowers mowing and other people doing lifey things … just went with the first take of me playing this (’cause I was self-conscious!)
Fun little ditty from the Lemonheads’ Come on Feel the Lemonheads (by the way, that record isn’t essential, but It’s A Shame About Ray is a pop-rock jingly jangly masterpiece that you should own if you don’t already!)
Here’s song #7 for 104 Songs, an original ditty written from the perspective of Hampton the Husky, who knows he’s #2 in my heart to Pablo the mutt, and he’s trying to convince me to bump him up in the rankings. LYRICS BELOW…
Thanks to John McConda for the “Letter from Hampton” suggestion and thanks to Mary, she would probably get a 10% songwriting credit on this one!
LYRICS
Hey Rob, didja know?
Hey Rob, didja know?
I’m a husky!
Prettiest dog you’ve seen!
I’m a husky!
I’m better than a honey bun,
Prettier than Scarlett Johansson
’cause I’m a husky!
Hey Rob, didja know?
Hey Rob, didja know?
I’m a husky!
I’m a working dog!
I’m a husky!
Take me out and let me run!
I’m a working dog, I’m second-to-none!
I’m a husky!
I’m better than a foot massage
Prettier than girls on Entourage
Im tastier than blueberry pie
*way* more fun than a stick in the eye.
I’m a husky!
Hey Rob, didja know?
Hey Rob, didja know?
I’m a husky!
I’m softer than a velvet glove!
I’m a husky!
My fur makes me oh so proud!
I’m soft as silk or a puffy cloud,
‘Cause I’m a husky!
Hey Rob, didja know?
Hey Rob, didja know?
I’m a husky!
I’m better than a UFO!
I’m a husky!…
I’ve got flower-scented, number two,
I’d eat my poo, if I were you!
I’m a husky!
Have you seen my husky eyes?
Have you seen my husky thighs?
Have you seen my husky nose?
Have you seen my husky toes?
I’m a husky!
Hey Rob, do you know?
About the Iditarod?
Those are huskies
Running thru the snow
Those are huskies!
1000 miles, from Willow to Nome!
Sleepin in, cold eskimo domes!
those are huskies!
and I’m a husky!
Hey Rob, didja know? Frank Zappa has a song…
About huskies!
And Nanook, dontcha know?
And some huskies!
“WATCH OUT WHERE THE HUSKIES GO
AND DON’T YOU EAT THAT YELLOW SNOW”
Those are huskies!
And I’m a husky!
I’m better than a foot massage
Prettier than girls on Entourage
Im tastier than blueberry pie
*way* more fun than a stick in the eye.
I’m a husky!
With warm regards,
Hampton
For those not familiar with the Frank Zappa reference:
Donno why I sung this on an octave higher than Ween does on the record, but that’s the way it came out of me! I’ve had a few request that I keep these children friendly, I apologize if you feel that this doesn’t qualify to be so
Hello, friends. My name is Rob Lambert and I live in Chicago, 
Jerry Seinfeld called me up and asked me to make it “Man of Steel” week at “104 Songs” which coincided nicely with the barrage of Spin Doctors requests from the fan club.
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