Re: 'GREAT SHAKES'

[Mike.Westbrook@hcsd.hac.com (Mike Westbrook)]

} Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 09:23:33 +1000
} From: jasonp@ozemail.com.au (Jason Paris)
} Subject: 'GREAT SHAKES'
} 
} Hi!  I got a msg the other day from a fellow 'Ossie' who wanted to trade.
} It got me thinking about a blue-vinyl, 7" E.P. I have that has a Who
} song called 'Great Shakes'.
} 
} It's a typical 'Coke-after-Coke'-type jingly thing, and it's fairly dominated
} by Keith (he actually performs some advertising monologue in the middle of it).
} 
} Has anyone ever heard of this?  And from what project does it originate?
} 


Not having heard this EP, I would still guess that this refers to the late-
60s/early-70s "do-it-yourself" milkshake (for Young People), which involved
mixing the ingredients with milk (I suppose--I never tried it) by shaking it
up in its container, which was essentially a plastic glass with a lid.  The
name of the product was, of course, "Great Shakes", and came complete with a
commercial featuring Happy Young People shaking their ingredients to that
California Surfin' Sound (tm), with lyrics exhorting, "So if you want your
own soda fountain, now, Go to the store and get, Great Shakes!"  Knowing of
Keith's predilection...predelic...taste for surfin' music, and given his sense
of humour and the hokiness of the commercial, I wouldn't be at all surprised
if this is what is on the EP.  (Actually, the vocals in the commercial were
pretty good surfin' harmonies; they prompted my mother to ask if that was the
Beach Boys doing the commercial.)

> Mike <

              "Thinks:  'Get real, Mum!'  Says: 'No, I doubt it.'"