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"I'm My Own Grandpa" (sometimes rendered as I'm My Own Grandpaw) is a novelty song written by Dwight Latham and Moe Jaffe, performed by Lonzo and Oscar in 1948, about a man who, through an unlikely (but legal) combination of marriages, becomes stepfather to his own stepmother — that is, tacitly dropping the "step-" modifiers, he becomes his own grandfather. A novelty song is a usually intentionally humorous song, usually in published or recorded form. ...
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Lonzo and Oscar is a music group consisting of Lloyd George and Rollin Sullivan, best known for being the first to perform the song Im my Own Grandpa. ...
See also: 1947 in country music, 1948 in music, other events of 1948, 1949 in country music, 1940s in music and the List of years in Country Music // Events May 15 - Billboard magazine begins a sales-based Best Selling Folk Retail Records chart, the magazines second chart to track...
In the song, the narrator marries a widow with an adult daughter. Subsequently, his father marries the widow's daughter. This creates a comic tangle of relationships by a mixture of blood and marriage; for example, the narrator's father is now also his step-son-in-law. The situation is complicated further when both couples have children.
A version by Guy Lombardo and The Guy Lombardo Trio became a hit in 1948. In the movie The Stupids, Stanley Stupid, portrayed by Tom Arnold, sings "I'm My Own Grandpa" while on a talk show about strange families. The song was performed by American country music singer Ray Stevens, and can be heard on his 1987 album Crackin' Up. Another American country singer, Willie Nelson performed the song on his 2001 album The Rainbow Connection. Guy Lombardo, photographed by William P. Gottlieb, 1947 Gaetano Alberto Guy Lombardo (June 19, 1902 – November 5, 1977) was a Canadian bandleader and violinist famous in the United States. ...
The Stupids is a 1996 comedy / adventure film directed by John Landis. ...
Thomas Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian. ...
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Crackin Up is an album by Ray Stevens. ...
Willie Nelson (born Willie Hugh Nelson, April 30, 1933) is an American entertainer and songwriter, born and raised in Abbott, Texas. ...
While not frequent, situations such as this do occur occasionally in life, the Bill Wyman/Mandy Smith affair (including his son and her mother) being one celebrity example. The situation is included in a set of problems written attributed to Alcuin of York; the question asks to describe the relationship of the children to each other. Alcuin's solution is that the children are uncle and nephew to each other; he does not draw attention to the grandparental relationship. Bill Wyman (born William George Perks on 24 October 1936) was the bassist for the English rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from its founding in 1962 until 1993. ...
Mandy Smith on the cover of her single Victim Of Pleasure (1988) Mandy Smith (born Mandy Louise Smith on 17 July 1970) is a British singer, model and actress. ...
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References in other media - In the Robert A. Heinlein story All You Zombies—, the bartender, a time-traveling hermaphrodite who is his/her own father and mother demands that this song, playing on the jukebox, be stopped.
- Sung on season one of The Muppet Show...episode starring Bruce Forsyth.
Robert Anson Heinlein (July 7, 1907 – May 8, 1988) was one of the most popular, influential, and controversial authors of hard science fiction. ...
All You Zombies— is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, written in a single day, July 11, 1958, and first published in the March 1959 issue of Fantasy and Science Fiction magazine. ...
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A Zodiac jukebox A jukebox is a partially automated music-playing device, usually a coin-operated machine, that can play specially selected songs from self-contained media. ...
Thomas Arnold (born March 6, 1959) is an American actor and comedian. ...
The Stupids is a 1996 comedy / adventure film directed by John Landis. ...
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Philip J. Fry is the protagonist of the animated television series Futurama and is voiced by Billy West. ...
The grandfather paradox is a paradox of time travel, first described by the science fiction writer René Barjavel in his 1943 book Le Voyageur Imprudent (The Imprudent Traveller).[1] The paradox is this: Suppose a man traveled back in time and killed his biological grandfather before the latter met the...
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