Larry Across The Mersey
Larry Miller Show
Jeff Fox
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 June 2016
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
Would God let Larry cheat on his wife with Marilyn Monroe? Why did they never build a bridge across the Mersey? And do some like it hot? Plus tales of walking across the Brooklyn Bridge with his comedian buddies. http://LarryMillerShow.com
Quote of the week: "How do you like that, hayseed?"
Producer: Colonel Jeff Fox
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| 0:00.0 | And now live from Level 5 productions on the Island of Mileronia, it's the Larry Miller Show. The Good evening Mr. and Mrs. and Mrs. America and everyone who loves to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. And I do. I love to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge. |
| 0:39.0 | Hi folks. |
| 0:40.0 | Welcome back to the Larry Miller show. I'm Larry Miller, but in a way aren't we all? |
| 0:45.0 | And oh boy, it's a beautiful day here on Milleronia. |
| 0:49.0 | And oh, it just makes me so happy to hear that music is just a, well, the cherry on top, it always is. |
| 0:56.2 | And of course, by the way, that's the Mark Levin Orchestra and the Helen Amour dancers featuring Boy Tenor |
| 1:03.7 | Daniel's asking the musical question, why did they never build a bridge |
| 1:08.0 | across the river Mersey? |
| 1:10.3 | Well, that's a heck of a question, Frank. It really is. And in fact, it's such a good question that when I first heard it, I said, I turned to the Colonel and I said, what the river Mersey and he said gee I was hoping you'd know and neither of us knew but we like the question a lot and then we looked it up it seemed to me and it seemed to Colonel Jeff and maybe it seems this way to you |
| 1:36.1 | that it sounded like it could be a lyric from a song or something from another poem somewhere but a song. |
| 1:44.0 | Turns out it is. |
| 1:46.0 | It's a very well known and deservedly so. |
| 1:50.0 | It's a famous song by Jerry and the Pacemakers from the 60s and it's well of the river Mersey is a |
| 2:00.5 | It's in England and there's a ferry across it and it was also by the way a musical film featuring |
| 2:08.8 | Not surprisingly Jerry and the pacemakers. And you know what though? |
| 2:13.2 | The Colonel brought it up on tape. |
| 2:15.6 | He bought that song up. |
| 2:16.8 | He found a recording of it and he played it. |
| 2:19.3 | And suddenly, he and I both knew it. |
| 2:21.6 | It's a terrific song and that that chorus part or the second part of the verse goes so |
| 2:28.8 | Ferry cross the mersey because this lands the place I love and here's where I'll stay. |
| 2:38.0 | And I think you ought to be recognizing that song just by me singing the title chorus or you've all turned off. |
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