{"id":7884,"date":"2020-05-19T12:34:39","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T17:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/?p=7884"},"modified":"2020-05-19T14:53:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-19T19:53:59","slug":"behind-the-song-tuesday-nights-at-eight-for-red-skelton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelgaither.com\/home\/behind-the-song-tuesday-nights-at-eight-for-red-skelton\/","title":{"rendered":"Behind the Song: “Tuesday Nights at Eight (for Red Skelton)”"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Aside from the obvious weirdness from being sheltered in place the last six…er, eight weeks (but who’s counting, right?), there have been some little slivers of a silver lining. I’ve been having a lot of fun doing a weekly livestream on Facebook – Saturdays at 4:00pm PT<\/a> . Besides getting the opportunity to play for new people AND raise a little money for The Teen Kitchen Project<\/a> – it’s given me a nice chance to dust off some old songs I haven’t played in ages. Case in point: “Tuesday Nights at Eight,”<\/a> my tribute to the comedy legend Red Skelton<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last week, we lost two other comedy legends: Jerry Stiller<\/a> and Fred Willard<\/a>. I decided to kick off last weekend’s show by talking about them, and then segueing into this tune that saluted some comedy stars from a few decades back.\u00a0The CD track (below) appears on my last full CD, “Hey Karma”<\/a>. It’s a sparse tune, just me, my ukulele, and some old TV sound effects for atmosphere to kick off the song.<\/p>\n