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The song is musically a simple folk song based on banjo, accompanied by guitar, drums and fiddle. The lyrics describe a dead skunk in the middle of a road and the smell it produces for people as they drive by. Wainwright has said that the song came out of an actual accident involving a skunk, and that he wrote it in 15 minutes.
Wainwright is perhaps best known for the 1972 novelty song "Dead Skunk (in the Middle of the Road)" and for playing Captain Calvin Spalding (the "singing surgeon") on the American television show M*A*S*H. His appearances spanned three episodes in the show's third season (1974–1975). [6]
Album III is the third full-length album from Loudon Wainwright III.It was originally released in 1972 on Columbia Records. Album III would spawn Loudon Wainwright's most popular hit single, "Dead Skunk", one of the many 'novelty songs' sprinkled throughout Wainwright's career.
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Chart-Topping Crazy Hits – "Dead Skunk" (2004, Compass Productions / Warner Special products) Golden Slumbers: A Father's Love – "Daughter" (2005, Rendezvous Records) Roll With It: 16 Songs About Drinking, Dope, and Disorderly Conduct – "Drinking Song" (2008, Uncut Magazine)
The song reached No. 1 in the UK Singles Chart in June 1971 and stayed there for four more weeks. In all, Middle of the Road had five hit singles in the UK in 1971 and 1972. The band had especially strong success in Germany, where they achieved eleven Top 40 hits between 1971 and 1974.
"Middle of the Road" is a song by the Pretenders, released as the third single from the album Learning to Crawl. The single was released in the US in November 1983, then in the UK in February 1984. The song peaked at number 19 on the US pop singles chart [2] and number 2 on the US mainstream rock chart in January 1984, where it stayed for four ...
Harold "Lally" Stott Jr. (16 January 1945 – 6 June 1977) [1] was an English singer-songwriter and musician who wrote the song "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" which became a UK number one hit for the Scottish band Middle of the Road in 1971, [2] and charting at number 20 in the U.S., and number 41 in the UK the same year for Mac and Katie Kissoon.