This album came out when I was twelve years old. One of my summer camp counselors used to play “Ballad Of A Dog Named Stains” on a regular basis. Two or three years later I remember hearing it on the Howard Stern show during a morning drive to school, and I was delighted at the mainstream acceptance of such a hilarious song. Of course, I always thought the song was written in earnest. I never heard any of the other cuts off this album, so for the last thirteen years I assumed it was a simple country song that contained a gross double entendre. Last week the song came up in conversation at work, and I mentioned how I’d never heard the full album. That’s when Robinson announced he owned I Laughed…I Cried…I Fudged My Undies, and that I could borrow it.
“A faux retrospective (hosted by a Mr. Alan Pinchloaf) of the naughty and sleazy lounge singer Red Peters, I Laughed…I Cried…I Fudged My Undies is a party record for when the kids go to bed. Peters takes double entendres (sometimes gross, almost always sexual) and stretches them into songs. That’s it. That’s all he does. Over and over. He’s not even what you’d call “clever” and most of these jokes go back to bawdy vaudeville. But Peters is well aware of how simple and stupid his material is and that’s what makes the album so much fun. His lounge singer character is a defeated guy who, according to Mr. Pinchloaf, spiraled down his career to the point of entertaining at a Tourette’s syndrome benefit (this is the live recording with audience reaction). “How’s Your Whole…Family?” and “Ballad of a Dog Named Stains” are the big hits that Howard Stern listeners will be familiar with, but Peters has plenty of good material past that. The happy jig “The Two Gay Irishmen” and the David Seville & the Chipmunks tribute “Holy Shit, It’s Christmas!” are not just as good as the hits but also serve to diversify the album — at least as far as the music. He’s too meek to be a misogynist and too dumb to show much malice, which makes him all the more loveable. If you still think fart jokes are funny, dig in. Pinchloaf’s faux documentary throughout the disc strings everything together nicely. If you want to play the role of Peters at your next party, there are some Karaoke mixes at the end.”
Red Peters
I Laughed… I Cried… I Fudged My Undies
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Tracklist:
01. Baby Blue Intro (with Alan Pinchloaf)
02. Blow Me (You Hardly Even Know Me)
03. How’s Your Whole…Family?
04. Two Gay Irishmen
05. Rocket In My Pants
06. Intro By Alan Pinchloaf
07. Holy Shit, It’s Christmas
08. Ballad Of A Dog Named Stains
09. The Dark Years
10. Little Peter
11. You Promised The Moon (But I Preferred Uranus)
12. Baby Blue (instrumental)
13. Blow Me (You Hardly Even Know Me) (instrumental)
14. You Promised The Moon (But I Preferred Uranus) (Karaoke mix)
15. Blow Me (You Hardly Even Know Me) (Karaoke mix)
16. Diana
17. 10 Second National Anthem
