American composer and pianist William Bolcom (b. 1938) wrote “Lime Jello Marshmallow Cottage Cheese Surprise” in 1980 for his wife and collaborator, Joan Morris, and the two of them have been performing it together ever since.
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Home sweet home
Bob's sister Hannah
Bob's sister Ada
Bob's brother Otto
Bob's sister Eve
Bob's sister Nan
A baby picture of Bob and his siblings (clockwise from upper left: Otto, Eve, Hannah, Ada, Bob, and Nan)
Bob's childhood home
Bob's mom and dad
Bob in his youth
Bob's cousin Alphonse
Bob's Uncle Ralph and Aunt Edna
Bob's cousin Archibald
Bob's stepbrother Herbie (who really needs to quit smoking)
Bob's cousin Chester
Bob's Great Uncle Norbert and Great Aunt Phyllis
Bob's cousin Saffron (who will do anything for a drink)
Bob's cousin Thorndike
Bob's brother-in-law Vinnie
Bob's cousin Orville, who loves the Green Bay Packers
Bob's nieces Lulu and Bitsy, the biker chicks
Bob's stepsister Eloise, with the twins, Rudy and Trudy
Bob's Uncle Henry and Aunt Rowena
Bob's niece Esmerelda (who likes to live dangerously)
Bob's Great Uncle Arthur up in Saskatchewan
Bob's cousin Louie, the grackle of grumpiness
Miss Screech, Bob's journalism teacher
Bob's nephew Winthrop, who loves sports
Bob's Uncle Seymour and Aunt Bernice
Bob's second cousin Schlomo in Brooklyn
Bob's nephew Baxter
Bob's cousin Darrell
Nigel, Bob's pen pal in New Zealand
Bob's sister-in-law Delphine, who volunteers at the animal shelter
Percy the Pickpocket, Bob's third cousin once removed (the relative no one likes to talk about... every family has one)
The Bluebird of Happiness™ (no relation to Bob)
A pair of boobies (also no relation to Bob, but included for readers who desire titillation)
A pair of tits (in case the boobies were insufficiently titillating)
Bluebird Bitter™, the beer they named for Bob
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Oh, MY! Where to begin??? Do bring a large spoon!
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And some bicarbonate of soda. 🙂
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We had the pleasure of seeing Bolcom and Morris in concert at Alfred University in the late 1970s. We had heard their recordings many times on the radio. The live performance was n-degrees better.
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They are very entertaining performers. 🙂
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I ate Lime Jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise many times at my grandmother’s table. It’s actually kinda good. Who knew there was a song about it? Thanks for the delightful surprise. 😀
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My mother’s specialty was orange jello with shredded carrots and crushed pineapple. I can’t tell you what it tasted like, as I flatly refused to try it. (My personal preference was for cherry jello with mandarin oranges and miniature marshmallows, which seemed to make an appearance at just about every church potluck.)
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Yeah, agreed. I never saw the appeal of grated carrots in jello…
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To become well known it must have been a good performance but I somehow missed hearing about it or the song. —- 🙂 — Suzanne
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I heard it for the first time on public radio, decades ago. I still get a kick out of it. 🙂
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A lot of this sounds yummy, but then, you have to consider I’m a bit of a “garbage gut”. I comes from my Scouting days…
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