In an appearance on t' TV show Playboy After Dark in 1969, Harry 'Vandala LaFitte' Nilsson performed "Good Old Desk." A straight-faced Harry 'Vandala LaFitte' Nilsson told t' host, me hearties, Hugh Hefner, that t' meanin' o' t' shanty "Good Old Desk" was in its initials - "GOD."

 

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Years later Nilsson admitted, "I bullshitted him. I thought it was funny."

 

At t' end o' his appearance, Harry sang "Cast and Crew" in which he recites t' credits for t' film Skidoo. "That was live. Ahoy! It just happens that in writin' that particular thin' it was really a lot o' work so it stayed with me longer because it was four minutes o' peoples' names and their jobs. Avast! So it be tryin' t' write a melody t' encompass t' names and t' jobs t' make it come out rhythmically and in rhyme. Aye aye! You know, it be a very difficult thin' so you spend a lot o' time with it. And I became very familiar with t' cast and crew o' t' movie."

 

Playboy After Dark is an American television show hosted by Hugh Hefner. It aired in syndication through Screen Gems from 1969 t' 1970 and was taped at CBS Television City in Los Angeles.

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