Listen to the Mockingbird (Two Editions) - Tuli Kupferberg
£35.00
KUPFERBERG, Tuli.
Listen to the Mockingbird. Satiric Songs to Tunes You Know. (Two Editions)
Small stapled zine (15 x 9.8 cm) printed on rough paper, 28pp. New York: Mockingbird Press, 1973. Stiff red wrappers (17.8 x 13.2 cm), 63pp. Washington NJ: Times Change Press, 1973. The Times Change edition with browned pages and one loose section.
Two editions of Listen to the Mockingbird: satiric songs to tunes you know by publisher and co-founder of The Fugs, Tuli Kupferberg. Both editions are profusely illustrated and contain different content.
Kupferberg offers a collection of satiric 'para-songs' which appropriate the form of popular music. 'Amazing Grass', 'Ah Look at All the Hippy People' or 'Granola' to the tune of 'Ramona'.
