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Sarsaparilla Lillian

by Stephen Oddyssey & the Love Buzz

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Today we at the Heritage Hump mourn the passing of legendary British rock icon Stephen Oddyssey. The ambidextrous singer donned many fanciful masks in his 40-plus-year career, Buzzy Sandwitch, Wuzzy Wonderful, Analog Cabin and Mr. Stephen to You, but no Stephen Oddyssey persona resonated longer in the public’s imagination than Hedda Glittersnipe, an intergalactic Hollywood gossip columnist whose guise he adopted on and offstage for the 1973 concept album, Hedda Glittersnipe and the Scandals of Earth and Space.

This blurring of the line between fantasy and reality reached a bipolar zenith when he began a series of legendary New Musical Express interviews with himself. As Hedda, he was the first to break the story of Stephen Oddyssey’s “retirement” shortly after the release of this single about a dead ingénue who haunts a Schraffts soda fountain shop in the hopes of being discovered for the “New Faces of 1941.”

The Hedda saga may have ended here, but for Stephen Oddyssey, image makeovers as a disco power broker, household appliance rocker, singer songwriter in rags and finally, rock elder statesman who gets blamed for everything pretentious that comes down the pike, still lay ahead.

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Sarsaparilla Lillian
(written by Stephen Oddyssey)

She's got megaton hair, a Trans-Lux stare
She flickers monochrome off and on.
Her pretty little head hasn't processed she's dead
And the two-a-day Burly-Q's gone
So she haunts this soda fountain shop
With dreams of installing herself at the top
No one's discovered her yet but the neighborhood watch

O-O-O Sarsaparilla Lillian
O-O-O Sarsaparilla Lillian
I'd buy you a big bright gawdy corsage
If your weren't a 1940s mirage
O-O-O Sarsaparilla Lillian

She's a stage door Joanie
Her cheekbones are boney
And Hillywood gets what it wants
The boys in the street are throwing trash at her feet
They think she's a publicity stunt
Look at her face and it's pale as chalk
No one knows why she's refusing to talk
It's all I can do to keep from walking away

O-O-O Sarsaparilla Lillian
O-O-O Sarsaparilla Lillian

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O-O-O Sarsaparilla Lillian
O-O-O Sarsaparilla Lillian
I'd buy you a big bright gawdy corsage
If your weren't a 1940s mirage
O-O-O Sarsaparilla Lillian

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released January 13, 2016

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