2003 OCTOBER 24 #297
Dick "Two Ton" Baker ("The Music Maker") - I'm a Little Weenie
This 10-inch promotional album of selections from children's records on the Imperial label featured two different versions of this song, surely one of the most Freudian children's songs ever to hit the market. This is the better version of the two because the vocalist captures the sadness of the unwanted wiener.
UPDATE: AUGUST 2005
I received an e-mail recently from a guy named Dick
Baker who, though no relation to Dick "Two
Ton" Baker, has created a Web site devoted
to him, http://twotonbaker.com/ - He told me that this version of "I'm a Little
Weenie" is not in fact Dick "Two Ton"
Baker's version. There were two versions of the
song on the Imperial Records compilation LP which
were borrowed from a now-deceased friend and taped,
and the better one (to my ears, at least) was the
one featured here. I did some digging through my
poorly organized cassette lists and found that this
version was performed by another children's entertainer,
Sheriff John (Rovick), who hosted the popular local
TV show 'Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade' on L.A.'s
KTTW Channel 11 from 1952 to 1970. Here are links
to some Sheriff John pages:
http://www.tvacres.com/child_sheriff_john.htm
http://latvlegends.com/SheriffJohn/sheriffjohn.html
http://www.tvparty.com/lostlasheriff.html
http://www.geocities.com/weird-harold/
- Perry Amberson
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Jef Stevens writes:
""I'm a little weenie" was performed by Dick ""Two Ton" Baker ("The Music Maker")
who was also well-known in the Chicago area as a Pirate
kiddie show host and disc jockey in the 50's. He was also
famous for his songs "I'm A Lonely Little Petunia
(In An Onion Patch," "In Heaven There is no
Beer," "I Like Stinky Cheese," "What
the Engine Done," and "Civilization." He
also made television commercials yelling "Laugh your
troubles away at Chicago's Riverview Amusement Park".
How they got him in to (or out of) the Wild Mouse (mini-roller
coaster), is anyone's guess.