Which, of course, brought back this earworm from 1972.
The writer and performer of that jaunty tune is Loudon Wainwright III.
He is the son of a Life Magazine columnist and editor who exposed him to the music of Tom Lehrer and Stan Freberg, who the younger Wainwright cited as influences on his style.
Loudon III was married for a time to the late folk singer Kate McGarrigle, which produced two children who both became singers and writers, Rufus and Martha Wainwright.
A relationship with singer Suzzy Roche resulted in another daughter, Lucy Wainwright Roche, also a singer.
Loudon III has written and recorded many songs, won a Grammy, and acted in movies and television shows.
But I'll always think of him as the guy who introduced me to the "Dead Skunk in the Middle of the Road."
