Little Jimmy Brown
photo frompinterest.com My dad took one look at the television and said, "Christ, she looks like a water buffalo." My mother had insisted on watching the Grand Ole Opry and my dad was trying to make her regret it. The performers on the screen were a trio called the Browns comprised of Bonnie, Maxine and Jim Ed Brown, singing their number one single "The Three Bells " . I had heard the song on the radio but never seen it performed in front of an audience. I had always assumed the song was a parody of the shameless maudlin lyrics found in popular songs th at passed for music in the mid 1950s such as "The little White Cloud that Cried" by Johnny Ray and Gogi Grant's "Suddenly, There's a Valley". It wasn't until the Browns were almost finished before I realized, "My God, they're serious." It definitely caused some confusion for me in the development of my understanding of humor. I had begun to "get