Quality Shtick!

Dear Friends,

This month's Hard Taco song, "Wilt Chamberlain" is fire. It is a certified bop. Behold, this phat track is a crackdown thunderclap bootyknocker hot ass thumper beat-clapping neck-slapper jam.

The opening salvo of this song, in which we repeatedly sing the titular basketball player's name, has been stuck in my head for over 30 years. The line was originally written for (and performed by) a group of prepubescent boys when I worked as cabin counselor at Camp Interlaken JCC in the mid-90s.

Being staff at Interlaken was hands-down the best job I ever had. I spent four weeks with friends Adam Bilsky, David Butlein and a gaggle of insane sixth graders in Cabin Naphtali. (Interlaken has a delightfully mysterious tradition of naming cabins after ensemble characters in Andrew Lloyd Weber's "Joseph and Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat." Nobody remembers why, but I love it!)

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