The life of a cowboy out on the range is a lonesome one, with only a campfire and your fellow menfolk to keep you warm at night.
While Salty Holmes and his band, the Prairie Ramblers, may not have been out there wrangling cattle for a living, they kept that spirit of close country camaraderie afire in some of their tunes.
Under the musical alias Sweet Violet Boys, Holmes and his band made a number of novelty tunes. One of these that has endured the longest is “I Love My Fruit”, a tongue-in-cheek record espousing their admiration for various fruits and nuts — in bed, of course.
Early lines like “I like to guzzle cherries and I eat them every night in bed” tip the listener off, but all pretense is out the window once we get to the sections on nuts and bananas.
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“I am always hungry for bananas/That it almost seems to be a sin,” they sing. “They’re so good that when I’m all through eating/I still love to nibble on the skin.”
Listen to the rollicking, raunchy spirit of “I Love My Fruits”:
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The Sweet Violet Boys were the Village People of 1939!