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Doodoo Wah's albums are available here on Doodoo Wah's official World Wide Web page and in record stores from Denver west through City Hall Records, a distribution company based in San Rafael, Calif.

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Doodoo Who?

From their home in the old Gold Rush town of Columbia, CA, to bluegrass and folk festivals, theaters, bars, streets and radio stations across the country, Doodoo Wah has poked fun at Bob Dole, George Bush, Bill Clinton, Dan Quayle and Lorena Bobbitt, Christmas, middle-aged men, loggers and anti-loggers, contractors, dentists, lawyers, Dr. Kevorkian, Mike Tyson, Japanese car-makers and much more.

But it's all easy on the ear, delivered with tasteful and not spiteful humor. And it streams out amid endearing harmonies, catchy melodies, rhythms and riffs that keep "Doodooheads" tapping their toes when they aren't slapping their thighs.

Ron DeLacy and Dave Cavanagh teamed up as Doodoo Wah in 1990, parlaying DeLacy's self-deprecating wit, Cavanagh's instrumental wizardry and both of their gifts and enthusiasm for making music.

Soon they were booked up and down California's Mother Lode and in Nevada. Since then their popularity has spread to Nashville, the Midwest and points in between.

They have co-produced four "Doodoo Wah" albums, and some of their songs have been covered by Curb-Capitol's Ray Stevens ("Working for the Japanese") and Warner Brothers' Pinkard and Bowden ("Since My Baby Turned Gay" and "Long-a-Sing.")

Among other Doodoo Wah originals: "Men's Crisis Center," "Nixon in '92," "Odor in the Court" (about an attorney's courtroom flatulence) and "The Big Five-O" (an old-timey rouser on growing older).

On their second album they included their first serious song, "Brother Jol," as if to keep Doodoo Heads wondering what might be next. The answer has been more fun and more music -- Doodoo Wah And Then Some, released in 1995, and Doodoo Wah LIVE!, which came out in 1997.

Meanwhile, they keep attracting fresh Doodooheads with with an ever-expanding schedule of live performances.

DeLacy, a veteran newspaper reporter, sings lead, plays guitar and banjo and writes most of Doodoo Wah's songs, often creating parodies of his own work as a journalist.

Cavanagh, former accompanist to Randy Sparks and Burl Ives, sings backup vocals, co-writes some of the tunes and plays instrumental leads and fills on mandolin, banjo, guitar or fiddle.

Sometimes their shows also include Lake Tahoe singer-songwriter Muddy Barnes, aka Alex Guitar Boogie Smith, who adds some of his own musical and social perspective on topics from disturbing honesty ("I Like Your Wife") to the truth about Elvis Presley ("I'm Dead").

With those and other originals, Barnes recently released his first solo album.

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Joke!

Two nuns, Sister Marilyn and Sister Helen, are traveling through Europe in their car. They get to Transylvania and are stopped
at a traffic light. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a tiny little Dracula jumps onto the hood of the car and hisses through the
windshield.

"Quick, quick!" shouts Sister Marilyn. "What shall we do?"
"Turn the windshield wipers on. That will get rid of the abomination," says Sister Helen. Sister Marilyn switches them on,
knocking Dracula about, but he clings on and continues hissing at the nuns.

"What shall I do now?" she shouts.
"Switch on the windshield washer. I filled it up with Holy Water at the Vatican," says Sister Helen. Sister Marilyn turns on the
windshield washer. Dracula screams as the water burns his skin, but he clings on and continues hissing at the nuns.

"Now what?" shouts Sister Marilyn?
"Show him your cross," says Sister Helen
"Now you're talking," says Sister Marilyn.
She opens the window and shouts, "Get the fuck off our car!"

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