68: Good Things Are Fantastic!

68. "I Love Things That Are Great (Theme from the Tony Bennett Show)" by Alec Baldwin (as Tony Bennett) [iTunes? No.] {Video: I Love Things That Are Great. (This is a video of the entire skit. Only the opening song is at #68 on the HondoJoe Top 200.)}

Nobody expected Alec Baldwin to be in the HondoJoe Top 200! Yet, here he is.

Back in the day, when I was single and had lots and lots of free time, I used to have a) the technology, and 2) the know-how, of how to take snippets of stuff off of the television and convert them to mp3 form that I could play as music on my computer. (In fact, that's how I got my version of "Girl" by Davy Jones, found at #106 on this list, from off of a Brady Bunch VHS that I bought, and "All Fall Down" by Electric Light Orchestra Part II, found at #171 on this list, also from a VHS tape I purchased.)

Unfortunately, now that I have been married for close to eight years, I'm not sure if I still have the technology to do that, but I am certain that the know-how to do it has been replaced by things like "how to properly change a diaper," "how to potty-train a boy," and "what to do when a diaper-change and/or potty train goes awry."

So, I'm lucky I got this song when I did.

Alec Baldwin is a bundle-full of happiness. Always.

This song comes from an episode of Saturday Night Live featuring Alec Baldwin portraying an upbeat Tony Bennett on a recurring skit called "The Tony Bennett Show." Here are the lyrics:

I love things that are great.
Good things are fantastic.
Guess what? I also paint.
Just a hobby, nothing drastic.
I dig everything except for things I don't.
And I'll try anything except the things I say I won't.
But one thing's for sure:
I love things (shu-dooba-du-bee-bop) that are great!

It's just a 55 second snippet of a song, but if it doesn't put a smile on your face, you probably don't know how to smile. In fact, before my original Mac desktop computer died, this song was the runaway leader in the "Most Played" iTunes category. (I'm not sure why it was the most played. Other than it's a good thing, and good things are fantastic.)

COMING UP NEXT: L-M-N-O-PEE!