Same name, different game

Watching the CBS Morning News the other day, I saw the flyboy who runs the Air Force Academy explaining why nothing was done about all the allegations of sexual assault that occurred out there and were swept under a rug that you and I paid for.

But I'm not going to write about all that, as sickening as it is. 

The throttle jockey was saying something about not interfering "in General Johnson's investigation."

General Johnson! General JOHNSON!

Music fans who can remember a time before Justin Bieber know whom I mean.  If you don't know his name, you certainly know his voice.

Johnson

General Norman Johnson (1941 - 2010) was the lead singer of The Showmen, who hit with "It Will Stand" in 1961 and then, as lead singer of The Chairmen Of The Board, he did "Give Me Just A Little More Time" in 1970. That one is the song where he rolls his tongue and goes "brrrrr," like when you were in Spanish I rolling your tongue over "¡Sí Señor!," only he got paid for that and for writing hits such as "Patches" for Clarence Carter, "Want Ads", "Stick Up," and "One Monkey Don't Stop No Show for Honey Cone" and "Bring the Boys Home" for Freda Payne.

His records are very popular in the sub-niche musical genre called "Carolina Beach Music," where people happily dance The Shag to 4/4 tempo shuffles in nightspots along North and South Carolina beachside bars.

So, whoever this General Johnson in the Air Force is, I think he has a lot of nerve using the name of a great, great man. Give him just a little more time, though.