Earache My Eye
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"Earache My Eye"is a song by Cheech and Chong which "features" Alice Bowie (one of Cheech Marin's characters. It is featured on Cheech & Chong's Wedding Album (1974) as well as their Greatest Hit album from 1981 and their Where There's Smoke There's Cheech & Chong double-CD anthology from 2002. Cheech And Chong also lip sync to the recording (with Chong behind the drum kit instead of guitar, which he played on the original recording) in their first movie Up in Smoke (1978). The musical portion of this piece has been covered by bands like Rollins Band, Scatterbrain and Soundgarden. This piece is considered to be one of the greatest novelty audio pieces of all time, and has been featured repeatedly on the Doctor Demento radio program.
In the routine, Tommy Chong plays a punk high school student with an attitude. At the beginning of the piece he's snoring. We hear an alarm clock, and then Chong wakes up noisily. He starts up a record of mainstream metal rock with Cheech Marin singing the lyrics as if he were an Alice Cooper clone.
The song was also released as a single in 1974, containing the musical portion of the song only. The single version appears on Greatest Hit.
External links
Lyrics to song (http://www.dubba.com/hookah/lyrics/earachemyeye.htm)