While you were chowing down on mashed potatoes and gravy last Thanksgiving, a music video filmed at the Tuesday Farmers Market on State Street was conquering the World Wide Web. Reaching the coveted front page of YouTube.com by turkey time was “The Gobble Song” by Spencer the Gardener, a brilliantly simple and ferociously catchy seasonal ditty about America’s national holiday.
Since then, the Russ Spencer-produced video—which features the musicians interspersed with familiar faces dancing like poultry — has been viewed by a half million web surfers planet-wide; it’s been on radio and television stations around the country; it’s inspired parents to film their children dancing along; it’s led to teachers asking for copies of the song to play in class; and it’s poised to be America’s first real Thanksgiving song that anyone can think of. (There is, of course, Adam Sandler's "Thanksgiving Song”, but it's more of a joke, rather abstract, and mentions masturbation, thereby making it unfit for mass holiday consumption.) And there’s no need to fret if you missed it last year, for Spencer Barnitz, who’s been singing to Santa Barbara for decades, warns us, “Here it comes again
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