“He Laughed His A$$ Off”
As the story goes, Green was dozing off in front of the TV when he suddenly heard his name mentioned, which caught his attention. He immediately called up Cryer. Up until that point, Green hadn’t heard The Joker, and when Cryer played it for him, “he laughed his ass off.”
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Cryer explained that Green’s song The Letter him conjured up his dream woman. “Pizmotality described words of such secrecy that they could only be spoken to the one you loved,” Green told Cryer. He also said that he made up the word “puppetutes” to describe “a secret paper doll fantasy figure.” This woman would be his “everything and bear my children.” It was 1954…