Music: Stay as Sick as You Are

The mood is hushed. A guitar is strummed lightly, and as the lullaby begins, a young mother sings in sweet, loving tones to her helpless child:

Hush little sibling, close your eyes.

Mummy will have you analyzed.

Daddy found something very new,

We're gonna try it out on you.

The lullaby is one of a dozen Songs of Couch and Consultation (Commentary Records) beguilingly warbled over her own guitar playing by blonde Nightclub Singer Katie Lee. With lyrics by Bud Freeman, a sometime movie press-agent and independent recordmaker, the disk is an eminently amusing spoof of the nation's taste in song and psychoanalysis....

Want the full story?

Subscribe Now

Subscribe
Subscribe

Learn more about the benefits of being a TIME subscriber

If you are already a subscriber sign up — registration is free!