TV Is The Thing-Dinah Washington

[ti:TV Is The Thing This Year] [ar:Dinah Washington] [al:First Issue: The Dinah Washington Story (The Original Recordings)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]TV Is The Thing - Dinah Washington [00:06.21]If you wanna have fun come home with me [00:09.25]You can stay all night and play with my TV [00:12.76]TV is the thing this year this year [00:15.92]TV is the thing this year [00:18.00] [00:18.97]Radio was great now it's out of date [00:22.58]TV is the thing this year [00:24.57] [00:25.38]Last night I was watching old Tom Nix [00:28.91]My TV broke I was in a fix [00:31.51] [00:32.05]I Got on the phone and called my man [00:35.04]Said get here daddy as fast as you can [00:38.42]TV is the thing this year oh [00:41.80]TV is the thing this year [00:43.72] [00:44.56]Radio was great but now it's out of date [00:48.02]And TV is the thing this year [00:50.05] [00:51.03]Now he turned my dial to channel one [00:53.75] [00:54.43]I knew that this was gonna be fun [00:57.14] [00:58.02]He turned my dial to channel two [01:00.67]That station thrilled me through and through [01:03.86]He moved one notch to channel three [01:06.67]I said oh how I love what you're doin' to me [01:09.71]He said wait a minute let's try channel four [01:12.51] [01:13.05]Just about that time someone knocked on the door [01:16.03]TV is the thing this year oh yes [01:18.94]TV is the thing this year [01:21.21] [01:22.26]Radio was great now it's out of date [01:25.03] [01:25.84]TV is the thing this year [01:27.69] [01:29.08]The way he eased into channel five [01:32.07]That man must a had fluid drive [01:34.59] [01:35.21]He moved once more to channel six [01:37.91]Then he opened up his bag of tricks [01:41.13]On channel seven the show was late [01:44.26]But we got our kicks on channel eight [01:46.91] [01:47.47]He turned my dial to channel nine [01:50.20] [01:50.93]Said Baby your set is workin' fine [01:53.70]He moved on up to channel ten [01:56.24] [01:56.75]Then we started all over again [01:59.22] [01:59.77]He finally hit channel eleven [02:02.64]I cried mama he treats your daughter so good [02:06.56] [02:07.53]TV is the thing this year yes [02:09.80] [02:10.98]Yes radio was great but now it's out of date [02:15.31]TV is the thing this year [02:17.19] [02:20.00]Baby my set will need fixin' just about this time every night