Please help me decipher this Zig Zag People lyric YSI

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Please help me decipher this lyric from "Peel It Off Your Face" from The Zig Zag People: Take Bubble Gum Music Underground (Decca 1969). Very brief background - it's an album of bubblegum songs ("Indian Giver," "Simon Says," etc.) done in a bluesy psych-rock style. "Peel It Off Your Face" is an original about bubblegum music. I have most of the lyrics:

Bubblegum will leave its mark on you
Kasenetz & Katz, Bo Gentry too
But it's not so hard to peel it off your face

Take out some insurance on your soul
When you listen to that bubblegum rock and roll
But it's not so hard to peel it off your face

1650 1650
You've been 1650-ized (calling out track numbers football-style)
That's how many tracks it takes to make a song
THIS IS THE LINE I'M MISSING

Key of C is mainly what we play
Cuz sharps and flats only tend to get in the way
And our guitars just ain't programmed that way

And then there's some stuff about reverb and gimmicks. The missing line sounds like "That doesn't mean a thang but (a?) two minutes long."

Help? Thanx!

Here's the track:

https://download.yousendit.com/A452D3A67529E56C

Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 1 June 2008 22:25 (seventeen years ago)

Bump

Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 2 June 2008 13:04 (seventeen years ago)

That's what I hear: "That doesn't mean a thing, but it's two minutes long."

Cool song, never heard this before.

Dan Peterson, Monday, 2 June 2008 16:07 (seventeen years ago)

That's it! I wasn't hearing the "but it's." Grrrr...

Thanx, Dan!! And yeah, check out the rest of the album. "Simon Says" Santana-fried, "Hanky Panky" done as a jazz hymn, "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy," brought up to Spirit "I Got a Line on You" speed. It's a riot!

Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 2 June 2008 19:45 (seventeen years ago)

1650?

dad a, Monday, 2 June 2008 19:55 (seventeen years ago)

1650 Broadway, the location of Buddah Records (and Aldon Music).

Btw, some sites claim that this 1650 bit occurs in the album's other original "Sally Goes to the Dentist." But it clearly happens in "Peel It Off Your Face."

Kevin John Bozelka, Monday, 2 June 2008 20:14 (seventeen years ago)

Ah, thanks.

dad a, Monday, 2 June 2008 20:18 (seventeen years ago)


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