The Robot Cat

Album: Goodbye, My 4-Track (2003)
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Songfacts®:

  • In this song, Logan Whitehurst orders a robot cat from Japan. It takes him a while to put together, but when it's complete it not only catches mice, but also cooks, cleans, does car repair and provides stock quotes. Seeing its power, Whitehurst orders a thousand more so he can build a robot cat army and achieve world domination.

    Logan wrote the song during a trip to Japan, where he actually found himself purchasing a robotic cat, presumably with fewer features than the one he sings about. >>
    Suggestion credit:
    Sean - Chicago, IL
  • Logan Whitehurst specialized in novelty songs like this one and was a favorite of Dr. Demento. Very prolific, he was a drummer in the bands The Velvet Teen and Little Tin Frog in addition to making music on his own. He was afflicted with brain cancer around the time he released this song on his album Goodbye, My 4-Track in 2003 and died in 2006.

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