The Fortune Cookie Song
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content: RCA label
notes: label: Description
content: It is indeed a sweet song of uplift. Released in 1971, the song was a track in the 1970s hit sitcom, “The Brady Bunch.” It is sang by Eve Plumb who plays Jan Brady, an awkward middle child jealous of her older more popular sister. Jan is described as being insecure of her freckles and glasses, and has an inferiority complex against her older sister.
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content: According to AlbumLinerNotes.com, 1970 music scene was dominated by scores from television. Armed with popularity of “the Brady Bunch,” the crew released a series of albums and singles, with credit given to the actors’ television personas.
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content: The lyrics of the “Fortune Cookie Song” is in line with Eve Plumb’s television character: a teenaged girl who finds solace in a phrase in a fortune cookie, an artifact from an equally nonconforming culture. What is curious, however, is the disappearance of the cultural source of the fortune cookie once she is enraptured of her sadness: “But being happy makes you wise,/ I feel suited to advise you,/ If your smiles on the blink./ You don’t need a fortune cookie.”
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content: Perhaps the producer’s attempt at capturing the confusing external world from the perspective of children, the mysterious nature of the phrase “Nicci nicci sgnacci nicci sgnacci mucchi mucchi” is illustrated through the usage of the exotic nature of fortune cookies.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States
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content: Work and Industry: Asian Pacific American Business
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content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2012.3057.07
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content: 2012.3057
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content: 2012.3057.07
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content: record
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: paper (container material)
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content: plastic (inside material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 6 7/8 in; x 17.4625 cm