King Tut (song)

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“King Tut”
“King Tut” cover
Single by Steve Martin and The Toot Uncommons
from the album A Wild and Crazy Guy
B-side "Sally Goodin"
"Hoedown At Alice's"
Released 1978
Format Vinyl record (7")
Genre Comedy
Length 2:10
Label Warner Bros. Records
Writer(s) Steve Martin
Producer William E. McEuen

King Tut is a 1978 novelty song performed by Steve Martin and the "Toot Uncommons" (actually members of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band). The original performance was telecast on the April 22, 1978 episode of Saturday Night Live. A live performance of the song was included on Martin's LP A Wild and Crazy Guy.

The song paid homage to Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun and presents a caricature of the sensational Treasures of Tutankhamun travelling exhibit that toured seven United States cities from 1976 to 1979. The exhibit attracted approximately eight million visitors. In the Saturday Night Live version of "King Tut," loyal subjects appease a joyful King Tut with kitchen appliances. An instrumental solo is delivered by a moustached saxophone player (Lou Marini) who steps out of a sarcophagus to great laughter.

The song is the subject of in-depth analysis in Melani McAlister's Epic Encounters: Culture, Media, and U.S. Interests in the Middle East, 1945-2000.

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