The song was inspired by a comic act on Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In about a judge by Pigmeat Markham, whose own "Here Comes the Judge" (a totally different song) charted two weeks after Long's did in June 1968, and became a Top 20 hit.
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On June 29, 1969, Long and a friend drowned when their boat capsized on the Detroit River in Michigan.
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