Re: WRKO Lyric Edits....

[Dan Strassberg <dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net>]

At 06:58 AM 5/12/97 +0000, you wrote:
>Actually, custom versions go way back before WRKO.  You 50s fans may recall
>a song called "High School USA" by Tommy Facenda.  He cut 12 different
>versions, with the names of high schools in major cities all over the USA.
>Trouble is, he relied on somebody who wrote down the names of the high
>schools, so in the Boston custom version, he says Wellesley wrong (he says
>it 'Wessley') and calls Jamaica Plain 'Jam Plain'-- obviously it had been
>written for him as an abbreviation but he thought that was the name of the
>town... Arnie Ginsburg and other top-40 jocks got a good laugh out of it... 

Didn't Freddy "boom-boom" Cannon record special local versions of some of
his songs? By now, the only song of his that I can remember is Palasaides
Park (and I doubt that there were local versions of that one).

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