Re: Custom Versions of Songs (was Some WBUR history)

["Dan Billings" <dib9@gwi.net>]

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From: "Howard Glazer" <hmglaz@webtv.net>
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Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2002 2:33 PM
Subject: Re: Custom Versions of Songs (was Some WBUR history)

> That makes no sense at all. The song is about a guy who buys a '66
> Corvette that belonged to a soldier who died in Vietnam and finds that
> the ghost of Pvt. Malone is riding with him. According to the song, the
> radio doesn't work very well, but it picks up the late night oldies show
> just fine. That makes sense, since Malone would be listening to music
> from 1966 and before. Why would the radio work especially well with a
> contemporary country station, which probably doesn't play anything from
> before _1996_?

I didn't say it made any sense, I just reported what I heard.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine