When WBZ played covers instead of hits
A. Joseph Ross
joe@attorneyross.com
Thu Jun 21 01:41:30 EDT 2007
On 20 Jun 2007 at 2:24, Donna Halper wrote:
> Absolutely. I remember Bruce Bradley playing Screaming Jay Hawkins
> version of "I Put a Spell on You" which he often cut up and used for
> drop-ins (or "hacks" as they used to be called). He also played
> "Grandpa's Grave" by Peter Sellers ("We're removing grandpa's grave to
> build a sewer..." Ah they don't write 'em like that any more!)
I was thinking of that when I wrote that. Bruce Bradley usually
would play a brief excerpt from "Grandpa's Grave." Occasionally, he
played more, possibly the whole thing. I used to wonder what it was
and always assumed there was more to it, since what we heard didn't
seem to make sense completely.
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