I've been doing weekly radio programs (WPRB, WRSU, WFMU) on and off for 20 years now, and in all that time, you'd think I might have learned something important. Then again, maybe it all depends on how broad your definition of that word is. For example, I have firmly established beyond all doubt that opening a radio program with this song will generate an email or phone call from a girl on the inside of six minutes.
This isn't a hunch or a gag, nor is it thinly-veiled advice for my single friends who also reside behind the mic with some degree of regularity.
This is science. This is Jonathan Richman.
Photo by Dani Canto [CC BY-NC 2.0]
Good taste by McGasko.
Absolutely true.
Posted by: Julia ! | January 11, 2011 at 02:17 PM
Hey, that's the great, super-rare version from the "Route 128 Revisited" vinyl boot. Did that digitization come from my copy? It's a different recording from the one that appears on the various CD boots that I've run across.
Posted by: Ken Katkin | January 11, 2011 at 03:49 PM
Dunno where that came from -- You would have to ask Captain Joe McGasko, whose fine radio program the song is pulled from. I shall summon him. -mike
Posted by: r:m:b | January 11, 2011 at 03:52 PM
Hey, all! I think that was the summer I did pick up the "Route 128 Revisited" boot, which is why I played it. I have the other version, too, but I always liked this one more. Thanks for the kind words, Mike!
Posted by: Joe McG | January 11, 2011 at 04:21 PM