Amergin and Mousethief,
Did you two actually have this "conversation" with neither of you aware that Steve Goodman used to string these together in an hilarious medley?!
Subject: RE: One hit wonders
From: Amergin
Date: 30-Apr-01 - 11:14 PM
Uh, Jimmy Buffet isn't exactly a one hit wonder....
What about that one hilarious song....the one about how this guy and his girl got stuck on the tracks and they escaped the car...but then she went back for the class ring and got killed?
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Subject: RE: One hit wonders
From: mousethief
Date: 30-Apr-01 - 11:17 PM
That's Teen Angel. Not sure who did it.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Subject: RE: One hit wonders
From: Amergin
Date: 30-Apr-01 - 11:19 PM
That's the one...it's one of the funniest things I have heard...gets me rolling everytime I hear it...
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Subject: RE: One hit wonders
From: mousethief
Date: 30-Apr-01 - 11:26 PM
Amergin, I think it's supposed to bring a lump to your throat and all that.
Have you ever heard the one with the refrain, "Strange things happen in this world"? The guy goes to the football game and meets this pretty girl and she's cold so he gives her his letterman's sweater to wear. He drives her home. Before he gets home he realizes she has his sweater so he goes back to her house to get it. Her father says is this some kind of sick joke? My daughter died a year ago tonight. He goes to the graveyard and his sweater is on her gravestone. Amazing song for a rock/pop hit. Very ghost-folky, really.
Alex