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 Posted By: Jim Liddane on: 05/20/2011 08:36:17 EDTSubject: RE: What song is this? |
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John wrote.... Nope, I remember fine sounding stereo on my AM radio! :-) Jim replied.... So AM Radio was not soall that advanced in New Jersey then? Over here, AM Radio broadcast in perfect Quadrophonic - so it took two people and four ears to hear the song properly!:-) As regards the way black people were treated -I guess things were different way back then. We have progressed! You know the old story about how Jay & The Americans got hold of "Only In America"? The writers had penned it for The Drifters, who recorded it, but when their label heard the lyrics, "Only in America, the execs said "no way - nobody would believe those words being sung by a black group". So they sold the backing track to Leiber & Stoller, who put Jay & The Americans over it! Noe you do indeed have a black President, so the Drifters were only 40 years ahead of their time! Heard the Drifters version for the first time only last year. It was worth the wait. |
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