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radiofan16
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Posted: 22 June 2024 at 3:57am |
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Posted: 06 July 2024 at 1:27pm |
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Funny looking back over this post,
In Houston all the top 40 stations played the promo 45, and that was the only copy I ever had of the song. Chop the 6:27 LP version down to 5:57, then further to 5:23. Basically 30 second cuts for 45 and promo. The 2 AOR stations played the LP version. I can't remember ever hearing the single release ever played in Houston. |
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Posted: 10 July 2024 at 8:56am |
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At the risk of veering OT...this song, as much as I love it,
will haunt me forever. When I was on Jeopardy, this Final Jeopardy clue stumped all 3 of us. I'm still bummed that I didn't make the connection to this song. Any guesses? THE GREAT LAKES: An 1855 poem gives us this Native American name for the 1 Great Lake not known to us today by a Native American word or a tribe's name |
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Posted: 10 July 2024 at 1:47pm |
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It would have to be Gitche-Gumee from the first line of the song. I wasn't familiar with the poem ("The Song Of Hiawatha"), but I just looked it up, and it's referenced there, too, in the last part.
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Posted: 10 July 2024 at 8:14pm |
Very good! That factoid could have been worth, like, $20,000. With more time, I might have gotten there but 30 seconds goes fast. During the credits, I mentioned the Lightfoot connection to Alex Trebek (another Canadian legend). Alex was polite but didn't seem impressed. |
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