I'm sitting here listening to some tapes I taped off the oldies radio like, oh, back in 1992 or so. I decided to finally discover what the names to all these songs are, because most of them having been bugging me for like 10 years now.
As it turns out, I had awful taste when I was 12. I mean, the Limbo Rock. Come on, self. Along with a couple of songs I hated, even back then, which is why they're on both tapes. Then there's a couple times when I forgot I was recording, went off and did something else, and caught entire commercial breaks from 1992.
We were not brilliant when we were young.
OTOH, there's enough Steppenwolf, Rolling Stones, and the like in there so that I can't totally ostracize my younger self. Too, there is a particular song request call I managed to catch on tape which is just...something. The transcript follows.
[Background: Sometime in the early 90s, the Tillamook diary ran a commercial saying that the cows were depressed and needed our help, and so people should call the cows and help them out. Most of us didn't take it seriously.]
DJ: "Oldies 97.1."
Jerry: "This is Jerry. I need your help. I have visitors from Wisconsin, and I wanted to know if you could play Bob's special request to all of us to call the cows. The Tillamook cows are depressed!"
DJ: "You're calling for me to play a COMMERCIAL!?"
Jerry: "A special commercial! Only because they're from Wisconsin! And they have to call the cows to let 'em know that even Wisconsinites like Tillamook cows."
DJ: "I can't take a request for a commercial!"
Jerry: "But I'm a snob! And I drive a Beamer, too!"
DJ: *giggle*
Jerry: "Those two things alone should say that you should play this for my friends from Wisconsin."
DJ: "I'll tell you what. If you hang on, I'll get you the phone number, ok?"
Jerry: "Oh, it's 224-1681."
DJ: "Oh, you've got it."
Jerry: "I have it memorized. I tell everyone to call Bob."
DJ: "And why...why don't you just have them call then?"
Jerry: "I did. We've left little messages. But I want them to hear the commercial."
DJ: "Well thanks for calling, Jerry. Listen, I'll just play a song for the cows, how's that?"
Jerry: *laughing* "Just what I wanted to hear."
*Grazing In the Grass plays*
Posted by Dwip at December 3, 2004 4:21 AM