Subj : The Cowsills
To   : Martin Ridgley
From : Bill Riley
Date : Thu Aug 17 2000 10:00 am

Martin Ridgley wrote in a message to Paul Lawson:

 MR>    What were their hits again?   I seem to recall, "1, 2, 3, Red
 MR> Light",  and "Simon Says".  I suspect Riley will remember those,
 MR> too (even if  he doesn't actually come out and admit it).  <cheeky
 MR> grin>

Oh I remember them.  I grew up in a small town in the desert of Idaho.  All we 
got was top 40 crap on AM radio.  The only way you could hear anything decent 
was to wait until midnight when all the local stations were off the air.  Then 
you could get Wolfman Jack on XERB.  Also KOMA out of Okalahoma City, (anybody 
else remember them at midnight when they would go directional?  They'd say 
"we're going coast to coast and border to border" and suddenly the volume on 
your radio would jump 100%.  50,000 am watts coming at you from 9 diectional 
towers.  Man, the days of clear channel stations.


 MR>    The Cowsills were a family of musical siblings who became the
 MR> model  for the Partridge Family.  The producers originally wanted

Damn, you're as warped as Gilmore...and that's saying a lot. :)

 MR>    Okay now..., while we're on this bubblegum trivia thing, does  
 MR> anyone remember The Ohio Express?   ;-)

Not me, never heard of them?  :))
  
Bill
   
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