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- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dave_barry
- Path: sparky!uunet!looking!brad
- From: brad@clarinet.com (Brad Templeton)
- Subject: Re: Bad Songs
- Organization: ClariNet Communications Corp.
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:10:43 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.071043.17781@clarinet.com>
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- But you don't understand. According to what I have heard, McArthur Park
- was the result of an attempt to see how insipidly stupid a song could be
- made into a hit if it had famous people behind it and a good tune.
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- They were successful, but such should be disqualified for a worst song of
- all time contest, which should pick as a winner a song that was stupid
- but which the artists involved actually meant seriously.
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- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Sunnyvale, CA 408/296-0366
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