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From: <>
Subject: Re: Trivia #unk3
Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 00:33:41 -0700

this one went by so quickly, I was still trying to think of the name of
the song. Are you saving it till next time?

Jackie ;-)

On Sat, 7 Nov 1998 16:07:41 -0700 "Lynn" <> writes:
>Dick warned us he was 'researching' for his Trivia question, and I
>will
>have to say he was digging hard!!
>Good luck to all!
>Lynn
>
>Here it is:
>Question:
>
>Dennis is now in his mid-50's and teaches music in Lincoln, NE. He
>remembers a musical piece that Rick had once written in just a few
>minutes.
> They were young men nearly the same age, living in Lincoln, and they
>offered vocal accompaniment while they played their song first in a
>St.
>Joseph, MO, bar. One of the tune's unique features was that each
>successive verse adjusted upward in key.
>
>Dave, a writer from the East, has heard it and he thinks there have
>been
>only six songs ever which are worse than the one performed by Rick
>and
>Dennis. A disk-jockey on the East Coast, another Dave, also declares
>in
>his opinion that it is one of the bad songs of all time.
>
>Personally, I don't know what can be done about enlightening these
>'mis-guided Daves.' I always thought it was a terrific song.
>
>Today, a Lincoln, NE, FM station ranks this old song 300th
>most-requested
>by listeners. A New York City FM station puts it as the 285th
>favorite.
>In 1997 a Pennsylvania FM radio station revealed it as their all-time
>25th
>most-requested song. And in 1996, listeners of a Maryland FM station
>ranked it 15th all-time. Back when the song was new, it occupied the
>#1
>spot in nation-wide surveys -- the most popular song across the
>entire
>country.
>
>Can anyone tell us the surnames of Rick and Dennis?
>
>

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