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From: "Roy Stockdill" <>
Subject: Re: [YKS] Re: NON-GEN Re: Deck of Cards Bible
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2002 11:21:53 +0000
In-Reply-To: <3C5990CF.B6EF3967@virgin.net>


Guy Etchells <> wrote.....

> To be serious for a minute though, isn't it strange how every one of
> those songs that are supposed to have made you cringe have been huge
> hits, often more than once; food for thought.<<

NOT really. It just goes to show that YORKSGENNERS have a bit more taste and
discrimination than the rest of the human race who actually bought the records!

There is also, I suggest, a curious factor at work here in that certain disc
jockeys (i.e. Terry Wogan) just love to play appallingly bad records so they
can jest and make fun of them, little knowing there are listeners out there who
will actually LIKE them and go out and buy them in sufficiently large numbers
to make them hits!

How do you think Ken Dodd, Des O'Connor and Max Bygraves ever got to be so
popular, not to mention that American freak called Tiny Tim???

Roy Stockdill
Editor, the Journal of One-Name Studies
Editor, "My Ancestors Were..." series (Society of Genealogists)
Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- www.one-name.org
Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History:- www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html

Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you, if he does not why humiliate him? - Canon Sydney Smith

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