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To: Fiji Hill

Six-gun, it’s six-gun....


44 posted on 11/02/2020 7:13:10 PM PST by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy...and call it progress")
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To: M1903A1

In the original version of “I Fought the Law” by the Crickets, the protagonist uses a zipgun, a homemade firearm. In Bobby Fuller’s version from 1966, he uses a six-gun. Perhaps the producers wanted to clean up his image somewhat by portraying him as a Wild West bandit rather than a street thug.


50 posted on 11/02/2020 7:22:44 PM PST by Fiji Hill
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