To: Former Proud Canadian
It was from the old Dinah Shore Chevrolet commercial. I am old enough that I understood the references in the lyrics.
I always believed that the reference to Jack Flash sitting on the candlestick was about the gay tryst between Mick Jagger and David Bowie.
21 posted on
02/10/2012 6:16:17 AM PST by
Aevery_Freeman
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To: Aevery_Freeman
The song also started the Urban Legend that the name of the plane they were on was Miss American Pie.
22 posted on
02/10/2012 6:18:40 AM PST by
massgopguy
(I owe everything to George Bailey)
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