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To: OttawaFreeper
Terrible news.

Tom Petty's Southern Accents was one of the most underrated albums of all time.

There was also a great bit of trivia about it ...

Songwriter Mike Campbell wrote the music for a song that was originally supposed to be included on that album, but Tom Petty left it off because it didn't seem to fit in with the general tone of the album. So he gave Campbell permission to use it for something else. Campbell took it to a guy -- whose name you right recognize -- named Don Henley, who wrote the lyrics for what turned out to be one of the signature tunes (and videos) of the 1980s:

The Boys Of Summer

73 posted on 10/02/2017 12:58:55 PM PDT by Alberta's Child ("Tell them to stand!" -- President Trump, 9/23/2017)
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To: Alberta's Child

Fun Fact....

Tom Petty’s guitar teacher in Gainesville was a guy named Don Felder...who later went on to join some group about birds.


82 posted on 10/02/2017 1:08:13 PM PDT by newfreep ("INSIDE EVERY PROGRESSIVE IS A TOTALITARIAN SCREAMING TO GET OUT" @HOROWITZ39, DAVID HOROWITZ)
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