Posted on 06/28/2018 6:15:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode
He writes the songs that make people run.
Some Rite Aid stores in California have taken to blasting Barry Manilow tunes as part of a plan to make loiterers scramble.
Employees told the Wall Street Journal that the drugstore chain has been testing the tactic of playing songs by the 75-year-old crooner outside their stores — over and over, loudly — to deter panhandlers and vagrants.
But the plan has also left neighbors mystified.
“I thought some older man had died and left a Barry’s Most Depressing Hits CD on repeat,” said Lisa Masters, a professional drummer in Long Beach who couldn’t open her windows without hearing “Mandy” blaring.
“I felt trapped in an episode of ‘The Twilight Zone,’” she said.
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Black Oak Arkansas. Jim Dandy to the rescue, lol. The dad of one of my friends back in the day had a visceral hatred for this bunch, lol.
Hahaha! Brilliant idea!
I was working on the high school baseball field one day when some skateboarders showed up and started to do stunts on the bleachers. I told my son to go up to the press box and play some country music.
They left before the 1st chorus of Red Dirt Road ended.
I love Fogelberg and I really like his duet with Weisberg, “Part of the Plan”.
I was very young when “Heart Hotels” and “Longer” were released so I recently started downloading his LP’s. He was supremely talented and his songs were brutally honest.
I have just started listening to his compositions with Weisberg. So far, I like what I’ve heard.
Who is CVS playing? Adele?
Walgreens? Maybe Dan Fogelberg?
Nobody, and I mean absolutely nobody, admits to having listened to Barry Manilow in the 70s, yet he sold about a kazillion records. Hmmm....
You win.
Who’d hang around to hear that dirge a few more times?
It will only attract homosexuals.
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