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To: Steely Tom
Wow. I haven't even thought about that song in over 30 years! 1977 was full of quirky tunes. Remember Alan O'Day and Undercover Angel?And if you want one that was an amazing appeal to promiscuity, there was Meri Wilson's "Telephone Man."

Telephone Man

127 posted on 05/15/2011 12:35:52 AM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: buccaneer81

How about Ring My Bell by Anita Ward?


131 posted on 05/15/2011 12:39:50 AM PDT by This Just In (In America, RINO's belong in zoo's, not public office)
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To: buccaneer81

Oh God...somebody erase them from my brain!!!

I *had* totally forgotten them.


132 posted on 05/15/2011 12:40:31 AM PDT by Salamander (I'm your pain.)
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To: buccaneer81
I confess I'd never heard Telephone Man.

With regard to Undercover Angel, there was a line in a Stephen King short story, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption -- later made into the movie The Shawshank Redemption -- in which one of the two main characters, Red, is finally released from prison after serving a thirty-year sentence.

He makes a series of observations about his impressions of life in the late '70's.

One of his comments concerns the music he hears, for the first time, on the radio at that time. He says something like "all of the songs seem to be about jerking off." When I read that, back in 1982 or 1983, the first song that came to mind as an example was Undercover Angel.

151 posted on 05/15/2011 12:53:20 AM PDT by Steely Tom (Obama goes on long after the thrill of Obama is gone)
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