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  • Dakota (Formerly The Buoys) - Timothy

    05/18/2025 1:55:46 PM PDT · by Robert DeLong · 23 replies
    Youtube ^ | 1970 | The Buois
    This band approached Rupert Holmes and asked him to write them a song that would be banned. Rupert said okay, but why must it be banned? Their response was that we have no label sponsoring us, so if we have a hit that the radio stations will ban that we will receive name recognition. The song Rupert came up with was Timothy, which was banned. The Buoys never quite hit the bigtime. They changed their name to Dakota and became the opening band for Queen. This was one of the songs they did after their 25 year reunion in 2005....