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Subject:Re: C.W. McCall and minor '66 update
From:Glenn Wanek
Date:Mon, 6 May 96 19:17:19 CDT

At 06:03 PM 5/6/96 -0500, Dyer Lytle wrote:
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>
>Rodney sez,
>
>> Anyone remember this song:
>> 
>> "Me an' RJ an' the kids went on a campout in the Mountains, and we had
>> us one-o'-them U-drive-em army jeep cars which we had rented from a
>
>Yep, "Black Bear Road" is on one of my favorite drivin' CDs called something
>like "C.W. McCall, Greatest Hits" that I picked up about 3 years ago when I was
>camped in Ouray, Colorado.  (The guy who sang the songs was mayor of Ouray
>for a number of years.)  This contains the most recently redone versions
>of some of C.W.'s most famous songs like "Wolf Creek Pass","The Silverton",
>"Convoy", "Aurora Borealis", and "Columbine".  Doesn't have another one of my
>favorites, "Classified Ad", but I've got that on another CD.
>
>(you remember that one? went sumpthin like,  
>"I was thumbin' through the want ads in the Shelby county tribune, when
>this classified advertisement caught my eye, it said 'take immediate delivery
>on this '57 Chevrolet half ton pickup truck, will sell or swap for a hide-a-bed
>and thirty-nine bucks, call 1-4-0 ring 2 and ask for Bob' ......  )
>

And did you know that C.W. McCall got smacked upside the head, discovered
New Age Music, and went on to create Mannheim Steamroller????

>Sorry Gerry, no VW content yet.  Well, here's a little.
>

Sorry again, Gerry, still no VW content, but Mannheim IS in Germany, no?

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