alanh@tekig1.UUCP (Alan Hooton) (07/25/84)
After driving 2500 miles across this fruited-plain country of ours, listening to the radio, I realized that there are different versions of the Heart of Rock & Roll. As near as I could tell, Heuy spent some time dubbing in the names of most major cities near the end of the song. In 6 days, I counted no less than 4 different versions. Al Hooton ...and if you love the yeast, they'll work harder.
scooper@brl-tgr.ARPA (Stephan Cooper ) (07/26/84)
The LAST city mentioned on the radio version is BALTIMORE
andrew@inmet.UUCP (07/28/84)
> After driving 2500 miles across this fruited-plain country of ours, > listening to the radio, I realized that there are different versions of the > Heart of Rock & Roll. As near as I could tell, Huey spent some time dubbing in > the names of most major cities near the end of the song. In 6 days, I counted > no less than 4 different versions. It's not a new idea. 25 years ago, a guy named Tommy Facenda recorded *28* different versions of "High School U.S.A.", each of them mentioning high schools in a different metropolitan area. Ready? They were: Virginia, NYC, NC/SC, Washington DC, Philadelphia, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Minneapolis/St. Paul, FL, Newark, Boston, Cleveland, Buffalo, Hartford CT, Nashville, IN, Chicago, New Orleans, St. Louis, AL/GA, Cincinnati, Memphis, L.A., S.F., TX, Seattle/ Portland, Denver, and OK. A sample line, from the Boston version: "They come from Somerville and Lexington South Boston and Arlington Norwood, Milton, my oh my Watertown and Brighton High Chelsea, Everett, Newton too Well I wanna do the high school bop with you!" Much more recently, Terry Cashman released a novelty single, "Talkin' Baseball" with a different version for each major league team. And wasn't there something called "My Town" within the past year or so, based on the same idea? Andrew W. Rogers ...{harpo|ihnp4|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrew