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From: will.dockery@gmail.com (W.Dockery)
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Subject: Re: T'ain't No Big Thing, the Toll of the Bell
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2024 16:33:39 +0000
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Victor H. wrote:

> Will Dockery wrote:
>
>>>> On Tuesday, May 17, 2022 at 2:55:17 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
>>>>> Will Dockery wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> > On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 6:20:22 PM UTC-4, Zod wrote:
>>>>> >> HC wrote:
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> > On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 5:38:47 PM UTC-4, NancyGene wrote:
>>>>> >> >> On Monday, May 16, 2022 at 9:23:00 PM UTC, george...@yahoo.ca
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> >> >
>>>>> >> >> > T'ain't No Big Thing, the Toll of the Bell
>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>> >> >> > Every man's death diminishes me --
>>>>> >> >> > I call it rotten luck --
>>>>> >> >> > unless it's someone I don't like,
>>>>> >> >> > And then it's funny as fuck.
>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>> >> >> > ~ by Pastor JD and Pastor HC
>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>> >> >> >
>>>>> >> >> > (Bonus points if you can spot the other allusion in the title.)
>>>>> >> >> Mini Toll House chocolate chip cookies.
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> > Taint is a vernacular term for the perineum.
>>>>> >> https://songmeanings.com/songs/view/3458764513820550174/
>>>>> >>
>>>>> >> "T'ain't no big thing
>>>>> >> To wait for the bell to ring
>>>>> >> T'ain't no big thing
>>>>> >> The toll of the bell..." ---Roxy Music
>>>>>
>>>>> > That was the hit that made it to the radio even down here in the
>>>>> sleepy South.
>>>>>
>>>>> > Before this, Roxy Music was definitely a "cult" band down here.
>>>>> One radio station in buffalo played a lot of the new music of the day,
>>>>> it was called the "Rock And Roll Animal" fm station....
>
>>>> That radio station was the start one of the first conversations I had
>>>> with your brother back in 1983 at the Mill, when Jeffrey came into the
>>>> break room wearing a "Rock and Roll Animal" t-shirt from that radio
>>>> station.
>
>>> They played some good records on that station, every night around
>>> Midnight they would have the "album hour" where they would play an
>>> entire album....
>
>> I used to pick up an Atlanta station WRFG late at night when I lived in
>> La Grange, album hour at Midnight, good album tracks through the night.
>
>
> ROCK 97 for me...!

I remember George Dance probably mentioned this radio station.

😏