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Re: 10 May 2010: 1980
« Reply #30 on: May 10, 2010, 05:14:15 PM »
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Re: 10 May 2010: 1980
« Reply #31 on: May 10, 2010, 05:15:22 PM »
oops -- Jim Carroll ruins my 10-way tie.  WOS. Hated it then, hate it now.

Exactly how I feal about "Ah Leah!"
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Re: 10 May 2010: 1980
« Reply #32 on: May 10, 2010, 06:02:52 PM »
oops -- Jim Carroll ruins my 10-way tie.  WOS. Hated it then, hate it now.
I always wondered if "Drano" was a nickname for some drug.  Research hasn't turned up anything, but nobody would consume actual Drano, outside of "Heathers", right?

The father of one of my brother's high school friends killed himself by drinking Drano.  Awful way to go.
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Re: 10 May 2010: 1980
« Reply #33 on: May 10, 2010, 07:53:59 PM »
oops -- Jim Carroll ruins my 10-way tie.  WOS. Hated it then, hate it now.
I always wondered if "Drano" was a nickname for some drug.  Research hasn't turned up anything, but nobody would consume actual Drano, outside of "Heathers", right?

The father of one of my brother's high school friends killed himself by drinking Drano.  Awful way to go.

Indeed, I meant to mention this morning that it is a pretty well-known way of suicide that was (sadly) all the rage at one time. And horribly painful. And why one would do it on his wedding night, as the guy in the song did, is even more disturbing.
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Re: 10 May 2010: 1980
« Reply #34 on: May 10, 2010, 10:39:09 PM »
oops -- Jim Carroll ruins my 10-way tie.  WOS. Hated it then, hate it now.
I always wondered if "Drano" was a nickname for some drug.  Research hasn't turned up anything, but nobody would consume actual Drano, outside of "Heathers", right?

The father of one of my brother's high school friends killed himself by drinking Drano.  Awful way to go.

I saw an episode of 20/20 (is this show still on?) about this lady who does horrible things to herself to make people feel sorry for her.  It showed her drinking Drano  :-X 

Did this song get re-released in ~1995?  Hits 106 definitely had this on their playlist then because everybody kept on voting for it on the Top 9 at 9. (And it was indeed the Jim Carroll band version.)

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Re: 10 May 2010: 1980
« Reply #35 on: May 11, 2010, 10:08:18 AM »
Did this song get re-released in ~1995?  Hits 106 definitely had this on their playlist then because everybody kept on voting for it on the Top 9 at 9. (And it was indeed the Jim Carroll band version.)

I think that was when Leo DiCaprio's Basketball Diaries movie came out, reinvigorating interest in Carroll and the song.
“The choir of children sing their song.  They've practiced all year long.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.  Ding dong.”