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Subject: Serendipity (Again!) From: Dave the Gnome Date: 25 Oct 01 - 05:36 PM Well. One of the strange coincidences. Listening to BBC radio 2 last night and picked up the country program. Travis Tripp was being interviwed and, one after the other, two stories came out. The first was how he got to write 'Here's a quarter, call someone who cares'. Which I had never heard before but loved both for the concept and humour. The second was how he was instrumental in getting the Eagles back together when he released the first single from an album of Eagles covers. Now then. I was in Bolton town centre today. Somewhere I rarely go. Looking in a shop that was displaying Halloween novelties and all sorts of other joke items. I spotted a badge (button for those in the US!) with the legend 'Here's a quarter, call someone who cares'. Just as I was thinking of buying it, over the speakers, usualy devoted to Muzac, came the strains of 'Welcome to the Hotel California...' Weird or what? Did I but the badge/button? Did I buggery. To scary for me. Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: Kim C Date: 25 Oct 01 - 05:51 PM The irony is, now it's a quarter and a dime to make a pay phone call in the US. ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: SharonA Date: 25 Oct 01 - 06:00 PM Yeah... remember the old Jim Croce song, "Operator"? ("You can keep the dime...") Travis Tritt got the Eagles back together? Didn't know that. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: Amos Date: 25 Oct 01 - 06:53 PM Before Croce was old enough to sing there was a piece of vaudeville humor that ran like this. I am sure Kendall fell off his dinosaur laughing the first time he heard it. It brings back images of old Bakelite handsets ensconced in wooden cabinets in the back of the soda fountain shoppe, with sliding accordion doors and phone calls for 5 cents. "Can I borrow a nickel? I have to call a friend!" "Sure -- matter o' fact here's a dime -- call both of them!!" Regards, A. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: GUEST,MudWeasel Date: 25 Oct 01 - 07:10 PM 35 cents! You;ve got it good! Most of the SF Bay Area is now charging 50 cents. (And when I was a wee lad, we 'ad to live in a 'ole in the middle of the road...) -MudWeasel |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: Art Thieme Date: 25 Oct 01 - 09:44 PM For a couple of decades before Garth made a hit of it, I was singing:
Papa loved mama, I got it from a bio of Carl Sandberg, the poet, who said that it was thw world's shortest ballad ! I would stick that verse (humorously, I hoped) into every song in which it scanned. I did it several years in a row with a jews harp in the middle of songs like "Cotton Eyed Joe" etc. at the big festival in Winfield, Kansas. Then---years later----I heard G. Brooks say he'd been at some of those festivals in those years. I ain't insinuating nothin' folks. It's just that some things just happen. No rhyme or reason to it. I might could take it to be cosmic or an epiphenistic moment----but, no, I suspect it was just something that went down---and is, now, maybe worth mentioning 'cause it is rather interesting. ;-) Art Thieme |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: Art Thieme Date: 25 Oct 01 - 09:48 PM sorry 'bout all that yelling people. Forgot to turn off th "B". Art It was the "I" that was messing up your "B". Got 'em. --JoeClone |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: Jeri Date: 25 Oct 01 - 10:28 PM I think the story of Travis Tritt and the Eagles goes something like...he asked them to back him up on his recording, but didn't tell them the others were coming. They came, they played, and I guess the rest is history. (Note: I just heard that - could be wrong.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: DougR Date: 25 Oct 01 - 10:47 PM Well, you said it Jeri, so it's going into the archive. Whenever the question of Travis Tritt's connection to the Eagles arises, somebody is going to say, "Well, I heard that Jeri said ..." :>) DougR |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: Peg Date: 26 Oct 01 - 12:26 AM Boston has just this week upped the rates on all Verizon pay phones to 50 cents. Greedy bastards.
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: Ebbie Date: 26 Oct 01 - 12:30 AM Until two years ago, Juneau's pay phones were still 10 cents. Then they tried 35 cents- gave it up and went down to 25. We're an independent lot. Ebbie |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: Dave the Gnome Date: 26 Oct 01 - 01:48 PM I mis-heard the name I guess:-( The story Tavis Tritt tells is that he had a song on an album of Eagles covers. The record company wanted to release it as the first single off the album. Travis agreed but insisted that the video was to be something special and suggested that the Eagles featured on it. The executives laughed and said that the Eagles would never get back together but Travis insisted - and low and behold, 14 years after thay had split up, they got back together as a one-off to make the video. And stayed! He also said that the jam session thay had afterwards was something he will remember the rest of his life. I bet! Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: Kim C Date: 26 Oct 01 - 01:57 PM I would imagine that pay phones are not taking in as much money as they once did. And that Travis Tritt has an overblown sense of his own importance. |
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Subject: RE: BS: Serendipity (Again!) From: DougR Date: 26 Oct 01 - 07:26 PM Kim C: I think you're right. Cell phones have just about put pay phones out of business. Sorry Peg, prices are probably going even higher. DougR |