This, my friends, is the greatest song of all time. You will not see it on VH1's Top 100 Videos of All Time. You will not hear it, Memorial Day weekend, featured in ads for appliances or on KCOK's Hot Memorial Day 500 Countdown...with Mickey Cruze, countin' down YOUR favorite hits all the way to the top, top, top, top...A video was never made for this song, and it was never in an A&R guy's bag of tricks when he came to diddle a radio station. The only machine propelling the rise of this tune were the plaid skirts covering the skinny, freckled legs of finest output DC's nunneries had to offer.
It's funny. Ten years ago, I'd be writing a eulogy to this song. It's master tapes and maybe a couple yard sale-hobo LPs would be scattered across the country; the only member of the recording session that produced the tune perhaps possessing a cassette with only a finite number of plays left on it before any semblance of the original song or tone disappear into a '78 Pinto's tape deck, but now it's digital. It's forever...
Jesus titty-f&cking christ, listen to me...it's only Passing Me By...(right click it to save it)
But it made me a god at 15...
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