Last year, in a post about That Thing You Do!
Someone who doesn’t know the thrill (and perhaps rebellion) of hearing their favorite song come on the radio could not have created the movie’s most ecstatic scene: the first time “That Thing You Do!” plays on the local radio station.
"But Xmastime", you say in the voice of Craig “Ironhead” Heyward from those soap commercials (RIP), “didn't this very thing happen to you?"
Tonight I came home, flipped on tv and
under my YouTube "you should watch" thing there was a Beatles doc, one
I've probably seen 1000x. The cover for A Hard Day's Night
featured prominently in the title sequence and suddenly I thought of a
cd version of an ep I put out in 1996. I only made a few, to give to
radio stations such as the college station at Ole Miss. Honestly, I'd
forgotten about it for years/decades. Watching the Beatles doc I
laughed, thinking "that was a pretty funny cover." And then an hour
later, a Facebook message from Ted Gainey, an Ole Miss music legend who
was a DJ at the station at the time sent me this fucking picture.
How freaky is that time? Wtf. He was also the first (and most like only) person who ever played one of my songs on the radio; suddenly one day I turned on the radio and he was playing Washington Bullets from the record. Of course I freaked the fuck out like anyone else who's ever experienced such a thing. I super-smoothly called the station and he answered, and I coolly asked say, who is this great-sounding band? He said it was a local guy, "I think he works at the Sir Speedy."
What a great freaky surprise to my day, and a great memory :)
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