Song Of the Day: July 1, 2005
The quest for this 45 by Boston's Tweeds was a formative collector story similar to that of "Mary's Got Her Eye On Me." After hearing it on a ROIR cassette called Trouser Press Presents the Best Of America Underground (CD re-issue please!) in high school, I became obsessed with tracking it down, a task that was much, much more difficult in the days before the internet. I did manage to find a couple of copies of the re-recorded version on Eat Records; it is more common but decidedly inferior. I finally managed to secure a copy from an editor of The Bob in the mid-nineties. It set me back $35, which was far more than I'd ever paid for a 45 at that point. (Boy, the things I couldn't have forseen.) You can probably score one for about half that now on eBay. Not that I've ever regretted buying it for a second.


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