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Good to hear you back Brian. I only got half way through the show on the way to work today but I had to let you know that the Manic Street Preachers are not from ‘London, England’ as you said. They are in fact famously and passionately Welsh. It probably won’t mean anything to most of your listeners but the Manics themselves wouldn’t be happy.
They are a great live band and I saw them play a few times in the 90’s when they moved succesfully from small venues to large arenas and stadiums. It’s interesting in the context of the song you played that they had been a relatively successful almost cult band in the early ’90s and only became very succesful in the UK with the release of the album ‘Everything Must Go’ after the apparent suicide (no body was ever found) of one of their founder members and principal songwriter, Richey Edwards. The band continued as a 3 piece and were one of the biggest acts in the UK in the period 1996-2001.
About the exclamation point: You’re forgetting !!! (pronounced with any three repetitive sounds – like chk chk chk). You can’t beat that when it comes to exclamation points.
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Re the cover of the song “Open Up Your Heart and Let The Sun Shine In” from a Flintstones episode — the song actually dates back farther than that. The original recording was by some group called the Cowboy Church Sunday School and was a minor hit back in 1955. I don’t know if the version in the Flintstones episode was a cover (a re-recording) or if they just used the CCSS version straight.
Now let’s hear EEP OP ORK by the Scientific Americans, released as a 45 around 1980 — a cover of a song used in an episode of the Jetsons!!