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[clayhornik]

Was listening to Basic Black on CBC today... the last show ever. They had a segment of the show called "The Hum Line" - callers would call up with half and quarter remembered songs and Arthur Black and company would identify them. Today they went over their favourite songs and the number one song was something called "The Little Blue Man". Apparently it was quite a novelty in 1958 - in the top 20 for 16 weeks. My grandmother used to sing bits from it to me as a child and for oh, twenty or so years I haven't given it a second thought til today.
It's not a cute song. What ever those people were smoking in the fifties, I'm amazed they thought it "cute". It's an ode to obsession, and rejection, and love and loss.
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