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cooby Jun 27 2011 08:58 AM

I don’t know if anyone but me will remember this, but many years ago, I wondered aloud (forum-wise) about a song that I could remember from way back when and how could I find out what it was, etc. There were no words to it so there was no way to Google it or anything. A search of instrumentals from the 60’s turned up nothing. All I could describe about it was that it was a pretty song with banjo pickin’ and it reminded me of a Southern gentleman pecan farmer riding his horse and buggy through his fields checking his crop. Somebody suggested I call a radio station and hum part of it but I didn’t do it. Anyway this morning I heard this song coming from a co-workers cubicle! I ran over and he wasn’t there! I was dying thinking he wouldn’t get back before it was over, but someone else came along and we figured out how to show his radio and here it is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUAwqhnqSAc Imagine my surprise and dismay that is about NYC! But still, I love it and I can imagine my Colonel Sanders fantasy (not THAT kind of fantasy)

Edgy DC Jun 27 2011 10:10 AM Re: Washington Square

New Orleansy.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2011 10:31 AM Re: Washington Square

Some DJ used that theme as the intro (or maybe it was the outro) for his radio show. It was probably long-time NYC DJ Pete Fornatale who used it for a folk-oriented show he did on weekends for a time.

TheOldMole Jun 27 2011 10:40 AM Re: Washington Square

Just met Pete Fornatale Jr. on a train ride. Interesting guy. Writes a lot about sports, especially horse racing.

Edgy DC Jun 27 2011 12:56 PM Re: Washington Square

Is his column called "Mixed Feed Bag"?

RealityChuck Jun 27 2011 01:34 PM Re: Washington Square

I blogged about it a year and half ago. I like it, but I like their "Midnight in Moscow" better.

Frayed Knot Jun 27 2011 02:00 PM Re: Washington Square

TheOldMole wrote: Just met Pete Fornatale Jr. on a train ride. Interesting guy. Writes a lot about sports, especially horse racing. Big Mets fan Pete is. Also was (maybe still is) a friend of Marty Noble. IIRC, the horse racing stuff came about via one of his sons who both played the ponies and wrote about them.

cooby Jun 27 2011 04:53 PM Re: Washington Square

omg I wish I had read that then. I would have fallen right off my seat. "It's that song!" I played it about 10 times today, btw