I wonder how many other things I've
totally forgotten about?
I've been doing this job forever, and
during that epoch-spanning time I've done a lot of things on the air.
So I'm not surprised that I would've forgotten one or two or all of
them, something that popped to the fore last week when we played
Michael Jackson's “Black Or White” during our “Throwback
Thursday”.
Namely, it made me wonder—whatever
happened to the parody version of the song I did when it first came
out?
Why did I do a parody version of it,
you ask? Well, I answer, because when we received the CD single of
the song there was an instrumental version of it, and because Michael
Jackson was, you know, Michael Jackson, I wrote lyrics for a tune
called “Me or Mike”, in which Mr. Jackson wasn't sure if he were
himself or an evil version of himself called “Mike”.
Sadly, I think we learned the answer to
that a few years later.
I remember nothing about the song
except the title and the first two lines--
“My best friend Bubbles told me I was
a flake
I didn't listen that was my big
mistake”
And that's it. I know I put it
together and I aired it a bunch when the song was popular, but
whatever happened to it after that, I have no idea. If the master
tape of it still existed, I'm guessing it was tossed out when we
moved the station to Marquette. I know it was done on a four track
recorder, so even if the master still existed I would have no way to
play it. After all, audio tape recording like that is, what? Two or
three generations of recording medium old?
Yes, I'm a dinosaur. What's your
point?
How many more things like that that
I've totally forgotten were tossed aside, either physically or
mentally? I have no idea. I know that there must be a lot. But
maybe, just maybe, that could be taken as a good thing. If nothing
else, maybe that means that I've had such a fun and creatively
fulfilling career that I can't even remember all the cool stuff I've
done. I know that every so often I see someone who mentioned a
remote I did or a contest they won, and I don't recall it at all.
But like I said, maybe that's a good thing. If nothing else, it
means that I've been a lucky person in my chosen field.
Even if I've forgotten half of what
I've done.
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