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<div>At 1:29 AM -0500 11/30/04, joeallonby wrote:</div>
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<blockquote>The specific song that Pynchon alludes to here is likely
"Leader of the Pack" (1964), which contains the lines:<br>
<blockquote>My folks were always putting him down (down, down)<br>
They said he came from the wrong side of town<br>
(whatcha mean when ya say that he came from the wrong side of
town?)<br>
They told me he was bad<br>
But I knew he was sad<br>
That's why I fell for (the leader of the pack)<br>
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<blockquote>http://www.rockabilly.nl/lyrics2/l0053.htm</blockquote>
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<div>A big favorite. It came out the summer I was 16 and moving to
California.</div>
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<div>Bekah</div>
<div>now humming "duke of earl"</div>
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