NP Re: from canada, with love.......

[no fun]

Perhaps inappropriate to say so, but my impression was that "hit single" was
something of a sardonic shot at the author of the text, one Gordon Sinclair.
It was actually a radio commentary on CFRB in Toronto, taped for TV as well
for some reason.  Our Gord was stuffy codger, older than dirt, a sort of
Canadian edition of Orin Hatch (sp?) who had the rapt attention of every
shut in retiree in Toronto who couldn't fix the tuning knob on their radios.
But we loved 'im anyway.  Well, my grandparents did anyway.

----- Original Message -----
From: davemarc <davemarc at panix.com>
To: Pynchlist <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Saturday, September 15, 2001 11:58 PM
Subject: NP Re: from canada, with love.......


> Just to make it perfectly clear, the text ended up on a hit single during
> the Seventies, with the music from The Star-Spangled Banner or some such
> tune in the background....
>
> d.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Murthy Yenamandra <yenamand at cs.umn.edu>
>
> > calbert wrote:
> > > This, from a Canadian newspaper, is worth sharing.
> > >> America: The Good Neighbor [...]
> >
> > It's worth noting, for the sake of context, that this appears to be a
> > radio broadcast delivered in 1973, in reaction to the beating taken by
> > the US dollar and the american economy in world markets (in the wake of
> > vietnam). Here is the text of the broadcast with a link to the full
> > story behind it:
> >
> > http://www.tysknews.com/Depts/Our_Culture/americans.htm
> >
>
>
>