TPPM (9): The Shangri-Las

[Bekah]

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




A big favorite. It came out the summer I was 16 and moving to California.


Bekah
now humming "duke of earl"
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