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To: CletusVanDamme
Paper Lace also had the original version of "Billy, Don't Be A Hero." It was a smash hit in the UK but Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods covered it and had the big hit with it over here in the USA.

Getting back to "The Night Chicago Died", Paper Lace sent a copy of that song to then Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, apparently thinking it was a good promotional stunt. It did not go over very well. Paper Lace got a written response back to the effect that Paper Lace should "Jump in the Chicago River, placing your heads under water three times, surfacing only twice."

So I take it Richard Daley did not like the song either.

14 posted on 08/04/2022 7:39:32 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (3,643,600 users on Truth Social)
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To: SamAdams76
Paper Lace also had the original version of "Billy, Don't Be A Hero." It was a smash hit in the UK but Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods covered it and had the big hit with it over here in the USA.

There was a lot of suckage in the 70s.

15 posted on 08/04/2022 7:40:40 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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