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and (doggone it, alzheimer's moment) what's the song Tommy Lee Jones puts on the 8-track when they're driving upside down in MIB?

Wouldn't that be the Chuck Berry great,"Promised Land",that goes "Hello operator,give me Norfolk,Virginian,Tidewater xx09. Tell the folks back home it's the promised land a-calling,and the poor boy's on the line."? One of THE greatest songs in rock and roll history! Forget all that Little Richard "I invented R&R" and Elvis,"the King of R&R" crap. The REAL inventors and kings of rock and roll were Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly.

Believe it or not,but I saw the Eagles in Norfolk,Va in the early 70's,and when they came back on stage to do their encore,they opened with "Promised Land". The place exploded! Man,they went back to the roots,and rocked the place out for the next hour! It was the first reserved seat concert I ever went to,and people were ripping the seats up to throw them against the wall to make room to dance.

Oh yeah,the Eagles opening act that night was Linda Rhondstat,and she closed out her encore with "Desperado". To this day I still haven't made up my mind who does it better,her or the Eagles.

AARRRGGGHHHHH! Now you have Chuck Berry running through my head,and I gotta go try to see if I gave all my CB tapes away on my last trip to Russia,or if I have any left to listen to. Damn you!

"Left my home in Norfolk Virginia,California on my mind...."

"Saw Maybelline in her Coupe de Ville..."

"in a country shack lived a boy named Johnny B.Goode...go,go,go Johnny go..."

"mah ding-a-ling,man ding-a-ling,ah want you to play with mah ding-a-ling..." (his only number 1 song. shocking,huh?)

"Riding along in my automobile...My baby beside me at the wheel..."

I got to see Linda Ronstadt play Armadillo World Headquarters in early 70's. It was right after she'd recorded "Don't Cry Now" and before "Heart Like a Wheel" came out, but she performed some of the "Heart Like a Wheel" songs. Audience went nuts.

I also saw her on television doing a prison concert with Johnny Cash and a couple of others. When she sang Desperado they panned the audience, and all these hardened criminals were sitting there bawling like babies. They weren't faking it, either. Just sitting there looking up with tears running down their cheeks, or staring at the ground, and you could see the drops fall from their eyes.

Yeah, can't believe I left Buddy Holly off the list, especially with him being a Texas boy. Anyway, as to Desparado, I'll vote for Linda, but the Eagles do a great version. BTW, in another Alzheimer's moment, I listed Al Hirt and meant Louis Armstrong. Little embarassing. When I was living in New Orleans, they both played the Quarter a lot, and I just mind-melded the names. Thanks for the info on Promised Land.