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From: seeger@manatee.cis.ufl.edu (F. L. Charles Seeger III)
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Subject: Re: What song contains the phrase "WYSIWYG"?
Summary: Badfinger Magic Christian
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Date: 27 Dec 89 23:27:39 GMT
References: <351@fwi.uva.nl> <1TvfrT#4xr7gM=eric@snark.uu.net> <1333@ukc>
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In article <1333@ukc> pc@ukc.ac.uk (R.P.A.Collinson) writes:
|In article <1TvfrT#4xr7gM=eric@snark.uu.net> eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
|>
|	If you want it / here it is, come and get it
|	But you better hurry 'cause it's going fast
|	If you want it / here it is, come and get it
|	But you better hurry 'cause it may not last
|	Did I hear you say that there must be a catch?
|	What was it they said about a fool and his money...
|
|Was this not a theme song from a film at the time. Was it the Michael Caine
|one with the minis and the robbery in Italy (Venice??)? I forget the title.

As I wrote to Eric via Email:
| That's from the Magic Christian soundtrack album (what? you haven't seen the
| movie with Peter Sellers and Ringo Starr?).  I would have to check the album
| to be sure of the song title.  The group broke up in '75 (I believe) after
| Pete Ham committed suicide.  The remnants reunited about '79 and did a rather
| disco-y album.  They played at a club here in Gaineville a couple of years
| ago, apparently releasing an album that I've never seen (one of their new
| songs was "Vampire Wedding").  I sure hope their old stuff will come out
| on CD sometime.  Pete was the guitarist backing up George Harrison in the
| Concert for Bangladesh film, and he was the real talent in the group.  Joey
| Molland isn't a bad performer, but he's not is the same league as a writer.
| They were know as the only officially (by the Beatles themselves) sanctioned
| Beatles rip-off group, but I liked them a lot.
| 
| BTW, I don't recall the phrase "what you see is what you get" being in that
| song.  Could be wrong, though.

Follow ups to rec.music.misc or rec.arts.movies, please.

Chuck

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