Do you have a digital sound file or at least
the lyrics to the song "Rain"? It's on my bucket list, I'm terribly curious. Irv might belt it out at the center and make all the old wimmin' sob.
![[image]](images/uploaded/2023011122152163bf34f9385dc.jpg)
I did that on a dare from a friend in a recording
studio in Nashville. I wrote the "song" in about an hour, recorded it along with the background music in another hour and registered it in another hour or so. Then laughing at my own cry baby record, I sat down and recorded another version of the Rain record making fun of myself. I had a good time with it, sold several thousand copies of it to bored housewives who like to cry and the flip side for those that like to laugh. A friend said the flip side called ALONE was the only record he knew of that had a commode flushing in it. I had a good friend Bobby Goldsboro who recorded a song named Honey and had most of the women in the U.S. crying so I did this one just to say I can do it too. Bobby's was much much better and much more professional. Mine was, well, just mine.
Not sure where that copy came from. I had a few hundred left over that I have stashed away somewhere. Most folks these days don't know what a 45 RPM is.
I had done a special record a few months before that
and made some money on it so I figured why not do something different. I wrote and recorded a "song" called Coincidence. It was about all the coincidences around Paul McCartney's supposed death and the cover up by John Lennon. One of the teen magazines published the words and that got the ball rolling. Supposedly I was the first one to cover McCartney's supposed death in a car accident and how it was covered up over a year period with a fake McCartney and covered up by John Lennon who gave us a lot of hints and subtle little tidbits about McCartney's death.
Anyway it was fun and made me a few bucks on the side. I don't know how many copies of the record it sold but it was quite a few.
![[image]](images/uploaded/2023011123121963bf4253867af.jpg)