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...National Convention with a keynote speech, immediately agreed that Barkley should be the candidate for Vice President. During the 1948 campaign Barkley trouped through 36 states (230 speeches), spreading a subtle reminder that the voters should be grateful for past Democratic favors. His favorite story was woven around Abron McCoy, his 299-lb. Negro hired man. Allegedly. Abron told Barkley he was going to vote for Dewey. "Why?" asked Barkley. "Well, suh," said Abron, "I voted Republican in '40 and '44 and I ain't never had it so good...
...Greatest Show on Earth is an uncomfortable assemblage of Ringling Brothers, the March of Time, and John's Other Wife. The circus parts are as good as the real McCoy from a six buck seat, the documentary part aims to prove the circus is a basic industry, and the rest is a powerful emetic...
...week's end, listeners were still wondering about McCoy's "import," unaware that the main message of the song-played front-to-back...
Says Jockey McCoy: "The most popular tune I've ever introduced...
...none of these. It is, in fact, the work of an advertising agency copywriter named Walter Kranz. He composed a singing commercial for a Denver clothing store, tape-recorded it, accidentally played it backward. It sounded better that way. Kranz made a transcription, took it to McCoy, and McCoy...