Word: purtanical
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...Phoney tunes," as they are called, seem to have originated in the Detroit area about five months ago when Kenneth Ascher, 20, a pre-med student at Eastern Michigan University, called WXYZ Disc Jockey Dick Purtan and said: "Listen to this." Since then, Purtan says, "people have been going crazy, calling up to play Old Folks at Home, Happy Birthday and everything else." One Detroit lawyer is being driven to distraction, Purtan says, because his phone number corresponds to the hallowed "shave and a haircut, two bits" refrain...
...from the neck up-like a flattened casaba melon. After more than a month of heavy sales promotion, the song has already sold 700,000 copies, and has a firm web-hold on Top 40 radio audiences from coast to coast. In Detroit, for example, WXYZ's Dick Purtan plays it regularly during "tubby time" for kids and adults alike, who seem unable to resist its splash-splash counterpoint, quack-quack obbligato, and cheerful pop-style parody of the 1930s Hit Parade...
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