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...cafeteria line remembers them well: the lunch ladies. They may be warmhearted, but their food is not always so hot. The Roy Rogers hamburger chain thought it would be a good idea to conjure up that memory with commercials featuring lunch ladies who dish up dismal casseroles to the tune of See You in September. The ads remind students to take advantage of their free time to snack on the company's fast food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Advertising: Only Kidding, Lunch Ladies! | 9/3/1990 | See Source »

Perhaps the greatest testament to O-Positive's eclectic embrace of diverse musical genres is "Innernational" --a dance tune with a synthesizer-driven baseline that exposes most current dance songs for the amateur efforts that they are. The song--which Herlihy described in concert as "a political song that's not about parties" --engages Barbato in an all-out trumpet-synth jam which is nothing less than uplifting. "It isnt just `Do me baby, take off your clothes'," Herlihy says, comparing his song, which includes the line "No Das Kapital," to current dance hits. "I don't want...

Author: By Brian R. Hecht, | Title: On the Fringes of Pop With O-Positive | 8/17/1990 | See Source »

...Philadelphia, WMGK-FM aired "I Am Iraq," to the tune of Simon and Garfunkel's "I Am A Rock," on its show "Harvey in the Morning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pop Song Parodies Mock Hussein | 8/17/1990 | See Source »

WTIC-FM in Hartford, Conn., played "Blame it on Hussein" to the tune of Milli Vanilli's "Blame it on the Rain...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pop Song Parodies Mock Hussein | 8/17/1990 | See Source »

...that kind of talk on top of a heavy riff and it could be another slick M.C. Hammer rap, the kind of bouncy, braggadocian tune that repeatedly hooked the top single spot for U Can't Touch This. Hammer, 27, is living a dream: superstardom in a flash; private jet between gigs; movie offers; and a record label, Bust It Management Productions, to call his own. And all this by being the first performer to forge an alliance between two warring camps: the poppers and the rappers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: M.C. Hammer: U Can't Touch Him | 8/13/1990 | See Source »

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