skippy the bush kangaroo: a boy and a girl...maybe an aluminum cat

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

a boy and a girl...maybe an aluminum cat

for more than thirty years i have been wondering about an obscure song i heard just a couple of times when i was an undergrad. my inquiries drew blank looks from my music-loving friends. even the cool ones had never heard of robots for ronnie. some of them mocked me for it. mocked me! the man who owned a copy of dust's hard attack (until i sold it to a used book and album store last year because we were getting rid of all of our vinyl and i figured it wasn't going to go up in price beyond where it was--they paid me $8 for the re-issue, which was fine with me; it's not like i was gonna get rich off it or anything).

so i was listening to some iggy pop on youtube when i remembered robots for ronnie. i searched youtube and there it was. turns out it's a song by crack the sky, a group i can't remember for the life of me. and now, for your listening pleasure, i present the song that has haunted me for 30+ years...robots for ronnie:

posted by DBK at 12:11 PM |

3 Comments:

Buddy, If you lived in Baltimore you'd know all about Crack the Sky. I moved here 25 years ago and that's when I first heard of them, although I've never actually seen them!

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Anonymous, 5:14 PM PDT

We need more anonymous commenters.

Also, that album is from around 36 years ago, and I heard it probably 3 or 34 years ago, the point of which is...um...no point, actually. But I was way cool more than three decades, however much of an old fart I am now.

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