XPost: rec.music.dementia   
   From: fj4050@verizon.net   
      
   In my opinion, every Dr. D site is awesome, regardless of grammatical   
   errors, etc.   
      
   Frank   
   Lifelong Dementite   
      
   "Jeff Morris" wrote in message   
   news:d51esn$i5b$1@rainier.uits.indiana.edu...   
   > George Orwell wrote:   
   > >WHAT'S THE POINT OF KEEPING AN ARCHIVE OF SONGS IF   
   > >EITHER THE TITLE OF GROUP IS INCORRECT!   
   > >[...]   
   > >1980 - Take Your Brain Out For A Walk - Tagmamics (last played on   
   1980-10-   
   > >19)   
   > >   
   > >THE NAME OF THIS GROUP IS THE TAGMEMICS NOT TAGMAMICS^^^^^^   
   >   
   > Have you ever heard of typos?   
   >   
   > Wayne and David had this incorrect because it was incorrect on my site.   
   > The reason it was incorrect on my site is because that's how it was typed   
   > on the cue sheet that Westwood One sent out to radio stations that week.   
   > Those cue sheets are notorious for spelling errors, so this doesn't   
   surprise   
   > me.   
   >   
   > Normally the cue sheets were typed up by someone based on a typed list   
   that   
   > Dr. Demento brought with him to the studio. However, in this particular   
   > case, he didn't have the songs for the Boogie Boy interview on his typed   
   > copy. I'm assuming he didn't know in advance what would be played. So   
   > it could be that the engineer or someone else kept track of it for the   
   > Westwood One cue sheet, and never saw the record itself, thus leading to   
   > this spelling error.   
   >   
   > I have said many times that the lists on my web site (which are the source   
   > for all the other web sites that have forms of playlist archives) are not   
   > 100% accurate or consistent. I'm well aware of this, and am in the   
   process   
   > of making them moreso. I am updating them constantly with new information   
   > (such as this, which I have now updated). It's a continual evolution. I   
   > don't have any control over the other web sites which have made use of my   
   > information, so they are likely to get out of date with my "master"   
   copies.   
   >   
   > So, anyway, this has been fixed at the source. Wayne and David will no   
   > doubt see your message and fix their copies too.   
   >   
   > I appreciate you pointing this out, but I don't appreciate your attitude.   
   > I had no intention to misspell the band's name, it was just the best   
   > information I had at the time, and it was more important for me to get the   
   > information out there than to spend time verifying the spelling of every   
   > item on every playlist. (I do intend to go back and do that though, but   
   > it may take the rest of my life.)   
   >   
   > So, if you find an error in the future, an attitude of helpfulness rather   
   > than outrage would be recommended.   
      
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