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   From: dalton@nfld.com   
      
   On Jun 1, 2022, David Samuel Barr wrote   
   (in article):   
      
   > On 5/31/2022 2:21 PM, James Fabiano wrote:   
   > > Hello. I wondered if anyone could help me here. On All In The Family, the   
   > > Bunkers always   
   > > sing about "Boydie Wayglinn Miller played songs that made the hit parade."   
   > > Who is this   
   > > BWM and what did he/she sing? Or is it "Boyd Ewayglinn Miller?"   
   >   
   > I know this is probably a troll but   
   > on the slight chance it's a real   
   > question, the lyrics [written by   
   > Lee Adams] are (including the   
   > penultimate line which many people   
   > didn't get and so after the first   
   > season the actors made a point of   
   > singing more slowly and clearly):   
   >   
   > "Boy, the way Glenn Miller played   
   > songs that made The Hit Parade.   
   > Guys like us we had it made.   
   > Those were the days.   
   >   
   > And you knew who you were then,   
   > girls were girls and men were men.   
   > Mister, we could use a man   
   > like Herbert Hoover again.   
   >   
   > Didn't need no welfare state,   
   > everybody pulled his weight.   
   > Gee our old LaSalle ran great.   
   > Those were the days."   
   >   
   > [And if you're too young to know   
   > who Glenn Miller, Herbert Hoover   
   > and what the Buick LaSalle were,   
   > that's what the internet is for.]   
      
   Ha, good one.   
      
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