Like #63,
I vividly remember the first time I heard this one. In April of 1992, the annual SUGI conference was in Honolulu, for the first (and probably only) time. Since
I wasn’t sure I’d get over there again, I went over a few days early and rented
a car so I could do some sightseeing.
Oahu has
two parallel highways that go from Honolulu across to Kailua on the other side
of the island. Since there’s a mountain range in between, a portion of each
highway goes through a tunnel. I first heard “Tennessee” on my drive between
Honolulu and Kailua – can’t quite recall whether it was on the way over or the
way back, but I think I just barely heard the end before getting to one of the
tunnels.
Probably
not a lot of visitors to Hawaii would list “listening to the radio” as one of
his/her highlights, but I was fortunate to be over there while the legendary “Radio
Free Hawaii” was on the air. As a web site dedicated to the station put it: “Radio
Free Hawaii's claim to fame was that its programming was determined by weekly
votes submitted to the station by listeners from all over the state using a
ballot system. … The music represented by listener votes spanned all genres...
rap, pop, rock, alternative, country, Hawaiian, jazz, classical, ska and more.”
In addition to Arrested Development, I remember hearing tracks by House of Pain
and Cypress Hill. Topping the listener request chart, however, was The
Partridge Family’s “Point Me in the Direction of Albuquerque”. It’s hard to get
more eclectic than that.
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