Thanks for the Buggy Ride
As the Internet starts to dominate life, there's a backlash and an attempt to revive the old way.
Just like 100 years ago.
See if you can listen to this 55 second song from 1925. The clip is recorded in Real.
Here's the lyrics:
"Thanks for the buggy ride. I had a wonderful time. No smell of gasoline. Just an old fashioned team. It was a wonderful treat. To hear the patter of horses feet. I was used to riding in a big limosine. But buggy ridin lovin sure beats any machine. Now although I lost my pride, Thanks for the buggy ride. I had a wonderful time."
An 80 year old radio announcer, Miner Hayward, called me from Winter, Wisconsin, to say he had researched this song and found out that the Ford Motor Company didn't want the composer, Jules Buffano, to release "Thanks for the Buggy Ride," and had a big fight with him over it. So even by 1925 still some resentment, and sensitivity, to the auto.
Posted by: William Draves | January 15, 2006 at 08:34 PM