[Ads-l] There is no gravity, the earth sucks

[Bill Mullins]

I used the metadata from this version:

https://archive.org/details/hanginginthereso00huds?q=%22Ajax+Liquor+Store%22

But you are correct, as confirmed by Discogs:

https://www.discogs.com/master/365294-Hudson-And-Landry-Hanging-In-There

And Billboard mentions it as a "new release" in their Mar 20, 1971 issue.

Another reminder to always confirm the metadata . . .


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>
> Bill,
>  https://archive.org/details/lp_hanging-in-there_hudson-
> landry/disc1/01.01.+Ajax+Liquor+Store.mp3
> gives a 1971 date.
>
> That, to me, is more consistent with "your acapella head" and "earth sucks"
> (and possibly "hang in there")  than a date of 1960.
>
> JL
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 11:35 AM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Without disparaging Wilson's memory, here is a documented cite:
> >
> > 1960 Hudson & Landry Hanging in There​ Dore Records LP-324 [liner
> > notes, back of the album cover]
> >
> > Landry also writes tone poems for your acapella head: YOU WERE NEVER
> > LOVELIER, AND I THINK IT'S A SHAME; THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS GRAVITY
> > -- THE EARTH SUCKS; IV'E FALLEN INTO SOMETHING AND I HOPE IT'S LOVE;
> > THE ONLY THING I HATE WORSE THAN BIGOTRY IS MINORITY GROUPS; and
> THE
> > BOTTOM'S DROPPED OUT OF EVERYTHING BUT YOU.
> >
> >
> > > Re:  Undocumentable Army graffito
> > >
> > > Seen in November, 1959, written in pencil on the outside wall of one
> > > of
> > the
> > > mess halls at the now-defunct Fort Devens, Massachusetts:
> > > "There is no gravity / The earth sucks."
> > >
> >


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