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

Jonathan Lighter wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Tue Mar 15 11:31:19 UTC 2022


That was about the time (1971-72) that I saw it as a graffito at NYU..

JL

On Mon, Mar 14, 2022 at 1:00 PM Bill Mullins <amcombill at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> 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 . . .
>
>
> >
> > ----
> >
> > 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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