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

[Jonathan Lighter]

Bill,
 https://archive.org/details/lp_hanging-in-there_hudson-landry/disc1/01.01.+Ajax+Liquor+Store.mp3
<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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