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Pretenders to pull Limbaugh theme song?

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Heart made efforts to stop McCain/Palin from using the song "Barricuda" as Palin's theme song, Bruce Hornsby pressures Hannity to stop using "The way it is..." piano music from his theme song, and the writer of "Independence Day" donates some of the royalties to "Move On.org" Will Hines of the Pretenders do the same? or do they need the money?
 
mred said:
Heart made efforts to stop McCain/Palin from using the song "Barricuda" as Palin's theme song, Bruce Hornsby pressures Hannity to stop using "The way it is..." piano music from his theme song, and the writer of "Independence Day" donates some of the royalties to "Move On.org" Will Hines of the Pretenders do the same? or do they need the money?
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the pretenders got on rush's case 6 or 7 years ago over the the hour opener. rush didn't cave then and i guess hines & co. couldn't do anything about it legally.
 
From Wikipedia:

"Briefly in 1999, Limbaugh was forced to suspend playing the song while negotiating with the attorneys of the song's writer, Chrissie Hynde. She decided to allow Limbaugh to use it, with Limbaugh paying her approximately $500,000/year which she donates to the animal rights organization PETA. Hynde explained that she doesn't agree with Limbaugh but her parents are big fans."
 
jh said:
From Wikipedia:

"Briefly in 1999, Limbaugh was forced to suspend playing the song while negotiating with the attorneys of the song's writer, Chrissie Hynde. She decided to allow Limbaugh to use it, with Limbaugh paying her approximately $500,000/year which she donates to the animal rights organization PETA. Hynde explained that she doesn't agree with Limbaugh but her parents are big fans."
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hmmmm. hard to believe anyone--including el rushbo--is paying half a mil per year to peta for a bumper. i don't know for sure, but that sounds more myth than truth.
 
Everything in this thread is a funny except landtuna's joke.
 
I've been tired of "My City was Gone" a long time now. It was a good song, till it got massively burned out by Rush.
I have the picture sleeve 45 with "Back on the Chain Gang", which I bought new.

I believe the theme music from the movie "Mystery Island" or "Journey to the Center of the Earth" would be good choices for Rush.
They sound larger than life, they boom, they thunder, and suggest urgency. What more could Rush want?
 
TalkHead said:
jh said:
From Wikipedia:

"Briefly in 1999, Limbaugh was forced to suspend playing the song while negotiating with the attorneys of the song's writer, Chrissie Hynde. She decided to allow Limbaugh to use it, with Limbaugh paying her approximately $500,000/year which she donates to the animal rights organization PETA. Hynde explained that she doesn't agree with Limbaugh but her parents are big fans."
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hmmmm. hard to believe anyone--including el rushbo--is paying half a mil per year to peta for a bumper. i don't know for sure, but that sounds more myth than truth.
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If it's true - Rush can afford it.
 
thanks - it was Hynde not Hines (I was thinking of John Kerry's wife), She always rags on her fans about "eating hamburgers" at concerts.

Rush sends all that money to a women who doesn't shave her underarms, no wonder we ar turning into France.
 
Well Rush is getting irreverent over the years. If he can't get McCain/Caribou Barbie elected and he is on over 600 stations then his time is over. Then I don't listen to someone who had an Oxycontin addiction and got a slap on the wrist for doctor shopping.
 
I heard a media pundit describe him as a "big, fat wrecking ball" this morning. I agree.

Orson Welles without the humor.
 
Yes, yes, Rush sucks. Rush is irrelevant. So irrelevant that the media hyperventilates over everything he says and there are people posting threads like this with the headline "Pretenders to pull Limbaugh theme song?" when no one is saying that is in the works.

For an irrelevant drugged up idiot he sure has you paying attention.
 
Actually....not. I happened to catch the CPAC news clip on HLN this morning. Since I don't watch/listen to El Rushbo I had seen only older pictures of him....apparently before he became Pizza the Hutt. To say I was astonished watching his six chins flapping away would be an understatement.

If this is the best the Republicans can do for a spokesman they are in more trouble than they can possibly imagine. Even the RNC chairman is on his case now.

BTW, the original subject WAS a question and, as such, is always relevant.

Sorry for the hijack. Now back to your regularily schedule argu.....er, discussion. ;D
 
landtuna said:
Actually....not. I happened to catch the CPAC news clip on HLN this morning. Since I don't watch/listen to El Rushbo I had seen only older pictures of him....apparently before he became Pizza the Hutt. To say I was astonished watching his six chins flapping away would be an understatement.

If this is the best the Republicans can do for a spokesman they are in more trouble than they can possibly imagine. Even the RNC chairman is on his case now.

BTW, the original subject WAS a question and, as such, is always relevant.

Sorry for the hijack. Now back to your regularily schedule argu.....er, discussion. ;D
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Yeah and I am not following this thread either, I just stumbled by it.
 
Rush has been using "My City Was Gone" since his days as a local host in Sacramento, circa 1986 or so. Same riff, same part of the song you hear now. I get the idea that it wasn't a conscious choice, but just music they found in a production room or something.

Yes, I'm pretty sure that PETA story is true...I remember it from when it was in the news originally. As far as I have heard, there's still an agreement.
 
landtuna said:
I heard a media pundit describe him as a "big, fat wrecking ball" this morning. I agree.

Orson Welles without the humor.
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...Welles panicked the country with legitimate talent. Limbaugh panics the country with legitimate ignorance...
 
OhioMediaWatch said:
Rush has been using "My City Was Gone" since his days as a local host in Sacramento, circa 1986 or so. Same riff, same part of the song you hear now. I get the idea that it wasn't a conscious choice, but just music they found in a production room or something.
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...somewhat like Jerrt Bott at WISN Milwaukee using a sloppily-edited version of Tom Robinson's "2-4-6-8- Motorway" for the years he was (is he still?) on. Never mind the fact that a well-established LGBT activist would ever want his music applied to homophobic radio shows...
 
What happened to your pieces on NOVA-M Ultima
 
Other Talk-Show Hosts Who Use Hit Songs As Theme Songs

The Neal Boortz Program-"The Heart Of Rock'n Roll" by Huey Lewis & The News

The Clark Howard Show-"She Drives Me Crazy" by Fine Young Cannibals

The Dave Ramsey Show- "Baker Street" (Opening) Group Unknown; "Money" (Closing)
by Pink Floyd (Also used as a background tune in Clark Howard's Money Minute Segments on WSB-AM 750 here in Atlanta).

The Ilyce Glink Show-(Sundays locally here in Atlanta News-Talk 750 WSB) "I Wanna Be Rich" by The Callaways (Now Discontinued).

Note: Most stations also use "My City Is Gone" at the start of the daily Rush Limbaugh "Morning Updates" segments as well.
 
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