A song was a production of IHurt Radio.

When a song just hits you, it's a powerful thing.

But what if this song that you just discovered and can't get enough of was a mystery?

You don't know who wrote it.

You don't know who performed it.

And you have no evidence to go on.

You just have the music, looping endlessly, asking questions, but answering none.

That's the plot of this 1994 episode of the Nickelodeon show, Pete and Pete.

Sometimes you don't find a favorite song.

Sometimes it finds you.

And it's also what happened to master collector Bob Purse.

Why did this sing a song?

No!

No! At Chicago's Mammoth Music Mart sale. to collector Bob Purse. Why did this thing so long? No.

At Chicago's Mammoth Music Mart sale.

The Mammoth Music Mart started sometime in the late 70s and ran for 25 years to 2002.

It was run by a charity that was seeking funds for a Lugarik disease, ALS, research.

There's a history of having these mammoth tent sales in Chicago.

I don't know what they do elsewhere, but if you can imagine a tent the size of a good-sized Catholic church inside filled with nothing but recorded music, music-related things like instruments, sheet music,

any format of music that's been released, they would have records, cassettes, 8-tracks, 4578s,

and real-wheel tape.

In the vastness of the mammoth tent, there was no telling what you might find.

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