Rush Limbaugh - Timeless Wisdom
Rush Limbaugh - Timeless Wisdom
The Rush Limbaugh Show
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🗓️ 29 December 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This song that you're hearing is a looped version, the intro, to a song by Chrissy Hind and the Pretenders called My City was Gone. |
| 0:11.3 | I'm calling attention to this because I haven't talked about this song in many, many moons, and I don't know how many of you know where the song is from. |
| 0:18.7 | You just, you so identify it with this program, understandably so, 30 plus years. |
| 0:23.6 | But this song is used with the permission of one of the most legendary female performers in rock. |
| 0:32.5 | Chrissy Hind, her publishing company actually tried to take it away. |
| 0:37.5 | I guess this is back in the early 90s when we were still doing the program out of New York. |
| 0:44.9 | The publishing firm tried to take it away. |
| 0:48.1 | And she interceded and told them effectively to pound sand that if I wanted to continue to use it, that I would have her permission to use it. |
| 0:59.4 | We negotiated a price. We pay them an annual fee for the usage of the tune. |
| 1:04.0 | I point this out because Chrissy Hind is out today in a story in the UK Daily Mail. |
| 1:13.9 | And the headline, the pretenders Chrissy Hind praises Trump for honoring Rush Limbaugh despite being a liberal herself. |
| 1:22.6 | She's doing this because her dad loved Limbaugh and she believes in the right to disagree. |
| 1:30.2 | This is another reason why, but she was on WPLJ in New York when they were Scott Shannon and the guys were asking her about this during the controversy of the, I mean, we had the, we actually had the song taken away for a period of, I think, three weeks or a month until she interceded. |
| 1:46.5 | She was on PLJ in New York. |
| 1:48.3 | They asked her about it. |
| 1:49.1 | She said, I don't care. |
| 1:49.8 | If Rush wants to use it fine with me, which totally confounded her publishing company. |
| 1:56.3 | So we got the song back. |
| 1:57.7 | The reason is that her dad was a huge fan of this program. |
| 2:01.5 | Her dad's name was Melville, nickname was Bud. |
| 2:06.4 | And Chrissy Hines says that her late father, Melville, would have loved Trump's presidency, |
| 2:12.3 | would have absolutely adored Trump, and would have just been excited as he could be when Trump presented |
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