A femurals is a production of IHurt Radio.

The following contains spoilers about the episode Reputation.

When Bob Purse was at the Mammoth Music Mart sale in 1998, he picked up a half dozen or more

real-to-reel tapes marked with what appeared to be the same handwriting.

This included recordings of Don and Marigel Moreland, as well as some other oddities.

Two of them had the phrase the tallest rock on them, and another one said TR several times, which I took

to probably mean tallest rock, which is a piece of this that's never been written about.

The tallest rock is a song about the Sears Tower.

You can tell these are people that are working on the Sears Tower, which was going to be the

tallest building in the world when it was finished.

Every now and then there's a bit of talking about how they're negotiating with the folks

building the Sears Tower to be able to play this song when it's dedicated and opened.

When I looked it up many, many years ago, I did find a hit for a story about how some

electricians that helped build the Sears Tower performed

a song called the tallest rock at its opening ceremonies.

On May 3rd, 1979, the Chicago Tribune read,

Today's ceremony was almost postponed.

The weather was raw and windy.

The final girder contained the signatures of the 12,000

people who had worked on the project. The construction chief was worried that the 2,500 pound

beam might smash into some windows on the way up, but a few hundred people had already gathered

at the site. The girder was hoisted and set in place.

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