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I've always thought of Chris de Burgh as being one of these guys like Phil Collins who has this everyman image that people think is strangely funny.
The top 40 stations in Cincinnati seemed to be unusually fast on adding anything Chris put out. I remember listening to American Top 40 and being surprised to hear that "Don't Pay The Ferryman" - now a lost hit itself - was only in the 30s and still climbing the chart. Judging by radio play back then, I would have thought it was a chart-topping smash that had run its course by then.
"High On Emotion" made it to our biggest top 40 station pretty quickly even though this same station was slow at adding most other new music. The video got a lot of play too, and it was noted that members of Chris's band bore strong resemblances to other famous people - David Bowie and Paul McCartney among them.
And Chris looked like Dr. Shrinker, the title character of one of the 1970s Saturday morning shows created by Sid and Marty Krofft.
This isn't the only such link between popular music and a Krofft show, as Carly Rae Jepsen has been said to strongly resemble Dyna Girl.
And how come you never see people wearing those shirts that say "Bah!" anymore?
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