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"I told you 3 times...I told you 5 times..."
Meet Andrew Roachford, the man who skipped over even numbers when he counted things.
Andrew and his band gave us this memorable lost hit that showcased his rather unconventional counting method. Maybe that's because odd numbers are funnier than even numbers - as we all know. Our 8th grade battle cry was "5 out of 5", not "6 out of 6" or "10 out of 10." In fact, it was still a popular saying when I was a high school sophomore 3 years later. One day, we were all sitting quietly in biology class, when I heard someone yell out this catchphrase in the hallway.
Accordingly, this lost hit became one of the very first cassette singles I ever purchased. It also became one of the very few cassette singles I ever lost. Scroll down for the ending of that harrowing story...
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I recently found it after it was lost for over 20 years.
I can't count the number of things like that have been lost here. You can pretty much forget about ever finding something when someone says, "It's probably buried under all that junk." When it gets to that point, you can be 99% sure it's hopeless. One of very few exceptions is my Roachford cassette. Michael Penn still hasn't turned up though.
These cassettes weren't lost because I neglected them. They were lost because of incidents like the repeated break-ins in which everything got either scattered or stolen. This continued as late as last year, but the police insisted that this burglary must have been committed by family members who just wanted to use my bathroom. Seriously, they said that.
It brings a whole new meaning to lost hits!
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