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"She's got a picture in her locker...An autographed basketball..."
Don't be confused by websites that spell this performer's name Iain. He officially changed the spelling of his name in 1989.
People talk about how they remember a song on the radio in the late 1970s that sang about "an autographed basketball." Well, it's this one. It's about someone who keeps a picture of an autographed basketball in her locker.
When I was in school, I knew better than to store anything of such great value in my locker, because people kept breaking into the lockers. It was particularly bad in high school, when the locks were a separate piece from the locker instead of being built-in. Apparently, somebody kept sawing them off with a hacksaw. At least once, someone threw a lock into the toilet. The school refused to replace our locks when someone removed them. Then the school made us pay for textbooks that got stolen from our lockers because we didn't have a lock.
We had to pay for the stolen locks too. The school charged an inflated price for these. I saw this brand of lock being sold at a store for a fraction of the cost, but we were required to use the locks provided by the school.
Around the same time Iain's now-lost hit was popular, the sport of basketball had a big advertising campaign. I don't know who was paying for it. I don't think it was a major league like the NBA or a particular brand of basketballs like Spalding or Wilson. I remember a radio commercial that featured what sounded like a loud fart, followed by a woman singing, "Basketbaaaaaaaall!"
"Ppppphhh! Basketbaaaaaaaall!"
I also recall that around the same time, there was a gum commercial that seemed to have fart noises sprinkled throughout the jingle. People would dance around to this ad and act like they were farting, but unfortunately, not everyone saw the humor in this.
But it was truly a slam dunk!
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