SLIPPED DISCS

Dallas has recently produced, indirectly, two new recordings of note. But you may never hear either song on the local airways.

#1 It had to happen. A song about the Priscilla/Cullen Davis case. Entitled “Bye Bye Baby Blue,” and subtitled “Goodbye Priscilla,” the song is on Tear Drop Records out of none other than Garland, Texas. As sung by one Gene Summers, it’s a slow, country-tinged ballad, a departing lover’s lament. Cullen to Priscilla? Stan Farr to Priscilla? Hard to say. You wouldn’t even know the song had anything to do with Priscilla if it didn’t say “Goodbye, Priscilla” at the end. If you don’t hear this song on your radio, it’s because nobody is bothering to play it.

#2 The Commander Cody Band has recently cut a bouncy rock tune called “Seven-Eleven.” It’s about shoplifting. While obviously tongue-in-cheek, the chorus does go on about “stealin” at the Seven-Eleven.” You may not hear this song on your radio because the Southland Corporation of Dallas, owners of 7-Eleven, doesn’t want you to. At least one local radio station acknowledges receiving from Southland a memo requesting “politely” that the station refrain from playing the song. The request is understandable – the chorus lyric saying “At Seven-Eleven the choice is to/ Steal from them or let them steal from you” hardly makes for good PR. There has, in fact, been a tale from California of kids ransacking a 7-Eleven while singing the song. Hard to believe, but apparently such talk is worrisome to the Southland legal division whose response is “No comment.” Perhaps their fears are unfounded. Says one local DJ. “It’s not much of a song. 1 wouldn’t play it anyway.”