Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site oakhill.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!oakhill!hunter From: hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) Newsgroups: net.games.trivia,net.movies,net.music Subject: Re: Cool Hand Luke -- plastic Jesus Message-ID: <490@oakhill.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 17:24:06 EDT Article-I.D.: oakhill.490 Posted: Fri Aug 16 17:24:06 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 19:51:47 EDT References: <140@mtsbb.UUCP> <685@ttidcc.UUCP> Reply-To: hunter@oakhill.UUCP (Hunter Scales) Distribution: na Organization: Motorola Inc. Austin, Tx Lines: 18 In article <685@ttidcc.UUCP> paulb@ttidcb.UUCP (Paul Blumstein) writes: >In article <140@mtsbb.UUCP> gnw@mtsbb.UUCP (G.N.WEBER) writes: >>In the movie "Cool Hand Luke", Paul Newman (as Luke) plays the >>banjo and sings a song after his mother dies. This song opens >>with the line "Get yourself a plastic Jesus... for the dashboard >>of your car".... > >The song is "Plastic Jesus" by Ernie Mars. Written about the mid >'60s. I can't recall who recorded it. I'm adding net.music to >to distribution, perhaps someone there has more details. Come now, dont you remember the way Janis Joplin belted out that song? -- Motorola Semiconductor Inc. Hunter Scales Austin, Texas {ihnp4,seismo,ctvax,gatech}!ut-sally!oakhill!hunter (I am responsible for me and my dog and no-one else)