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From: paulb@ttidcc.UUCP (Paul Blumstein)
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia,net.movies,net.music
Subject: Re: Cool Hand Luke -- plastic Jesus
Message-ID: <685@ttidcc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 15-Aug-85 18:30:47 EDT
Article-I.D.: ttidcc.685
Posted: Thu Aug 15 18:30:47 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 18-Aug-85 19:40:42 EDT
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Reply-To: paulb@ttidcb.UUCP (Paul Blumstein)
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Summary: 

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.
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