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From: tom@rlgvax.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.games.trivia,net.records
Subject: Re: Need help with Bugs Bunny ('Open the door, Richard')
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Date: Tue, 14-Jun-83 12:02:28 EDT
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Posted: Tue Jun 14 12:02:28 1983
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I have heard the phrase "open the door, Richard" before in a song of
the same name done by Thunderclap Newman (an English group; you may
remember them for the song "Something In the Air") in the 60's.  Unless
it is a historical folk tune, it obvously postdates Bugs Bunny, so I
imagine that Bugs' quote and this both refer back to a common source.

I also seem to remember a song by Bob Dylan (one of those on the
"Basement Tapes") titled "Open the Door, Homer".  I don't have that album
and I don't have the Thunderclap Newman album handy to check references
so I don't know the relationship (if any) between the two songs.  Would
anyone care to check this out?

The chorus for the Thunderclap Newman song is (approximately) as follows:

	"Open the door, Richard" -- I've heard it said before
	"Open the door, Richard" -- I've heard it said before
	"Open the door, Richard" -- I've heard it said before
	But I ain't gonna hear it said no more.

- Tom Beres
{seismo, mcnc, allegra, brl-bmd, we13}!rlgvax!tom