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My favorite Chuck Berry story isn't really a story, it's a joke from the late 1950's, or maybe it was a New Yorker cartoon. We sent up a telecommunications satellite into outer space (true), with recordings playing our planet's greatest music, Caruso, Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry among others (true), to see if anybody was out there listening. Story is, we received response signal from outer space, and when the greatest scientists finally decoded the signal it said, "more Chuck Berry"!
My favorite Chuck Berry story isn't really a story, it's a joke from the late 1950's, or maybe it was a New Yorker cartoon. We sent up a telecommunications satellite into outer space (true), with recordings playing our planet's greatest music, Caruso, Louis Armstrong, Chuck Berry among others (true), to see if anybody was out there listening. Story is, we received response signal from outer space, and when the greatest scientists finally decoded the signal it said, "more Chuck Berry"!
Posted by: Stan Adelman | March 19, 2017 at 04:31 PM
Beethoven is reported to have stopped rolling over in his grave on hearing the news of Chuck's death.
Posted by: Chester Burnett | March 20, 2017 at 07:59 PM
I am temporarily suspending my policy of not responding to anonymous commenters, to recognize that Chester Burnett was a/k/a Howlin' Wolf.
Duly noted.
Posted by: Steve L. | March 20, 2017 at 08:02 PM