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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 11:16 PM
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trivia ? That new USPS commercial: who is singing?
'I'm a gonna wrap myself in ribbon.... I'm a gonna mail myself to you.'


I've heard it about a zillion times the past two days. Is it Gordon Lightfoot? Thanks for helping me with my (remaining) sanity...
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-17-03 11:55 PM
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1. I thought it sounded like Cat Stevens
But that seems highly unlikely. It's a nice little tune, but I don't know why the post office needs to advertise.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 12:09 AM
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3. on advertising... alot is PR but I think FEDX and UPS
are taking a bigger bite out of the holiday shipping biz and USPS is trying to offset this.

nice little ditty-- yes, I think it is one of those songs I recall singing around campfires as a girl scout, believe it or not. That's probably why it was nagging at me.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 12:06 AM
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2. I just figured it out
by searching on the song title "mail myself to you" and listening to some audiotracks.

It is John McCutcheon

(now all I have to figure out is why his voice is so familiar, since I've never heard of him)!

Anyone?
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DieboldMustDie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 12:27 AM
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4. The song is by Woody Guthrie...
John McCutcheon is a folk singer who's been around for quite a while now.   I think I first heard of him sometime in the '80s.
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hlthe2b Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-18-03 12:29 AM
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5. Now that you say it... it does sound like a Woody Guthrie
song.........

mystery solved, I guess.
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