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- From: wcscses2@superior.carleton.ca (Geoff Hamer)
- Subject: Re: Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4?!?!?!?!?
- Message-ID: <wcscses2.727822493@cunews>
- Keywords: Chicago
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Carleton University
- References: <wcscses2.727811021@cunews> <C1BnAK.Crr@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:54:53 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In <C1BnAK.Crr@news.cso.uiuc.edu> jew43065@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Jeff Wisniewski) writes:
-
- >>Here is a question that I have pondered over for a long time. In the
- >>song by Chicago.. 25 or 6 to 4. What the hell does that mean?!?! I've
- >>never been able to make heads or tails of that lyric and it came up in
- >>a discussion in a bar the other day.
- >>
- >>Does anyone know what 25 or 6 to 4 means?
- >>
- >> _
- >> Mr. Geoff
- >>
-
- >In the book that came with the Chicago box set, Robert Lamm (the guy who
- >wrote 25 Or 6 To 4 and keyboard player for Chicago) says that the title
- >refers to the time of day and that the song itself is just a song
- >about writing a song.
-
- >--Jeff
-
- Ok, I'll buy that. But, if '6 to 4' refers to 3:54. Where does the
- '25' come from? Are they saying '3:35 or 3:54'?
-
- _
- Mr. Geoff
-