I was working in the garden while listening to an oldies station today and I heard " Western Union." I was so excited! My dog did not share my enthusiam.
It was a big thrill for me! Since you aren’t making any royalties off it, where do I send my nickel too? I want to help you in your golden years?
No I DO make royalties on radio airplay!!! I now I make sales royalties too!!!
Yep Western Union is played 15000 times every three months. I get 6 cents per play…you do the math!!
Thanks for reporting!!! Go Western Unino…Baby needs a new pair of shoes!
Geezz that was some awful spelling …oh well I get excited when someone hears my song!
Where have I been that I didn’t hear you were famous for something other than being personally greeted by Jerry, Ed and hoo ha-ed by Uncle Cecil???
I LOVE that song! Long live us oldies but goodies and the songs that rock! Western Union…da…ta.ta…de…da…ta…de…da…is that by the Americans??? I can’t remember now. ack!!
I can’t believe I’m answering this, but I seem to recall this collection of putzes was calles “The Five Americans” 
Now I can keep my nickel…at last, I can retire.
I think I am going to call the oldies station a dozen times a day to request your greatest hits. I think that it is so cool that I actually know (well, sorta, kinda in a vague way) someone who wrote a song that is played on the radio.
Thanks, Coldfire! But, hey how putzie can they be, if they recognized aha’s great talent!? You don’t HAVE to answer that, BTW!! 
Shirley: Please do …although if you call too much they make catch on to us!
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Coldfire…correctamondo!
The best part of grabbing a bit of fame when I was younger was re-established for me just yesterday.
I got a letter from the a retired US soldier yesterday…he had been by my website and emailed me and asked me if I would send him an autographed picture of The Five Americans. He said that while in Vietnam our songs had played many times on armed forces radio. He said that it brought his entire company ( the 587th) closer to home at a time when moral was very low and our boys were homesick. He said that his company was having a reunion and that a picture would mean alot to the whole company.
I signed and sent one out to him first thing this morning.
How total cool.That must have been pretty touching. The last time anyone wanted my autograph was signing their high school year book. I don’t think it made them feel closer to home.
Shirley most people are more interested in getting my autograph on a check these days than anything.
They called themselves The Five Americans so they’d remember how many were supposed to be on the tour bus.
They originally wanted to call themselves The Village Idiots, but the idiot’s union wouldn’t go for it. They said it would give idiots a bad name.
Incidentally, I heard Western Union twice on CHUM 1050 AM in the last couple of months.
I don’t have a radio anymore.
I have the pieces, though.
(aha making a peace sign with two fingers then boinking Wally in the eyes with them, three stooges style)
BTW…
We did the Steve Allen show in 1967. After finishing our song we walked over and sat down at the dais. Steve turned to us and said "great song…
So how many in your group?"
True story I swear.
LOL!
Even Steve Allen is not immune to occassional stupidity.
Wouldn’t this be a great name for a band?
This is a landmark moment for me. The above post was my 2000th. 2000 mundane, pointless, rambling incoherent brain farts.
And I got to use the word PUTZ in it.
Congratulations Shirley!! I love all your posts. Well I confess I haven’t read them all but the ones I have read have truly been pointless and mundane!!! I am proud of you!
** aha!! ** I feel awful for just now getting around to seeing your web page! But we have some exciting news! Jimmy Wright, * could be a long lost relative!! * Our LAST name is Wright, and while it’s true we have NO Jimmy that we are aware of, hey it’s STILL possible! True??
Also, my son DJ is with me and we just discovered HE is a ** ‘Hardcore Record Buff’ who knew what the ‘B/W’ meant on your 45! ** I thought it meant ‘black and white’ so we also know from this excursion, I’m not only NOT buff, I have ** no ** buff of any kind!
Your web page was really neat, and it’s great that ya’ll got together in '87, any other reunion plans in the works??
None soon I am afraid Anti pro but if we do I will email you!
Aha, I had no idea!!! None whatsoever. Wow, I guess now I will start paying attention to your posts. I mean, I love “Wester Union” It’s forever linked with some of my best and favorite childhood memories.
Pepperlandgirl Sedith:
You mean you haven’t been before??
Well you are a girl next to my own heart because the beatles have always had a special place there.