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unusual facts about The String-A-Longs


Wide World Hits

Wide World Hits is the title of a recording by the instrumental group The String-A-Longs, released on Atco SD 33-241.


Back to the Heavyweight Jam

The version of the song released as a single contains a melody from Norman Petty song "Wheels", first recorded by The String-a-longs in 1961.

Barry Benefield

Some of Benefield's books, such as "Valiant Is the Word for Carrie" (1935), are written from the point of view of a Southerner who feels an exile living in the North, and who longs for the more carefree life of a small Southern town.

Colorado Territory

Other notable explorations included the Pike expedition of 1806–07 by Zebulon Pike, the journey along the north bank of the Platte River in 1820 by Stephen H. Long to what came to be called Longs Peak, the John C. Frémont expedition in 1845–46, and the Powell Geographic Expedition of 1869 by John Wesley Powell.

Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love

#"The Carolingian Period" : An architecture professor giving a tutorial on "Ecclesiastical structures of the Carolingian Period" (including music by Terry Edwards) is suddenly struck by the beauty of the young student before him and longs to be young again...

Going Hollywood

Written by Donald Ogden Stewart and based on a story by Frances Marion, the film is about a French teacher at an all-girl school who longs to find love.

Havana Heat

He longs for a second chance and approaches his former manager, John McGraw, about re-joining the New York Giants.

Loch Long One Design

New Loch Longs with strip planked hulls were admitted to the class in 1994; 5 boats have been constructed using this method so far, which is significantly cheaper to build than the original carvel construction.

North Carolina Highway 905

From the South Carolina state line, N.C. 905 continues as S.C. 905, which crosses SC 9 at Longs, S.C.

Of the Five Wounds of the Holy Church

Rosmini longs for an intelligent union of the clergy and people in public worship, for a well-trained clergy, for an Episcopate united in heart and soul, for a restoration of the primitive method of electing Bishops and for the emancipation of Church property from trammels of feudal tenure.

Preston Long

Chiropractic Abuse, published by the American Council on Science and Health and edited by Stephen Barrett, the webmaster of Quackwatch, chronicles Longs's three decades in the chiropractic industry.

Swan Sequence

She longs for fish, but is unable to catch them; she looks up longingly at Orion.


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