(FD-350): 'D.B. Cooper Record Scores In Gresham', The Oregon Journal
Document date 30 December 1971
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FBI 164-81, Vault Part 54 p. 61 (DB Cooper-22987), News clipping, dated 30 Dec 1971, serial PD 164-41-5261 (as read from the transcript) — cooper.theunsolved.net/documents/Cooper-Part-54%3A061-061
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PORTLAND MUST WAIT D.B. Cooper Record Scores In Gresham
By DENNIS McCARTHY Journal Staff Writer
A new country-Western record based on the exploits of skyjacker "D.B. Cooper" has stirred favorable reaction among most radio listeners in Gresham, but it may be awhile before Portlanders hear the tune.
Ed Kiebler, program director for radio station KRDR, Gresham, said public reaction to the new record, "D.B. Cooper, Where Are You?" has been phenomenal. "We started playing it a couple nights ago and asked people to call in and tell us what they thought of it," Kiebler explained.
MOST CALLERS said they liked the record, on the Thunder Tummy Label by Seattle Sounds, a division of Kirkwood Corp. of Seattle. Only a few callers said they disliked the song because if glorified Cooper as a hero.
A check of local Portland radio station managers indicated most have not heard the song or received a copy yet. One who had received the record said flatly that it isn't worth playing.
The song was written by two Seattle songwriters, Mary Ann Rabdau and Phil Volk Jr., and recorded by Seattle nightclub entertainer, Tom Breslin. It takes a few verbal jabs at airline services in the Pacific Northwest ("when it comes to things like hospitality, you sure can't beat that Northwest flying.").
It continues: "He asked for some money in $20 bills and then he just dropped clean out of ta sight" and, "When [a] way came along to change it (this life, he jumped at the opportunity."
MARY ANN BAKKER, the record's publisher, told the Journal that the record is intended as a news story set to lyrics, rather than an attempt to glorify Cooper or to capitalize on the Cooper name.
She added that 1,500 copies of the record, distributed to Seattle record outlets Dec. 24, are almost gone, and that she is negotiating with a national record company.
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THE OREGON JOURNAL PORTLAND, OREGON
Date: 12/30/71, pg. 3 Edition: Author: Editor: Title:
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164-41-5261 SE[ARCH]ED [illegible] S[ERIALIZ]ED [illegible]
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DB Cooper-22987
Serials: PD 164-41-5261