30 Day Song Challenge Day 8 - A song about drugs or alcohol

@norcal (4889)
Franklinton, North Carolina
March 17, 2019 7:37pm CST
So, I bet nobody knows this song. It is from the album Bob Frank, by the artist Bob Frank. It came out in 1972 I think. It had a bit of a cult following. After that one album the artist was never heard from again on the music scene. I had a chance to meet him years later, and he apparently had a falling out with the record company and they would no longer promote his record, so he got a regular job and raised a family. The song is about his wife pawning her diamond ring so he could buy some weed. His wife (same one all these years later) said it was based on a true story, although her ring was not a diamond.
I used to hear Bob Frank's work on KFAT, a low power station out of Gilroy, California, and later, on KVMR, a public station in Nevada City. Pretty impressiv...
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@just4him (317040)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
18 Mar 19
I'm glad you had a chance to meet him and learned he was still married to the same woman and the song reflected a true situation in his life.
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@norcal (4889)
• Franklinton, North Carolina
18 Mar 19
They were fun to talk to, and his wife is a really nice lady.
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@LadyDuck (471294)
• Switzerland
18 Mar 19
Interesting story, surely many women (and men) did something similar.
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@norcal (4889)
• Franklinton, North Carolina
18 Mar 19
Yes, I think it was something people could relate to.
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@FourWalls (67726)
• United States
18 Mar 19
That's pretty funny, in a number of ways. I like it.
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@norcal (4889)
• Franklinton, North Carolina
18 Mar 19
Baby oh baby, don't take it so bad. You can't smoke a diamond anyway.
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@karakay (365)
• Philippines
18 Mar 19
Looks like a good story... and the wife loves his husband so much that she would even support him on his weed?
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@norcal (4889)
• Franklinton, North Carolina
18 Mar 19
I have a feeling she was also partaking of the weed, although might not have given up her rings without some nudging
18 Mar 19
Both of them are bad
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@norcal (4889)
• Franklinton, North Carolina
18 Mar 19
Ahh, everybody was smoking some weed back then. We weren't all bad.