Roadrunner by Jonathan Richman is one of my all-time faves. On 2 Feb 2007 I put a two-line entry into Wikipedia about it, and it quickly grew to this. It's a song that has plenty of admirers. Now the Guardian's Laura Barton, who I knew to be a woman of taste and discretion from her remarks on Tupelo Honey, has visited Boston, MA, and driven up and down Route 128 in the dark "with the radio on". She even walked past the Stop 'n' Shop, then she drove past the Stop 'n' Shop - she doesn't say which she preferred, but I suspect the latter. Full story.
I now need to go home to my meagre singles collection and check which side of the 1977 single is Roadrunner (Once) and which is Roadrunner (Twice). In my mind, Once was the one that got all the radio play, and is the later version credited to Richman only, while Twice is the older one with the Modern Lovers.
