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This blog contains press articles that are related to Gilmore Girls and/or its cast members, published since the show first started airing in 2000. The articles are archived according to the date they were added to the blog. Their original publishing dates are posted in their titles.

Thursday, May 04, 2006

(April 2006) House of Freaks song on 'Gilmore Girls'

Richmond Times-Dispatch
Thursday, April 27, 2006

Here's a reason to stay up extra late to watch "Gilmore Girls" at 2:30 a.m. Tuesday -- House of Freaks' "40 Years" sung by the show's resident troubadour, Grant Lee Phillips.

The choice of the song, written by the late Bryan Harvey, was made by Amy Sherman-Palladino and Dan Palladino, the show's departing executive producers who are also music supervisors for the show.

Dan Palladino, reached by phone yesterday, said he was a fan of the band -- composed of Harvey and Johnny Hott -- in Los Angeles in the 1980s.

"I always loved that song. It was played a lot in L.A."

More recently, he heard that their albums were being rereleased.

"I said to my wife, 'We've got to get this song on the show some way.'"

And then, the horrible events of Jan. 1 when Harvey, his wife and their two children were slain in their Richmond home.

"It so horrified me," said Palladino. "It's such a horrifying story. There's nothing worse than that.

"When that happened, we had dwindling times when we could get our troubadour to sing a song. But it was absolutely imperative we get '40 Years' into the show as our own tribute to Harvey. And, it's a great song."

Nationally, the "Gilmore Girls" episode aired this past Tuesday on the WB. But because Richmond doesn't have a WB affiliate, the show will air on WWBT, the local NBC affiliate, at 2:30 a.m. next Tuesday. -- Douglas Durden

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