Prince ain't such a rarity there. It's still the Midwest (more properly the mid-south), where Prince is from. I remember quite well "Little Red Corvette" blasting from car stereos in 1982, as well as "Delirious" on the radio all the time in parts of Oklahoma. Hell, you can drive I-35 from OKC straight into Minneapolis in a couple of days at most. Minnesota is just that really cold state due north. lol

Mustang is not a small town. I mean, it's small unto itself, but it's a suburb of Oklahoma City, the capital. There's a lot of tech industry in Oklahoma because the cost of living is much less than on the coasts. Dell, Sprint, Verizon, etc have huge call center, repair and distribution sites in OKC and the surrounding area. Living in Mustang, where my late mother lived, is like a NYer going to Jersey on the weekend. OKC property has just over a half a million people, but if you count all the damn suburbs (Moore aka tornado's driveway, Norman - home of Oklahoma University, Edmond, Yukon, Mustang, Tuttle, and Newcastle... it's pretty spread out, lotta folks, but you don't feel crowded. But yeah, Prince is just as known there as anywhere. If for no other reason than I made sure of it in my teenage years. hahahaha

PS That is a funny story. I suppose it's the same as people putting out a purple ribbon, or changing out a purple light on their front porch, etc. It's sweet.

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TrivialPursuit said:

laytonian said:

I grew up listening to KOMA at night. The signal reached all the way over the mountains into Utah.

HAHAHA OMG! I used to listen to KOMA at night, just to hear who would call in and say where they were from. Most of the time they were never from Oklahoma. It was always some far away place that a radio station should never be coming in naturally. Utah doesn't surprise me, but it surprises me. I remember Florida calling in, and a lot of places west, near Utah. I don't know, with more clouded airwaves these days, if the signal still reaches or not, but it's pretty legendary.