Today I called Professor Malone who is a country music historian and is mainly involved in country music. I called him to confirm the date in which I would be interviewing him twice, and unfortunately he didn’t pick up, but I got his answering machine which was more entertaining than one might think. His voicemail is actually a jingle, and seeing as I had never heard it before, it was very amusing. It was very long for a voicemail and rhymed and included Professor Bill Malone’s name and had something to do with him being sorry he missed my call. I think it went something like “you have reached the malones we’re sorry we have missed your call/ please leave a message at the beep and we’ll get back to you all.” I assume it was him singing in the track. He was accompanied by a woman, who I assume to be his wife, who was doing harmonies to it which I found extremely amusing, that someone would go to the trouble to write this and add harmonies to it for something as simple as the voicemail on their answering machine. The tune altogether reminded me of a show I saw in Disney World’s Magic Kingdom called Country Bear Jamboree which is a bunch of animatronic bears singing old country/bluegrass like tunes. His tune on his answering machine had the exact same sound. Long story short I left a message and he hasn’t gotten back to me but hopefully he will by tomorrow.