Doug Moe: Berrymans' colorful career continues. (Wisconsin State Journal, 10/5/2011)
Excerpt: It's doubtful many people around here still need an introduction to the Berrymans, who were high school chums in Appleton in the 1960s and have been fixtures in Madison since the following decade, when you could hear them twice a week, cover charge a quarter, at the Club de Wash.
The Berrymans are so identified with Madison that when they tour, people ask them about the city. It happens so often they wrote a song about it titled, appropriately enough, "Madison, Wisconsin."
The chorus: "So how's old Madison, Wisconsin?/ Is that Paul Soglin still the mayor?/ And is Rennebohm's expanding?/ Is the Club de Wash still there?/ I used to sit out on the Terrace/ And watch my grade point disappear."
It's a little strange to realize Paul Soglin is still the mayor and there's a new Rennie's soda fountain in the Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery..
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