‘Roadrunner’ gets another shot at state rock song

Does Massachusetts need an official rock 'n roll tune? State Sen. Robert L. Hedlund (R-Weymouth) thinks so. He wants it to be "Roadrunner," by Natick native Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers. And so do thousands of other people, judging from the likes of a Facebook page set up to back the effort, which began, in the legislature at least, with Marty Walsh, now Boston's mayor.

Walsh proposed enshrining Roadrunner in 2013 while still a state representative from Dorchester, at the urging of publicist Joyce Linehan. The bill failed to come to a vote before the legislative session ended, but not before generating plenty of attention in the media. Now there's a new version of the bill and it will have an official hearing before the Joint Committee on State Administration and Regulatory Oversight on Tuesday afternoon in the State House.