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Post by loveless on Sept 20, 2024 16:46:58 GMT
"This Song" AND "Only a Northern Song" by George Harrison
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Sept 20, 2024 16:52:50 GMT
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Post by osgood on Sept 20, 2024 16:52:51 GMT
Leon Russell's A Song for You
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Post by Stacy Heydon on Sept 20, 2024 16:53:08 GMT
"This Song" AND "Only a Northern Song" by George Harrison Funnily enough I was just going to suggest 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps'. So that's three George/Beatles references we've squeezed in...DF will be delighted! |
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Post by "BING E BONG" on Sept 20, 2024 16:53:12 GMT
(time-saver: look for 'song' in the title)
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Post by osgood on Sept 20, 2024 16:58:27 GMT
Not a song, but a sonnet, by Spanish XVII century writer Lope de Vega, in which he explains the process of writing a sonnet. I found this excellent English translation
I'm keeping busy! Now, I have to frame
a sonnet, by command of Violet.
In sonnets, fourteen lines are what you get:
the first three make it look an easy game.
I thought I’d find no word that ends the same!
And now I’m halfway through the second set:
but, thinking forward to the first tercet,
the quatrains are comparatively tame.
The first tercet is starting, I’ve just spotted!
Off on the right foot first I entered on it,
so in this line the same is duly slotted.
I’m on the second tercet of my sonnet:
already thirteen lines are crossed and dotted.
Count up – fourteen, I fancy – yes, I’ve done it!
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Post by Charlie O. on Sept 20, 2024 17:07:26 GMT
"Laughing Stock" by Love? (I keep on singin' my songs-I-just-got-out-my-little-red...)
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Post by loveless on Sept 20, 2024 17:10:52 GMT
"I Got the Blues" - the Rolling Stones
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Post by loveless on Sept 20, 2024 17:12:07 GMT
"You Never Even Called Me By My Name" (written by Steve Goodman and John Prine, known - to me - as recorded by David Allan Coe)
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Post by osgood on Sept 20, 2024 17:13:10 GMT
If references to other songs qualify, Glass Onion fits the bill.
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Post by loveless on Sept 20, 2024 17:18:00 GMT
Nilsson is one of the gods (IMO), and somehow manages to do this more than once and not have it be (again IMO) remotely obnoxious.
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Post by loveless on Sept 20, 2024 17:18:37 GMT
"Silly Love Songs"
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 20, 2024 17:18:38 GMT
I think I get it. something like "I Bet You Won't Play this Song on the Radio" which is pretty bad. "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing" which is sort of great.
"This Song" by George Harrison which is pretty forgettable. "This Song's For You" & "Your Song" which I remember along with the fact that I'm getting very old.
EDIT: hanging my head in shame as I realize that ALL my contributions have the word "song" in the very title. must. try. harder.
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Post by loveless on Sept 20, 2024 17:25:43 GMT
"Your Song" may be as good as it gets, as far as this sort of thing goes - you know what he's doing, HE knows what he's doing, and yet, there's a sentimental sweetness there that I can fully surrender to on a good day.
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Post by Sneelock on Sept 20, 2024 17:27:31 GMT
me too but I'd say the same for the Leon.
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