[78-L] Frigidaire, Vaughn Meadera nd Tina Fey

[David Lennick]

Bud Black wrote:
> Appliance songs, well lemme see,
> How 'bout "The Schick of Araby?"
> 
> Bud  (ducking) 
>  

And Bic In The Saddle Again.

(Better Ron, son.)


> -------Original Message-------
>  
> From: Randy Watts
> Date: 12/6/2008 1:21:38 AM
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Frigidaire, Vaughn Meadera nd Tina Fey
>  
> You know, all the years I've heard "I'm Thru with Love," I never thought of
> that as being intentionally punning. Just always took the resemblance of 
> frigid air" to "Frigidaire" as coincidence. Never bothered me that a heart
> could not literally have frigid air in it. After all, I've never read of an
> actual stringed heart, either. Zinging or otherwise.
>  
> Randy
>  
>  
> --- On Fri, 12/5/08, Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com> wrote:
>  
>> From: Michael Biel <mbiel at mbiel.com>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Frigidaire, Vaughn Meadera nd Tina Fey
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Friday, December 5, 2008, 11:21 PM
>>> A friend and I have argued about this for years. He
>> insists the word is "Frigidaire," a reference to
>> the refrigerator. I've always believed it was
>> "frigid air." "I've stocked my heart with
>> icy, frigid air."   Randy
>> Jim Whipkey wrote:
>>
>>> Randy, I  can tell you  absolutely  I believe the song
>> refers  simply to
>>
>>> the brand name refrigerator because  it is  what  I
>> grew up  hearing anytime
>>> a reference was made to the box  powered by  electric
>> (or gas) was
>>> mentioned.
>> IT'S A PUN.  It is a reference to the trade name BUT IT
>> MEANS FRIGID
>> AIR.  How the holy hell can you stock your heart with a
>> refrigerator????????????  Of course if you had air in your
>> heart you
>> would DIE, so that makes no sense either, but it is OBVIOUS
>> that it is a
>> PUN on the word that the singer is saying that protecting
>> themselves
>> from being hurt by their lover.
>>
>> For Pete's sake, I can't imagine anyone on this
>> list, of all places, not
>> recognizing a PUN.
>>
>> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>   My paternal Grandmother's first  and  evermore
>> refrigerators
>>> from the time  she  no longer had an Ice Box was
>> always  a gas powered
>>> Servel refrigerator,  it was always referred to as the
>> "Frigidaire" My
>>> maternal Grandmother had a real  Ice Box, with  daily
>> deliveries of ice
>>> until after  World War II, when she got a genuine
>> Frigidaire refrigerator
>>> and to her dying day, more than 30 years later,
>> always referred to it as
>>> the "Ice Box".  And to reinforce  my belief,
>> I recall seeing the sheet
>>> music, my Father had a small band and  seemingly every
>> song  published  and
>>> the word   was spelled Frigidaire.
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