[78-L] Song "The Broken Record"

[Taylor Bowie]

Boys,  forgive me.  To paraphrase GB Shaw: "Those who can write lyrics,  do; 
those who can't become critics!"

T


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Cliff Friend, Harry Tobias & Boyd Bunch" <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Song "The Broken Record"


> Dammit, he's finally caught on to us! OK, you genius, YOU write the lyric.
>
> Taylor Bowie wrote:
>> I've got another idea...something has been bothering me about a song 
>> lyric
>> ever since I first heard it 30 years ago.
>>
>> You know that silly novelty tune from late '35 called "The Broken 
>> Record"?
>> There are several versions of it including a Mound City Blue Blowers on
>> Champion and a Freddy Martin on Br (my taste or lack thereof runs the
>> gamut).
>>
>> OK...at one point the lyric makes mention about how,  while playing said
>> record of the title,  that "the needle stuck on the broken half,  and 
>> kept
>> playing, and saying...."
>>
>> HOW is this possible?  I mean...how the Hell can ONE half of the record 
>> be
>> broken without the other half being just as broken?  "The broken 
>> half"...and
>> the other half is....intact?
>>
>> This has always been one of the most irritating examples of lazy lyric
>> writing I could think of...help me achieve "closure" on this so I can 
>> move
>> on to,  and obsess about,  some other example of  musical/verbal idiocy!
>>
>> Taylor
>>
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