[78-L] Song "The Broken Record"

[Taylor Bowie]

Yves,  I also love the Tea For Two lyric...I think the very "literate" verse 
is a perfect set-up for the more simple chorus,  and all the words and the 
music make a perfect combination.

Certainly a lyric which contains "cozy to hide in,  to sit side-by-side in, 
don't let it abide in my dreams" carries a lot more weight than "The needle 
stuck on the broken half..."

Taylor B


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "yves francois" <aprestitine at yahoo.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 10:58 PM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Song "The Broken Record"


>    ... and I am so glad to see this post and i can thank the gentleman 
> Friend, Tobias and Bunch for such a catchy tune. I LOVE the Mound City 
> Blue Bowers version, almost desert island (even if it sounds like "dummy " 
> lyrics, but heck, I also love "Tea For Two's" lyrics), will have to play 
> it in the next day or so, BYW have they figured out who is singing on the 
> MCBB record (I know that McKenzie is playing the comb on this one and 
> Berigan and the wonderful and criminally under rated tenor sax player 
> Forrest Crawford is also on it)...
> All the best to the three of you (and to David for the channeling LOL)
> Yves Francois
>
> --- On Sat, 1/24/09, Cliff Friend, Harry Tobias & Boyd Bunch 
> <dlennick at sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> From: Cliff Friend, Harry Tobias & Boyd Bunch <dlennick at sympatico.ca>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Song "The Broken Record"
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 10:55 PM
>
>> 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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