[78-L] Song "The Broken Record"

[Taylor Bowie]

Good rhymes like that make it all worthwhile!

And you don't have to be Cole Porter to do it...one of my faves is from De 
Sylva - Brown - Henderson:

"Most men tell love tails,

And each phrase dove-tails..."

Love tails and dove-tails...that is class.

Taylor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bud Black" <banjobud at cfl.rr.com>
To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 25, 2009 7:49 AM
Subject: Re: [78-L] Song "The Broken Record"


> My favorite lyric has always been, "...but Heaven rest us....I'm not
> asbestos."
>
> Bud
>
> -------Original Message-------
>
> From: yves francois
> Date: 01/25/09 03:04:54
> To: 78-L Mail List
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Song "The Broken Record"
>
> Taylor
> I totally agree, it's just how did they make a record about a broken 
> record,
> it's absurd enough to make me laugh (come to think of it, it is kind of 
> the
> way giddy love feels), i think that's why "The Broken Record"  sticks to 
> my
> head (or is it my love of anything Berigan was on in 1935/6 over riding it
> all), any ideas on the vocalists on the vocal trio?
> Yves
>
> --- On Sun, 1/25/09, Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com> wrote:
>
>> From: Taylor Bowie <bowiebks at isomedia.com>
>> Subject: Re: [78-L] Song "The Broken Record"
>> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
>> Date: Sunday, January 25, 2009, 1:21 AM
>> 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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