[78-L] Song "The Broken Record" ^

[David Lennick]

By the way, if anyone was wondering whether that phrase had disappeared, 
Evangeline Lilly (age 29, just 4 years older than compact discs) was just on 
Letterman saying she "doesn't want to sound like a broken record".

dl

Taylor Bowie wrote:
> 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
>>>