[78-L] Longest title

[David Lennick]

And they got it all on the label. Ozzie Nelson, 1940. I've recently won two 
contenders in the "longest title" stakes..Bing Crosby's "Cranky Old Yank" on 
V-Disc and one I hadn't heard of before, "You'll Have To Put Him To Sleep With 
the Marseillaise and Wake Him With An Oo-La-La" as rendered by Irving Kaufman 
on a Columbia record.

dl

Royal Pemberton wrote:
> It's 'I'm looking for a guy who plays alto and baritone and *doubles on a
> clarinet and* wears a size 37 suit'.
> 
> On Sun, Nov 15, 2009 at 7:00 PM, Steven C. Barr <stevenc at interlinks.net>wrote:
> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr." <citroenid19 at sbcglobal.net>
>>> Patrick Feaster wrote:
>>>> Steven C. Barr writes: "I shall try to see if I can create an EXTREMELY
>>>> long
>>>> German word based thereupon...?!"
>>>> In the spirit of keeping things on topic: passengers aboard that Danube
>>>> steamship who were kept awake at night by the captain's noisy talking
>>>> machine, and who found him unwilling to "put a sock in it," might have
>>>> asked
>>>> whether he would at least consider some
>> Donaudampfschiffahrtsgesellschaftskapitänsphonographenmembranenschwingungsamplitudenverminderungsmaßnahmen!
>>> Not the longest, but a few years back, Steppenwolf did a number called,
>>> "Earschplittenloudenboomer".//
>>> "Today I have good news und I have bad news...Die erste Hlfte wird nicht
>>> verstehen, was ich jetzt gerade gesagt habe, und die zweite Hlfte wei?
>>> noch immer nicht, was ein Earschplittenloudenboomer ist."
>>> I think it has to do with the sound of an atomic bomb blast.
>>> Translation?
>> NOT needed...simply listen to music played by Led Zeppelin fans...?!
>> Since the German language creates "compound words" by stringing together
>> all the applicable adjectives in ever-longer words...is there not no such
>> thing
>> as a "longest German word?"
>>
>> As far as ACTUAL "longest titles"...there was a c.191? title (with MANY
>> sets of parentheses) which I used to cite; sadly, I can no longer recall
>> the
>> applicable tune! It was, IIRC, around the same length as a tune (with
>> intended length) titled something like "I'm Looking For a Guy Who
>> Plays...and Wears a Size 37 Suit"...?!
>>
>> Steven C. Barr
>>
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