"Dangling Conversation" by Simon and Garfunkel (doesn't mention any particular poem, but name-checks Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost)
Heh. That's the first song that came to my mind, Fred.
Hey, if it means I don't have to read any more, woo and, might I add, a big hoo.
Xander ,'Sleeper'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
Polter-Cow - Aug 19, 2005 6:17:03 am PDT #9752 of 10003
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Frankenbuddha - Aug 19, 2005 6:19:23 am PDT #9753 of 10003
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
2HB by Roxy Music is about Bogie, but I can't remember if it mentions or alludes to a particular film or films.
tina f. - Aug 19, 2005 6:21:25 am PDT #9754 of 10003
"Harper Valley P.T.A" by Jeannie C. Riley (Peyton Place)
I love this song! When I hear it, I am 7 years old and eating fishsticks and mac and cheese on my Disney TV tray in front of the TV. I know the song is from the late 60s, but it is connected to the 80s sitcom in my mind forever.
Thanks for the suggestions.
Oh and
"Dangling Conversation" by Simon and Garfunkel
Is on the "I-can't-hear-it-ever-again" list due to being a bad-ex-boyfriend-reminder. Unfortunately.
Fred Pete - Aug 19, 2005 6:22:28 am PDT #9755 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Oh, rats. Now I'm really going:
"Western Movies" by the Olympics (numerous TV Westerns of the '50s)
"Searchin'" by the Coasters (numerous fictional detectives)
"Don't Stand So Close to Me" by the Police (Nabokov's Lolita)
"Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah" by Allan Sherman (Ulysses)
"Rocket 2 U" by the Jets (All My Children)
"Roll Over Beethoven" by Chuck Berry, later covered by ELO (name-checks Beethoven and Tchaikovsky)
tina f. - Aug 19, 2005 6:23:52 am PDT #9756 of 10003
Oh, rats. Now I'm really going:
Hee. Sorry!
"Rocket 2 U" by the Jets (All My Children)
Really? The soap opera?
Fred Pete - Aug 19, 2005 6:24:36 am PDT #9757 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
2HB by Roxy Music is about Bogie
"Key Largo" and "Casablanca" by Bertie Higgins also center around him. "Key Largo" includes the line "Here's lookin' at you, kid."
joe boucher - Aug 19, 2005 6:25:19 am PDT #9758 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man by Chuck Berry:
Marlo [sic] Venus was a beautiful lass
Had the world in the palm of her hand
Lost both her arms in a wrasslin' match
To meet a brown eyed handsome man
She fought and won herself a brown eyed handsome man.
Fred Pete - Aug 19, 2005 6:27:01 am PDT #9759 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Really? The soap opera?
Yes. I don't remember the exact words, but the idea is that the TV's broken, so she can't watch her soap.
There's also an obscure tribute to General Hospital called "General Hospi-tale" by the Afternoon Delights, which had a very brief moment of popularity in the early '80s.
Jon B. - Aug 19, 2005 6:36:48 am PDT #9760 of 10003
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
A song that mentions a piece of art (movie, sculpture, poem, whatev.)
There's always the Jonathan Richman hits "Pablo Picasso" and "Vincent Van Gogh".
Sheryl - Aug 19, 2005 7:12:48 am PDT #9761 of 10003
Fandom means never having to say "But where would I wear that?"
There's also an obscure tribute to General Hospital called "General Hospi-tale" by the Afternoon Delights, which had a very brief moment of popularity in the early '80s.
:sheepish: I think I bought this 45. Hey, I was in high school and watched GH, what can I say.