Friday, June 19, 2015

G Stands for Go-Betweens: The promotional sampler

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To promote the limited-edition Go-Betweens box set G Stands for Go-Betweens: Volume 1 , Domino Records issued this promo-only sampler, w...
Thursday, June 4, 2015

Victorian-era trade cards: mandolins and lutes

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Woolston Spice Company, Toledo, Ohio Music Weird previously featured Victorian-era trade cards of piano and organ companies . Today ...
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Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Rebecca Black's "BFF You Make Me LOL": What happened?

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In 2011, T he Sun  reported that Rebecca Black , the amateur teen singer whose vanity single " Friday " unexpectedly became a...
Sunday, May 10, 2015

Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John": Sequels, parodies, and answer songs

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Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad John" has to be one of the most parodied songs in the history of popular music. It spawned more answe...
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Atrocious fake accents in music

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One practice that we should all be thankful has died out is the widespread use of fake accents in music. In pop and folk music, in par...
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Friday, April 3, 2015

Shmoo songs of 1948-49

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The merchandizing blitz around the  shmoo  character from Al Capp's comic strip  L'il Abner  was so excessive in the late 194...
Thursday, March 19, 2015

Josephine "Jodi" Ann Bancino, country-pop songwriter of the '50s and '60s

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Anita McCune, Betty Sue Perry, and Jodi Bancino I decided to write about Jodi Bancino after seeing this photo of her in The Tennessea...
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