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Post by Hervard on Jan 2, 2016 19:59:59 GMT -5
Rockin' Rod sang "give me a dime so I can phone my mother" in Do You Think I'm Sexy. Another Rockin' Rod from You Wear It Well: "I don't object if you call collect" Wow, Rod seems to have something about calling collect. In "Some Guys Have All The Luck", he mentions that near the end of the song.
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Post by davewollenberg on Jan 10, 2016 21:37:23 GMT -5
I actually thought Stevie said 'Beirut' in the dialogue.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Feb 20, 2016 11:44:41 GMT -5
Your TV set is acting up and you don't understand You're so upset because you can't watch "All My Children"
Jets - Rocket 2 U
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jul 1, 2016 21:28:58 GMT -5
Oran Juice Jones "The Rain" 1986: Several references 1) my first impulse was to run up on you And do a Rambo (most today wouldn't know who Rambo is) - 2) Silly rabbit, tricks are made for kids (referring to Trix - the cereal commercials with the rabbit) and my favorite line 3)" get on outta here with that alley-cat-coat-wearing, punch-bucket-shoe-wearing crumbcake I saw you with (not sure I even knew what that was when the song came out ) lol Modern Woman Billy Joel Time goes by and you're sharing an apartment She says she loves you but she doesn't know why In the morning she leaves you with your coffee and your paper It's a strange situation for an old fashioned guy But times have changed Things are not the same, baby You overcame such a bad attitude Rock and roll just used to be for kicks And nowadays it's politics And after 1986 what else could be newCoffee and paper? How primitive was 1986? Do you mean Starbucks and electronic handheld device?
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Post by mkarns on Jul 1, 2016 22:33:56 GMT -5
Eh, plenty of people, male and female, leave for work with their home-brewed coffee and printed newspaper.
Also, I think "The Rain" was misquoted here; Juice refers to "that Hush Puppy shoe wearing crumbcake"; Hush Puppies are still very much a thing. And I've seen the Trix rabbit in commercials and on cereal boxes lately (did he ever go away?) though I'm not sure if the "Silly rabbit, Trix are for kids" slogan is still in use.
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Post by at40nut on Jul 12, 2016 4:22:20 GMT -5
1981-Diesel "Sausalito Summer Night"- "You Left For Frisco In Your Rambler, The Radiator Running Dry" referring to the old AMC Rambler.
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Post by DJ Particle on Jul 12, 2016 8:43:58 GMT -5
Prince - "Gett Off"
o/~ Strip your dress down like I was strippin' a Peter Paul's Almond Joy... o/~
Hershey recently retired the "Peter Paul" branding on Mounds & Almond Joy.
There's also a reference in the song to Dudley Do-Right.
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Post by at40nut on Jul 12, 2016 16:45:33 GMT -5
I recently found an old Ronco record called "Star Trackin' 76, and it had a song on there called "Without Your Love (Mr. Jordan) by Charlie Ross. The song features a man and a woman calling each other via telephone in a manner to disguise a love affair between the two. In one part of the song, you can hear a rotary dial being used. "Without Your Love (Mr Jordan)" was not a Top 40 hit, although it reached #42 back in 1976.
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Post by mga707 on Jul 12, 2016 17:06:48 GMT -5
I recently found an old Ronco record called "Star Trackin' 76, and it had a song on there called "Without Your Love (Mr. Jordan) by Charlie Ross. The song features a man and a woman calling each other via telephone in a manner to disguise a love affair between the two. In one part of the song, you can hear a rotary dial being used. "Without Your Love (Mr Jordan)" was not a Top 40 hit, although it reached #42 back in 1976. g Love Unlimited's "Walkin' In the Rain (With the One I Love)" from 1972 also uses the rotary phone sound effect, near the end when the singer is calling her boyfriend (Barry White).
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Post by pb on Aug 28, 2016 15:01:31 GMT -5
"Eight-track playing your favorite sounds" from War's "Summer" in this week's 1976 countdown.
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Post by mga707 on Aug 28, 2016 17:22:19 GMT -5
Gene Cotton: Like A Sunday In Salem There was Amos and Andy on the radioThis one's a little different as that line was way outdated in 1978 as well. It's a 'flashback' song, set (if memory serves) in either the late '40s or early '50s. Haven't heard it for a LONG time, but I recall it reminded me of Bobby Goldsboro's 1973 hit "Summer (The First Time)" in it's use of a 'flashback' narrative.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 29, 2016 14:41:04 GMT -5
Amos & Andy was most popular in the 1930's (during the Depression era) that movie theaters used to broadcast the radio show before they started playing the movies for the night. Although the show was still being broadcast in the 1940's & 50's, it had waned quite a bit in popularity.
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Post by slf on Aug 29, 2016 19:00:33 GMT -5
Amos & Andy was most popular in the 1930's (during the Depression era) that movie theaters used to broadcast the radio show before they started playing the movies for the night. Although the show was still being broadcast in the 1940's & 50's, it had waned quite a bit in popularity. Don't forget about the TV version of Amos & Andy that ran for a couple of years in the early 1950's, which utilized an all-black cast (as opposed to the radio show in which the white actors/creators Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll did most of the voices). It was very popular in its original run and in reruns until 1966, when CBS pulled it from syndication because of complaints about its supposed racist humor and insulting depictions of black people. With a very few isolated exceptions, it has not been shown anywhere on TV since then, although it's possible to get legitimate and bootleg copies of episodes on video and DVD. Years ago, I purchased a VCR tape which had a couple of Amos & Andy episodes on it, and the humor and situations, to me, weren't any more outrageous than what one might see on "Sanford & Son" or "In Living Color". Some characters were depicted as buffoons, others were depicted as normal and responsible, in a ratio typical of any other sitcom cast of characters. In fact, from various accounts I have read over the years, lots of black people were fans of the show and were not offended at all.
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Post by djjoe1960 on Aug 29, 2016 19:39:44 GMT -5
One more thing about Freeman Gosden & Charles Correll, they provided the voices for a cartoon series that ran in 1961-62 on ABC TV. The series was Calvin & The Colonel and they used the same voices they had used on the old radio series (Amos & Andy) for the main characters on the cartoon. You can find some episodes to watch on you tube, even though the show was made in color it was broadcast in black & white and the episodes on you tube are also in B & W.
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Post by slf on Aug 29, 2016 20:01:16 GMT -5
One more thing about Freeman Gosden & Charles Correll, they provided the voices for a cartoon series that ran in 1961-62 on ABC TV. The series was Calvin & The Colonel and they used the same voices they had used on the old radio series (Amos & Andy) for the main characters on the cartoon. You can find some episodes to watch on you tube, even though the show was made in color it was broadcast in black & white and the episodes on you tube are also in B & W. I've never seen an episode of "Calvin & the Colonel", but I've read about it. The title characters were a cartoon bear and a cartoon fox, respectively. They were created to be noncontroversial substitutes for the supposedly offensive black characters Andy Brown and the Kingfish from "Amos & Andy".
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