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Post by OldSchoolAT40Fan on Sept 17, 2017 17:32:31 GMT -5
Irene Cara had a song called "Breakdance" in the spring of 1984.
I mean, who even break dances these days? Such dancing can injure a person.
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Post by OnWithTheCountdown on Sept 17, 2017 17:58:14 GMT -5
From "Bug-A-Boo" by Destiny's Child: "Tell MCI to cut the phone calls" Tell who?Makes 1999 feel like it was so long ago...
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Post by mga707 on Sept 17, 2017 23:07:51 GMT -5
From "Bug-A-Boo" by Destiny's Child: "Tell MCI to cut the phone calls" Tell who?Yes, who bought out/took over MCI? I'd totally forgotten that there once was at AT&T competitor with the same initials as the airport code for Kansas City (Mid-Continent) International Airport!
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Post by laura on Sept 17, 2017 23:20:30 GMT -5
From "Bug-A-Boo" by Destiny's Child: "Tell MCI to cut the phone calls" Tell who?Yes, who bought out/took over MCI? I'd totally forgotten that there once was at AT&T competitor with the same initials as the airport code for Kansas City (Mid-Continent) International Airport! According to Wikipedia, Verizon bought them out in 2006.
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Post by mkarns on Sept 18, 2017 0:13:38 GMT -5
The main sports/concert arena in downtown Washington, DC was originally called the MCI Center when it opened about 20 years ago, then it became the Verizon Center. Now it's the Capital One Arena, where I'll be going on Tuesday night to see Ed Sheeran, who is a member of the elite Double Digit Weeks at #1 on AT40 With One Song Club.
In general, the telephone and other communications devices are a fertile source for dated lyrics. While a few posts up a Bon Jovi song from the 1990s was mentioned for referring to a payphone, as recently as 2012 Maroon 5 were able to hit #1 with a song called "Payphone", which of course had become an anachronism largely lost to many listeners sometime before.
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Post by lasvegaskid on Nov 5, 2017 22:48:29 GMT -5
Raspberries: Overnight Sensation
If you can get it in the A-slot It's just got to make a mint for you
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Post by matt on Nov 7, 2017 12:30:18 GMT -5
Yes, who bought out/took over MCI? I'd totally forgotten that there once was at AT&T competitor with the same initials as the airport code for Kansas City (Mid-Continent) International Airport! According to Wikipedia, Verizon bought them out in 2006. Verizon bought them out after there was much speculation between them and Sprint as the top bidders for MCI. Before that, a company called WorldCom was in the process of buying them around 2001 or so until WorldCom experienced an Enron-type collapse when the same type of books-cooking and corruption turned up. Their CEO in that time is probably out of jail now, but I believe he did some time for it all...
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Post by lasvegaskid on Mar 16, 2018 21:22:16 GMT -5
Pump Up The Volume...M/A/R/R/S
'put the needle on the record'
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Post by mga707 on Mar 16, 2018 21:27:43 GMT -5
Pump Up The Volume...M/A/R/R/S 'put the needle on the record' Haven't you heard, vinyl is back! Of course, for me, it never went away...
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Post by lasvegaskid on Apr 10, 2018 17:33:55 GMT -5
Cliff Richard: Carrie
You're just another message On a payphone wall
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Post by lasvegaskid on Jun 26, 2018 11:04:21 GMT -5
Rockin' Rod: Motown Song
I got plans for us Playing like a skip on a record Through my head all night long
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Post by at40nut on Jun 27, 2018 2:38:57 GMT -5
In MC Hammer's "Have You Seen Her" from 1990, he opens with his dialogue-"Ah Yeah I'm glad I put this tape in"
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Post by Michael1973 on Aug 2, 2018 14:04:23 GMT -5
Motownphilly:
"Boyz II Men...ABC...BBD"
The acronyms refer to fellow R&B groups Another Bad Creation and Bell Biv Devoe. Some people today might remember the latter, but I doubt anyone remembers the former. (Anybody who remembers "ABC" today is likely thinking of the British group who sang "Poison Arrow.")
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Post by Jessica on Aug 12, 2018 3:04:00 GMT -5
Don’t think this has been mentioned yet, In "Crazy About Her" Rod Stewart mentions the now obsolete Walkman.
I see her jogging in Central Park, with one of those Walkman’s on her head She was hot,young and beautiful And I said to myself She’s destined to be mine
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Post by lasvegaskid on Dec 2, 2018 23:15:17 GMT -5
A couple from Elt's Croc Rock:
While the other kids were Rocking Round the Clock
Long nights crying by the record machine
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