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Post by artsmusic on Dec 26, 2012 14:55:26 GMT -5
1989, "She said I'll show ya how to fax in the mailroom honey" Love In an Elevator. This might be the only song I recall having this in the lyrics. Faxes still used, but not like they were in the mainstream pre-internet business days.
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Post by atruefan on Dec 26, 2012 15:15:00 GMT -5
One song title that makes little to no sense today...."Kodachrome."
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Post by michaelcasselman on Dec 26, 2012 15:37:19 GMT -5
Pac-Man Fever: You mean you actually had to leave your home to play video games, to say nothing about feeding quarters into a machine? And it wasn't some first-person shoot-'em-up game, either?
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 15:56:32 GMT -5
Might not be as foreign as you think. I still see coin op games like that in various locations. Especially the Ms PAC Man/Galaga combo one.
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Post by pamelajaye on Dec 26, 2012 17:00:11 GMT -5
ooh... ,I've always wondered what an Automat was! CB radios still exist, fairly sure. I mean outside of trucks. But we used to have one in our house. Drove me nuts when I was listening to my stereo and I'd get Breaker 19. I'm sure there's an example on one of my Cassette Tapes (songs mention those? pretty sure 8 tracks are in a song. yes I skipped some posts going back after, so I will see them.) Neighbors up the street had a milk man I saw him one time. Before I moved to FL I was unable to dial 7 numbers and get someone on the phone from Salem, MA. I put a 1 and area code in my speed dial. I remember what where those numbers you could call for cheap long distance? 10-10-321? and the old days of Sprint where you had to dial your code... we didn't have touch tone either and I remember nightmares of missing that last digit. Song reference, probably not Top 40 - Breaking Up Is Hard On You. woolebull - I spent half an hour on Wikipedia after reading those lyrics! Fun thread idea! Thanks!
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Post by pamelajaye on Dec 26, 2012 17:11:06 GMT -5
Wish I could say Don't know what a slide rule is for. First lesson 11th grade Chemistry (oddly, the only class I ever flunked) My brother got a $70 calculator right around then... I have to go listen to more oldies. (loved the typewriter sound and my best friend has a striking 4 type clock on her dining room wall, so fun when sleeping. But nowadays even clocks with hands are much less common. btw, I hear Cursive is no longer taught. Is writing in any songs? (yes, I mean as opposed to printing) Off to lyric land...
PS I recently learned the Philadelphia Freedom still exist. I always felt so proud that I knew they were a .... tennis? team.
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Post by pamelajaye on Dec 26, 2012 17:23:54 GMT -5
Come Dancing, which should be representative of this topic, had Big Bands (I think kids might not know what those were, and I wouldn't either but my parents liked all of that.) What was that place where his sister used to go to dance? At the Hop (sorry, not the 70s, but I'm rereading Rock Roll and Remember (along with The Me Generation by Me) I'm drowning in 60s! Up next, a book about 16 magazine. Did Bandstand Boogie ever make the 40?
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Post by Hervard on Dec 26, 2012 17:26:19 GMT -5
In 1982 Tommy Tutone's "867-5309/Jenny" said a phone call was "for the price of a dime". By the early 1980s I think it was a quarter in most places. Another song mentioning dimes in regards to phones: Baby Come to Me ("spending every dime to keep you talkin' on the line") Still another song that mentions dimes - "I Love Rock And Roll" by Joan Jett & The Blackhearts. "So put another dime in the juke box baby". With today's juke boxes, which themselves are becoming somewhat obsolete, songs cost at least 50 cents. A dime would get you just a verse, if that.
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Post by pamelajaye on Dec 26, 2012 17:32:05 GMT -5
it didn't If the button is pushed there's no running away. Do you think kids know about the button? Nikita is full of reference to the Soviet Bloc countries' ...tactics. And then there is Disco... What do they call it today?
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Post by baylink on Dec 26, 2012 17:34:35 GMT -5
"Listen to the countdown; they're playin' our song again."
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Post by pamelajaye on Dec 26, 2012 17:40:03 GMT -5
I'm going to bet that if you were Going to San Francisco today, you would not find Gentle people with flowers in their hair, in the streets.
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Post by at40petebattistini on Dec 26, 2012 18:34:33 GMT -5
"America needs you, Harry Truman. Harry, won't you please come home?"
Harry Truman -- who's that?
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Post by pamelajaye on Dec 26, 2012 18:48:10 GMT -5
the son AT40, News, Weather, and Sports mentions Patrice Lumumba (had to look him up) and probably a lot more - but I can't imagine it was a Top 40 hit, ironically. Great song by Mark Dinning anyway. (And it should have popped to mind when my brother mention Pop Muzik, but instead was resurrected by Pete's post)
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Post by pamelajaye on Dec 26, 2012 18:52:20 GMT -5
Where did you go, Joe DiMaggio? I think he was selling coffee makers on TV but I must have missed those ads. I don't think *I* knew who he was.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 26, 2012 19:07:59 GMT -5
"America needs you, Harry Truman. Harry, won't you please come home?" Harry Truman -- who's that? If we're dealing with historical references, most of the song "We Didn't Start The Fire" would be unrecognizable.
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