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Post by woolebull on Dec 26, 2012 8:43:52 GMT -5
In his song, "It Was A Good Day" Ice Cube, as part of his good day, mentioned that the "Lakers beat the Supersonics".
20 years later, someone hearing that today for the first time could not know who the Supersonics are because they are now not the Seattle Supersonics. They are the Oklahoma City Thunder.
What Top 40 hit from the Casey era that made sense when it came out could someone hear today and say, "what are they talking about"?
Thanks to Pamelajaye for bringing up how a song like "Teddy Bear" would be seen totally different in today's world!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 9:32:07 GMT -5
Super Bowl Shuffle by the Bears. People would look at them and be amazed they finished a season strong .
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Post by at40petebattistini on Dec 26, 2012 9:32:57 GMT -5
Not a lyric but...
The song "Just Seven Numbers (Can Straighten Out My Life)" by the Four Tops, which barely reached the Top 40 in early 1971, featured the sound effect of a telephone's rotary dial.
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Post by tarobe on Dec 26, 2012 9:33:35 GMT -5
Any trucker song in from the mid-1970s. "Convoy," C.W. McCall; "White Knight," Cledus Maggard; "Teddy Bear," Red Sovine. Most CB lingo is out of date and not familiar to the general public today. "Breaker" "Bear" Your "20" "Back door"
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Post by mga707 on Dec 26, 2012 9:53:59 GMT -5
Although it predates AT40 by nearly a decade, Casey did play it at least once: In late 78/early 79, when AT40 counted down the #1s of the 60s, 3 per show: The biggest hit of 1961, Bobby Lewis' "Tossin' and Turnin'". "The clock downstairs was striking four/I heard the milkman at the door..."
Yes, I'm old enough to remember milkmen!
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 10:02:59 GMT -5
There was a local dairy who tried to do the milk deliveries in the early 90s in Jacksonville. Had it not been for that short lived attempt by them, I would have never been around for it.
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Post by mga707 on Dec 26, 2012 10:20:17 GMT -5
Most CB lingo is out of date and not familiar to the general public today. "Breaker" "Bear" Your "20" "Back door" Agree that three of these are probably trucker-specific, but "What's your 20?" is pretty well-understood to mean "Where are you at?", probably because it had been used (and continues to be used) by law enforcement long before the CB craze of the '70s.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 26, 2012 10:25:14 GMT -5
Speaking of sound effects, how about the typewriter sound effect from Dolly Parton's "9 to 5"?
I was going to suggest any song referencing payphones since we're in the age of cellphones, but that would also include the recent Maroon 5 hit "Payphone" (and payphones probably haven't completely gone away, unlike things like milkmen and CB radios).
How about references to vinyl record singles? Billy Joel's "Keeping the Faith" has "going to listen to my 45s". Blue Oyster Cult's "Burnin' For You" has "time to play B-sides". I would include references to vinyl records in general but those seem to be making a comeback.
This thread reminds me of an old book I found recently, referring to things that were once very popular but have since gone away. It included things like the Automat, earth shoes, the Brown Derby restaurant, etc.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 26, 2012 10:43:35 GMT -5
I'll give another for Sylvia's Mother. While more commonplace for women to leave to go get married elsewhere and mom/parents not going for the ceremony. That's not really a common thing nowadays, at least not that I see.
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Post by blackbowl68 on Dec 26, 2012 10:57:00 GMT -5
I wasn't even alive when this came out, but I doubt anyone in 1958 had any idea what a "Purple People Eater" was. (I'm even certain neither Hendrix or Prince have a clue.)
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Post by mkarns on Dec 26, 2012 13:26:43 GMT -5
1972 - Operator Jim Croce "You can keep the dime." 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. Furthermore, where I live, and in many other places, a phone call now requires ten digits, not seven (also noted in the Four Tops song mentioned above, and, for that matter, the 2 Live Crew's "Me So Horny", from 1989.)
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Post by cursereversed on Dec 26, 2012 13:28:20 GMT -5
The version that Casey played was a remake but how about "Wonderful World" by Art Garfunkel with James Taylor and Paul Simon? It includes the line "Don't know what a slide rule is for". Most people today wouldn't know what a slide rule was if you gave them one, let alone what it was for.
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Post by jlthorpe on Dec 26, 2012 14:11:43 GMT -5
Furthermore, where I live, and in many other places, a phone call now requires ten digits, not seven (also noted in the Four Tops song mentioned above, and, for that matter, the 2 Live Crew's "Me So Horny", from 1989.) Or what about songs with references to older phone numbers like "Beechwood 4-5789"?
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Post by JMW on Dec 26, 2012 14:11:58 GMT -5
1972 - Operator Jim Croce "You can keep the dime." 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")
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Post by woolebull on Dec 26, 2012 14:44:00 GMT -5
Super Bowl Shuffle by the Bears. People would look at them and be amazed they finished a season strong . That might be the truest quote ever said on this here board. Might I add whenever, "Super Bowl Shuffle" and , "Me So Horny" are part of the same thread, that's a good thread! So combining the anachronism of "SBS" and adding the 2 Live Crew as well, you could also include Mary Wilson's "Telephone Man" to the list as well
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