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Post by mga707 on May 25, 2021 11:04:34 GMT -5
Any song by America! Yeah, they use the word "ain't" in both of their #1 hits. "...Oz never did give nothin' to the Tin Man..."
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Post by 80sat40fan on May 28, 2021 14:05:34 GMT -5
Besides the BTO, Joe Tex and REO Speedwagon's "ain't" songs already mentioned, these songs also ain't got good grammar from the Casey Kasem era...
* "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" by Diana Ross * "Ain't No Sunshine" by Bill Withers * "Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got" by The Four Tops * "Ain't No Way To Treat A Lady" by Helen Reddy * "Two Out Of Three Ain't Bad" by Meat Loaf * "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" by McFadden & Whithead * "I Ain't Gonna Stand For It" by Stevie Wonder * "Ain't Even Done With The Night" by John Cougar * "Ain't Nobody" by Rufus w/ Chaka Khan * "It Ain't Enough" by Corey Hart * "Just A Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" by David Lee Roth
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Post by mga707 on May 28, 2021 15:58:03 GMT -5
* "I Ain't Gonna Stand For It" by Stevie Wonder Ah, yes--I knew there was another 'doubly bad' "Ain't Gonna" song from the Casey era, but just couldn't place it. That's it!
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Post by pb on May 28, 2021 18:27:28 GMT -5
Bread - "Baby I'm A Want You"
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Post by Michael1973 on May 29, 2021 9:41:13 GMT -5
Another one with the bad grammar right in the title: 1974-75, J. Geils Band, "Must Of Got Lost". This is one of my biggest grammar pet peeves, and to my dismay I recently learned that so many people make this error that some dictionaries now list it as acceptable.
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Post by LC on May 29, 2021 22:13:06 GMT -5
It wasn't during the AT40 era, but somebody's got to mention the granddaddy of bad grammar, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction."
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Post by mga707 on May 30, 2021 11:55:32 GMT -5
It wasn't during the AT40 era, but somebody's got to mention the granddaddy of bad grammar, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." "Ain't That a Shame" predates it by a decade. Fats Domino and Pat Boone, 1955. Four Seasons remade it in '63, and in the Casey era, Cheap Trick in '79.
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Post by LC on May 30, 2021 22:29:06 GMT -5
It wasn't during the AT40 era, but somebody's got to mention the granddaddy of bad grammar, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction." "Ain't That a Shame" predates it by a decade. Fats Domino and Pat Boone, 1955. Four Seasons remade it in '63, and in the Casey era, Cheap Trick in '79. But the word "ain't" has been a subject of considerable debate regarding whether or not it can be considered acceptable usage. Therefore, I'm inclined to give it a pass when used in a song title. Many of the others cited in this thread, however, are unambiguously bad usage.
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Post by friarboy on May 31, 2021 8:40:27 GMT -5
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Post by darnall42 on May 31, 2021 8:54:53 GMT -5
Pink Floyd "We Don't Need No Education" in another brick in the wall ,which is a double negative (my spell checker/grammar checker is having trouble allowing me to write that )
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Post by pb on May 31, 2021 10:00:12 GMT -5
It's a satirical article, but a pretty funny one.
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Post by friarboy on May 31, 2021 11:02:12 GMT -5
In this thread board members prove they know just exactly what the facts is.
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Post by Michael1973 on Jun 10, 2021 15:29:40 GMT -5
In "I Like It," Dino sings, "That's the things I like to do when I'm with you."
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Post by Hervard on Jun 11, 2021 9:15:36 GMT -5
I could swear that I heard Jason Mraz sing "I gots the remedy".
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Post by friarboy on Jun 13, 2021 9:05:03 GMT -5
Her and Bobby were stepping out Her and Bobby didn't know I found out
- Lee Michaels, "Do You Know what I Mean"
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