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You realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used

by m12k 5y ago

You realize how much you're a product of your time, when you hear a piece of music being played[1] and your first thought is that it must be satire. I'm so used to music from that era being satirized (e.g. in the Fallout games) that my mind had a hard to accepting that something like that could be sung unironically. [1] https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a-four-leaf-clover_jerry-murads-harmonicats-harry-woods-mort-dick_gbia0056866a/I%27m%20Looking%20over%20a%20Four%20Leaf%20C%20-%20Jerry%20Murad%27s%20Harmonicats.mp3 https://ia601004.us.archive.org/2/items/78_im-looking-over-a...

subpixel 5y ago
You just need to listen to more WKHR! (wkhr.org) It’s a radio station in a Cleveland high school with octogenarian djs playing 78s!
- jrexilius 5y ago
  Thanks for this! Really enjoying the music and DJs.
  - westcort 5y ago
    So cool! This could be a great model for keeping this kind of music and style of DJing going.
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n4bz0r 5y ago
It's been years, and I'm still very suspicious about this one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo https://youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo
- n4bz0r 5y ago
  Turns out, my spider-sense wasn't off. Here is an interesting comment from YT by "stephen wallin": As so many query whether the Lyrics were understood in the 1920's I got a friend to check BBC archive and the record was never broadcast on the radio, indicting deep problems, and a note still exists that it was banned for sexual innuendo. So the double entendre was fully noticed as soon as the disk came out. It however sold well!! There was a market for such disks, many dance bands did them, notably Bill Cotton. Harry Roy was noted as having a wicked sense of fun, he loved playing prank versions of songs. You have to appreciate that the English audiences loved such lyrics and jokes, Max Miller made a whole career on such comic material.
- ThinkingGuy 5y ago
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wizardforhire 5y ago
Small aside, all those songs in fallout are not satire nor new. They're authentic pieces from the forties and early fifties.
- joshstrange 5y ago
  Mostly yes but a few were made for the game [0]. [0] https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_soundtrack#Diamond_City_Radio https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_soundtrack#Diamond... (Search for "2015" to find them)

by m12k 5y ago

subpixel 5y ago

You just need to listen to more WKHR! (wkhr.org) It’s a radio station in a Cleveland high school with octogenarian djs playing 78s!

jrexilius 5y ago
Thanks for this! Really enjoying the music and DJs.
- westcort 5y ago
  So cool! This could be a great model for keeping this kind of music and style of DJing going.

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n4bz0r 5y ago

It's been years, and I'm still very suspicious about this one: https://youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo https://youtube.com/watch?v=WIfcKy-VcXo

n4bz0r 5y ago
Turns out, my spider-sense wasn't off. Here is an interesting comment from YT by "stephen wallin": As so many query whether the Lyrics were understood in the 1920's I got a friend to check BBC archive and the record was never broadcast on the radio, indicting deep problems, and a note still exists that it was banned for sexual innuendo. So the double entendre was fully noticed as soon as the disk came out. It however sold well!! There was a market for such disks, many dance bands did them, notably Bill Cotton. Harry Roy was noted as having a wicked sense of fun, he loved playing prank versions of songs. You have to appreciate that the English audiences loved such lyrics and jokes, Max Miller made a whole career on such comic material.
ThinkingGuy 5y ago
More info here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Girl%27s_Pussy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Girl%27s_Pussy

wizardforhire 5y ago

Small aside, all those songs in fallout are not satire nor new. They're authentic pieces from the forties and early fifties.

joshstrange 5y ago
Mostly yes but a few were made for the game [0]. [0] https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_soundtrack#Diamond_City_Radio https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Fallout_4_soundtrack#Diamond... (Search for "2015" to find them)