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| + | This band changed its name to The Reivers, after William Faulkner's last novel, which he wrote in three days [<< I just saw this fact in my notes, but I can't find it now; wikipedia doesn't mention this; wikipedia says it was a best-seller, but also that it was not critically well-regarded]. I recently saw the Steve McQueen (1969) movie based on that novel -- pretty good movie, I thought | ||
| ====== Repetition, rhyming, alliterativeness, and "palindromitiveness" in Abba titles ====== | ====== Repetition, rhyming, alliterativeness, and "palindromitiveness" in Abba titles ====== | ||
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| - | Sam Cooke/Aretha Frank | + | Sam Cooke/Aretha Franklin |
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| - | ====== Two (cryptic) soul song titles with a similar structure ====== | ||
| + | ====== Cryptic Soul Song Titles ====== | ||
| - | == == | ||
| + | ==== New Entry ==== | ||
| - | //One Monkey Don't Stop No Show// -- Honeycone | + | //I'll Kill a Brick about My Man//, Hot Sauce |
| + | ==== Older Entries ==== | ||
| - | == == | ||
| - | + | //One Monkey Don't Stop No Show// -- Honeycone | |
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| - | Written by Joe Tex | + | |
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| - | //One Chain Don't Make No Prison// -- Four Tops | + | Written by Joe Tex |
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| - | ====== Song titles in which the song title is of an internally referenced song ====== | + | ==== ==== |
| + | //One Chain Don't Make No Prison// -- Four Tops | ||
| - | == == | ||
| - | //Tennessee Waltz// -- Patti Page | ||
| + | ====== Portmanteau Songs ====== | ||
| + | In which the song title is an internally referenced song (//portmanteau// probably doesn't mean this) | ||
| + | ==== New Entry ==== | ||
| - | == == | + | //Oh Yeah//, Roxy Music -- "they're playin' Oh Yeah on the radio" |
| + | ==== Earlier Entries ==== | ||
| - | //Kentucky Waltz// -- Bill Monroe | ||
| + | //Tennessee Waltz//, Patti Page | ||
| + | //Kentucky Waltz//, Bill Monroe | ||
| - | == == | + | //Truck Drivin' Man//, George Hamilton IV |
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| - | //Truck Drivin' Man// -- George Hamilton IV | + | |
