Anachronistic Songs, Part 2 of 2

"Anachronistic Songs, Part 1 of 2" covered blasts from the past WRT another-era terms (example: "groove") and some terminology definition shifts (ex: example: "straight"). This part continues with unPC-ness, dimes and related costs, and years. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/01/anachronistic-songs-part-2-of-2.html and comment there, please.

Anachronistic Songs, Part 1 of 2

Common characteristics of an anachronistic song, usually the song having been out at least a few decades ago:

• It includes a term that was popular or a norm in a particular era "long ago".
• It includes a term that the definition has shifted over time.
• It is more likely now to be considered culturally or politically insensitive than in the past.
• It contains reference to a year number.

Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2014/01/anachronistic-songs-part-1-of-2.html and comment there, please.

Economy in Song Lyrics

How can song lyrics be economical? I write about three types:

1. Songs with expressions repeatedly peppered throughout
2. Instrumentals with the song title in it, frequently with few or no additional words
3. Songs that have one verse, repeated one or more times

Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2013/12/economy-in-song-lyrics.html and comment there, please.

Post-TDay Travel--Part 3 of 3

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This article is the third of three parts of the Thanksgiving week travel theme. In the first article, I wrote about songs about planes, trains, and cars, based on the movie title Trains, Planes, and Automobiles. Part 2 is about water travel songs—boats, surfboards, submarines, ….

This article covers the rest of the travel modes I can think of. I've listed songs, artists, lyrics sites, and video sites (if possible). Take another trip down memory lane with the third batch of songs I’ve compiled. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/12/post-tday-travel-part-3-of-3.html and comment there, please.

Post-TDay Travel--Water Water Everywhere

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This article is the second of three parts about songs and travel, originally based on the movie title Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Take a trip down memory lane with songs I’ve compiled that feature travel and water, one major travel method not in the movie title. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/11/post-tday-travel-water-water-everywhere.html and comment there, please.

Turkey Week Travel--Planes, Trains N Cars

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Planes, Trains & Automobiles, which came out in 1987, stars Steve Martin and John Candy. Take a trip down memory lane with songs I’ve compiled that feature the movie's travel means. Read the entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/11/turkey-week-travel-planestrains-n-cars.html and comment there, please.

Bad-Prose Rants from Lady Wawa

This is my technical communicator parody (abbreviated) of Lady Gaga’s monster hit “Bad Romance”. Her Youtube video is approaching 200,000,000 views. For related videos and lyrics, do Google searches. Note: Lyrics accuracy varies among sites. Lyricsmode.com, which I used for most of my research and initial lyrics, had the best accuracy contrasted with other lyrics sites.

Bad-Prose Rants from Lady Wawa

Uh oh uh oh oh oh no no no no no no,
Your doc seems pretty poor.
…

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/04/bad-prose-rants-from-lady-wawa.html.]

Technical Communications Means

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Telephone and mail correspondence—mostly referenced in songs, movies, and a few TV shows are the technical communications means I'm talking about. At the time of those media release, they reflected the prevailing technology for non-f2f interactions. Back then, letters did not reach recipients within seconds, older phone calls person-to-person required manual dialing on a rotary dial (woe if numbers were 8s, 9s, or zeros and your dialing finger slipped), and there was no Caller ID nor answering machine. Cheap mass mailing? Fuggedaboutit!…

• Songs that Feature Letters
• Songs that Feature Phones
• Movies that Feature Phones and Letters
• TV Shows that Feature Phones

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/03/technical-communications-means_09.html.]

Body Parts Express

Earlier this week, I heard Huey Lewis' "Hip to be Square"—a song I hadn't heard on the radio for a long time. It struck me this time about "hip" as a body part. I find it odd to think of a body part having a positive connotation as "hip" seems to have. Sure, in the context of the song, hip is a desirable attribute. Soooo, I decided to hop on the hip (no hip-hop or hippity-hoppity) train and mentally wander from cowcatcher to caboose and back and forth to collect tidbits and tidbytes for this article.

I started to think about other hip uses and also other body parts. …

[Read entire article at http://whilldtkwriter.blogspot.com/2010/02/body-parts-express.html.]