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- From: mlsa@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (MICHAEL LAUREN SHERMAN)
- Newsgroups: rec.puzzles
- Subject: Re: Songs containing states
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.000420.43219@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 00:04:20 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1992Nov20.141510.9185@linkoping.trab.se>, ath@linkoping.trab.se (And
- ers Thulin) writes:
- >In article <1e5k5mINN7di@gap.caltech.edu> carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU writes:
- >>=
- >>= Chattanooga Choo Choo
- >>= ---------------------
- >>
- >>Most versions begin with a prologue:
- >>
- >> Hi there pal, what you say?
- >> Step aside partner it's my day.
- >> Bend an ear and listen to my version
- >> Of a really solid Tennessee excursion.
- >
- >This is not a real part of the Chattanooga Choo-Choo song. It's the
- >usual intro Tex Beneke used to do when he occasionally graced the
- >microphone in Glenn Miller's band.
- >
- >The first line is Glenn's question, the last three Tex's response.
- >
- >There were several other occasions when similar intro's were done.
- >'The little man who wasn't there' is one I remember.
- >
- >--
- >
- >But since Tennessee *is* mentioned in the song, it obviosly belongs on
- >the list. Or is someone collecting songs where a state is mentioned
- >twice?
- >
- >--
- >Anders Thulin ath@linkoping.trab.se 013-23 55 32
- >Telia Research AB, Teknikringen 2B, S-583 30 Linkoping, Sweden
- >
- I don't know if this is still on going, but what about Huey Lewis' Heart of
- Rock and Roll, Jagger and Bowie's Dancing in the streets, Almost any state
- song, James Taylor's Going to Carolina in my mind.
- --
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