TSF readers have added to the list of print media music and lyrics, including a song by the Beatles. Plus a few more obscure titles.
Pat Conroy in Barrie sent us this song:
That's Life (That's Tough), by Gabriel & The Angels (1962):
What's tough?
Life
What's life?
A magazine
Well how much does it cost?
It costs twenty cents
But I only got a nickel
Woah, oh well that's tough
It costs twenty cents
But I only got a nickel
Woah, oh well that's tough
Dennis Earl over at The Writings Of Dennis Earl blog, provided a few print media lyrics and says:
"You might be surprised to know this, but there are a ton of songs inspired by newspapers and journalism in general. (Just click here, for starters.)
Paperback Writer - The Beatles (1966): "His son is working for The Daily Mail/It's a steady job, but he wants to be a paperback writer"
"You might be surprised to know this, but there are a ton of songs inspired by newspapers and journalism in general. (Just click here, for starters.)
Paperback Writer - The Beatles (1966): "His son is working for The Daily Mail/It's a steady job, but he wants to be a paperback writer"
Space Oddity - David Bowie (1969): "And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear"
Welcome To The Working Week - Elvis Costello (1977): "Now that your picture's in the paper/Being rhythmically admired"
Stayin' Alive - Bee Gees (1977): "We can try to understand/The New York Times' effect on man"
In My Tree - Pearl Jam (1996): "Up here in my tree, yeah/Newspapers matter not to me, yeah/No more crowbars to my head, yeah/I'm trading stories with the leaves instead, yeah"
History Repeating - Propellerheads featuring Shirley Bassey (1998): "The newspapers shout a new style is growing/But it don't know if it's coming or going/There is fashion, there is fad/Some is good, some is bad/And the joke is rather sad"
History Repeating - Propellerheads featuring Shirley Bassey (1998): "The newspapers shout a new style is growing/But it don't know if it's coming or going/There is fashion, there is fad/Some is good, some is bad/And the joke is rather sad"
The Way I Am - Eminem (2000): "And all of this controversy circles me/And it seems like the media immediately/Points a finger at me/So I point one back at 'em/But not the index or pinky. And I am whatever you say I am/If I wasn't, then why would I say I am?/In the paper, everyday I am"
Spooky Girlfriend - Elvis Costello (2002): "Newspapers play with the words of the fanatic"
Spooky Girlfriend - Elvis Costello (2002): "Newspapers play with the words of the fanatic"
Thanks for the song lyrics, Pat and Earl.
Print media is something to sing about.
Hey There
ReplyDeleteOne more for the list.... J Giels Band “Centrefold”
”The years go by I’m looking through a girlie magazine
And there’s my homeroom angel on the pages in between”
”My blood runs cold, my memory has just been sold
My angel is the centrefold” and so on.
Great old tune
Another Elvis Costello tune is 'Fish and Chip Paper':
ReplyDelete'Yesterday's news is tomorrow's fish and chip paper.'
Perhaps it is best forgotten, but worth a mention is the 2002 Broadway musical version of one of the best newspaper movies of all time, "Sweet Smell of Success" (movie was 1957, starring Tony Curtis and Burt Lancaster; musical was written by John Guare and Marvin Hamlisch and starred John Lithgow as columnist J.J. Hunsecker).
ReplyDeleteI saw it during its brief and poorly-reviewed Broadway run and can attest that it really did not work as a musical - but the less-than-catchy songs remain, for what it's worth, including the opening number "The Column" and "Dirt," both about the sleazy biz of columnists and publicists.
Look it up on Wikipedia if you're interested- there's even a cast recording available via Amazon.
-Linda Williamson
Did anybody mention "My Baby Loves a Bunch of Authors" by Moxy Fruvous? You can't beat this lyric:
ReplyDeleteSo I got myself on a streetcar and it drove right into someone,
You know the driver said:
"I was lookin' straight ahead!"
But he was reading the Toronto Sun