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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Sept 30, 2022 13:55:17 GMT
Smash hits where the song dropped a sports superstars name.
Go! 
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Post by kiwi on Sept 30, 2022 13:59:30 GMT
"Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio?
Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you..."
Mrs. Robinson
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Post by klawrencio79 on Sept 30, 2022 14:10:52 GMT
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Post by klawrencio79 on Sept 30, 2022 14:11:56 GMT
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Sept 30, 2022 14:13:23 GMT
"Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you..." Mrs. Robinson Fun story about that, DiMaggio was annoyed by those lyrics. He hadn't gone anywhere, as far as he was concerned.
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Post by sdm3 on Sept 30, 2022 14:15:21 GMT
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Post by kiwi on Sept 30, 2022 14:17:24 GMT
"Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you..." Mrs. Robinson Fun story about that, DiMaggio was annoyed by those lyrics. He hadn't gone anywhere, as far as he was concerned. Great melody but the lyrics made no sense. "Mother and Child Reunion" - sweet, sentimental title - was inspired by Paul Simon's seeing a chicken and egg item on a Chinese menu.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Sept 30, 2022 20:51:44 GMT
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Post by masterofallgoons on Sept 30, 2022 20:57:13 GMT
"Where have you gone Joe DiMaggio? Our nation turns its lonely eyes to you..." Mrs. Robinson Fun story about that, DiMaggio was annoyed by those lyrics. He hadn't gone anywhere, as far as he was concerned. Also, Paul Simon knew Mickey Mantle a bit and Mickey asked him why he used DiMaggio's name instead of his, and Paul Simon said, 'It's all about syllables.' |
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Sept 30, 2022 21:00:06 GMT
Well, this little ditty from 1930 comes to mind:
Who is it that all Australia raves about?
Who has won our very highest praise?
Now it isn't Amy Johnson or little Mickey Mouse
No! It's just a country lad who's bringing down the house.
And he's
Our Don Bradman
And I ask you is he any good?
Our Don Bradman
When he goes in to bat
He knocks every record flat
For there isn't anything he can not do
Our Don Bradman
Every Aussie dips his lid to you.
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Post by hoskotafe3 on Sept 30, 2022 21:03:53 GMT
And Aussie Rules footballer Roy Cazaly
"Up there Cazaly
In there and fight!
Out there and at em
Show em your might
Up there Cazaly
Don't let them in
Fly like an angel
You're out there to win!"
Fun fact: Aussie soldiers would use the phrase Up There Cazaly as a rallying cry in the trenches during WW2.
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Post by 尺ロㄈにモイ州凡几 on Sept 30, 2022 21:18:10 GMT
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Post by kiwi on Sept 30, 2022 22:39:19 GMT
Fun story about that, DiMaggio was annoyed by those lyrics. He hadn't gone anywhere, as far as he was concerned. Also, Paul Simon knew Mickey Mantle a bit and Mickey asked him why he used DiMaggio's name instead of his, and Paul Simon said, 'It's all about syllables.' Yeah, the rhyming O's - Joe DiMaggio There goes rhymin' Simon. 
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Post by Rufus-T on Sept 30, 2022 23:56:20 GMT
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Post by NJtoTX on Oct 1, 2022 0:24:09 GMT
Dylan - I Shall Be Free
What I want to know, Mr. Football Man, is
What do you do about Willie Mays
Martin Luther King
Olatunji
Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray
South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio
Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, Television
North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-Bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom
Brando, The King And I, and The Catcher In The Rye
Eisenhower, Vaccine, England's got a new queen
Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev
Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc
Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, Dacron
Dien Bien Phu Falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn's got a winning team
Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland
Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Khrushchev
Princess Grace, Peyton Place, Trouble in the Suez
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac
Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge On The River Kwai
Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball
Starkweather Homicide, Children of Thalidomide...
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land
Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion
Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania
Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 1, 2022 14:13:18 GMT
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Post by NJtoTX on Oct 1, 2022 14:42:26 GMT
Basketball is my favorite sport
I like the way they dribble up and down the court
Just like I'm the king on the microphone, so is Dr. J and Moses Malone
Tell me, were you in the joint
The night Wilt scored 100 points?
Or when Celtics won titles back-to-back
And didn't give nobody no kind of slack?
Or when Dr. J shook the whole damn team
With moves that came right out of a dream?
Or when Willis Reed stood so tall
Playing D with desire? It's basketball!
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Oct 1, 2022 18:16:19 GMT
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Post by DrKrippen on Oct 2, 2022 8:05:13 GMT
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Post by DrKrippen on Oct 2, 2022 8:11:43 GMT
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