Post by gw on May 19, 2023 23:53:10 GMT
Let's talk about basic song themes and how they've been refined to suit the styles of the time.
There's the song In the Pines asking where the singer is asking where their lover slept last night. I lost track of this sort of theme until the 1980s with Ankie Bagger's Where Were You Last Night? It was probably explored in country or blues between those times but I don't know where to look. Maybe ChatGPT would have some answers that Google couldn't give me. It was then reprised by La Bouche in the 90's with Where Do You Go? which was covered more successfully by No Mercy.
Then there's the 'you're at my door but you can't come in' sort of theme. Keep a Knockin' was first recorded in the late 20's. I can't find out for sure who recorded it first or who first wrote it. There's some answer songs, like Open the Door Richard, recorded in the late 40's. In the late 50's Little Richard recorded the rock and roll version that the most people are probably familiar with. The Men at Work song Who Can it Be Now? takes the song idea in a new direction with the person behind the door commenting on their mental state.
So what do you all think? I'm hardly the most musically well versed person here so someone else must have noticed some trends.
There's the song In the Pines asking where the singer is asking where their lover slept last night. I lost track of this sort of theme until the 1980s with Ankie Bagger's Where Were You Last Night? It was probably explored in country or blues between those times but I don't know where to look. Maybe ChatGPT would have some answers that Google couldn't give me. It was then reprised by La Bouche in the 90's with Where Do You Go? which was covered more successfully by No Mercy.
Then there's the 'you're at my door but you can't come in' sort of theme. Keep a Knockin' was first recorded in the late 20's. I can't find out for sure who recorded it first or who first wrote it. There's some answer songs, like Open the Door Richard, recorded in the late 40's. In the late 50's Little Richard recorded the rock and roll version that the most people are probably familiar with. The Men at Work song Who Can it Be Now? takes the song idea in a new direction with the person behind the door commenting on their mental state.
So what do you all think? I'm hardly the most musically well versed person here so someone else must have noticed some trends.