#56 Musings Beyond the Bunker (Saturday June 12)
Happy Saturday!
MUSIC
Last week I asked for people to guess the top songs that used a stutter as a musical devise in the lyric. Here is the “definitive list” of “stutter songs.” As I write this, I’m sure someone will come up with another…:
“Sussudio,” by Phil Collins
“You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet,” by Bachman Turner Overdrive (“B-b-b-baby, you ain’t seen n-n-n-nothing yet…”)
“Changes,” by David Bowie (“Ch-ch-ch-changes, trace the change…”)
“My Generation,” by the Who
“My Sharona,” by the Knack
“Bad to the Bone,” by George Thorogood (“B-b-b-bad to the bone…”)
“Barbara Ann,” by the Beach Boys
“Jive Talkin’,” by the Bee Gees
“Bennie and the Jets,” by Elton John
“Psycho Killer,” by the Talking Heads (my cousin Chris came up with this one…)
Some claim “The Logical Song,” by Supertramp. It has the phrases “D-d-digital” and “ch-ch-check…” Technically correct but the song is hardly known for the stutter.
And the best of all comes from Parke Skelton, the World War I song, “Katy”:
“K K K Katy
Beautiful Katy
You're the only G G G girl that I adore
When the M M M moonshines
Over the cowpen
I'll be waiting at the K K K kitchen door…”
POETRY
There Shall Come Soft Rain, by Sara Teasdale
There will come soft rain and the smell of the ground,
And swallows circling with their shimmering sound;
And frogs in the pools singing at night,
And wild plum trees in tremulous white;
Robins will wear their feathery fire,
Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire;
And not one will know of the war, not one
Will care at last when it is done.
Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree,
If mankind perished utterly;
And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn
Would scarcely know that we were gone.
Happy weekend,
Glenn