From 1967, please enjoy England's Sweetheart Petula Clark and her winsomely melodic ode to sensible self-preservation "Don't Sleep in the Subway."
I would just like to say for the record that this song, attractive as it is in a "Penny Lane" Goes Tin Pan Alley-ish sort of way, has always baffled me. "Don't sleep in the subway, darling, don't stand in the pouring rain"?
Seriously, lady, if the guy you're boinking is so stupid he needs to be reminded not to do that stuff, you probably need to set your sights higher, if you know what I mean.
In any case, a coveted PowerPop No-Prize will be awarded the first reader who gleans the clip's relevance to the theme of tomorrow's Weekend Listomania.
Campaign songs of the Very Silly Party?
ReplyDeleteHeh.
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I think it's a metaphor.
ReplyDeleteAnd please, no sad songs. I'm lachrymose-intolerant.
Heh again.
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A subway in England is not an underground train -- it's a pedestrian walkway, a tunnel that goes underneath a street. Just so you should know where not to sleep if you are both stupid and in Engand.
ReplyDeleteSongs going out to the soon to be fired MTA people? Nah really, songs about girls telling their guys to straighten up an fly right? OK we'll try again, songs by Tony Hatch?
ReplyDeleteNope.
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Songs about British vagrants? Uhh, woman in their mid 30's becoming worldwide singing sensations?
ReplyDelete(leaving aside the question about British subways) songs about (public or personal) transport?
ReplyDeleteClue:
ReplyDeleteIt has something to do with the singer's name.
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Songs about guys with big petulas?
ReplyDeleteSongs about animals.
I'll raise Sal's songs about animals to songs about pets?
ReplyDeleteSongs that are decidedly un-PC?
ReplyDeleteWord verification: "puralea", which I haven't been since at least 1991.
British artists with interesting names.
ReplyDeleteSongs by artists who should have changed their name, but didn't.
Artists whose names are combinations of their father's first two girlfriends?
Trey
Singers who are petulant?
ReplyDeletePeople who covered Beatles' songs?
ReplyDeleteIt's her first name.
ReplyDeleteHeh heh heh....
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