Every song played in Kansas City is genuine. Nowhere else.
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How much of the lyrics in popular music are genuine?
- Thread starter tall_guy1
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Well, yeah, but everything's up to date in Kansas City. They gone about as fer as they can go.
They went an' built a skyscraper seven stories high. About as high as a buildin' orta grow.
Everything's like a dream in Kansas City. It's better than a magic lantern show.
You can turn the radiator on whenever you want some heat. With every kind of comfort every house is all complete.
You could walk the privees in the rain and never wet your feet! They've gone about as fer as they can go.
Aside from artistic license being taken, there have been tons of songs written that were maybe based in fact, but certain events or names or cities/locations were changed as it was more important for the writer to come up with a hook or lyrics that rhymed, rather than keeping the story their song was telling accurate to the actual events that occurred. Going waaayyy back, if I'm not mistaken, Billy Joel once explained that, while his song "Piano Man" was based on real people/experiences he had when starting out singing in piano bars, some of their names and other details were changed to make the lyrics work out better.
Fun fact: While Joel is stuck singing that song during every concert and performance and it's long been a standard for pianists and guitarists in pubs around the world, Joel personally isn't a fan of that song musically.
Fun fact: While Joel is stuck singing that song during every concert and performance and it's long been a standard for pianists and guitarists in pubs around the world, Joel personally isn't a fan of that song musically.
They got crazy little women there, too.
And I'm gonna get me one.
If that don't work, I've been assured women don't treat you mean in Abilene.
Or you can go down to the west Texas town of El Paso and fall in love with a Mexican girl!
That can get you killed.
Did the devil actually go down to Georgia?
We’ve been warned today about political posts, so I don’t feel I can answer that honestly.
What kind of devil loses a fiddle contest?
Apparently he was 11,780 votes short and couldn’t get the officials to “find” them for him.
Elton didn’t even write those songs. That credit goes to Bernie Taupin.
Well, Elton wrote the music and Bernie wrote the lyrics, and if I’d said “Bernie Taupin wasn’t burning out his fuse up there alone”, somebody would have said “who?” and it would have been a whole thing, not unlike this.
And if you want to argue who wrote the songs, Barry Manilow did not. Bruce Johnston wrote that one. Wait, he was a Beach Boy.
And when Sammy Davis Jr. sang "I've Gotta Be Me," the "me" who wrote those words was Walter Marks.
Both Ben E. King and Tom Jones had hits with "I (Who Have Nothing)", but it was written by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller, and all four of them had something.
And what's incredible about this is that we're probably only just beginning with this nonsense, and none of it will dissuade TallGuy from asking another equally improbable question here.
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