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What if you wrote these songs today?

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It occurred to me that there are certain songs, or types of songs, that you would have to rewrite because of the changes in technology since they were written and sung the first time (most dealing with telephones and mail, but I'm sure there are others). No kore songs about waiting by the phone since everyone carries a phone with them!.

Couple that come to mind:

BEECHWOOD 4-5789, obviously at the very least would be 234-5789, since those prefixes went out of style with the early 60s.

Please Mr. Postman? The postman only has your utility bill. Check your inbox.

Jim Croce wouldn't need the Operator anymore.

My baby wrote me an email?

ELO's "Telephone Line". If she won't pick up her cellphone, you've REALLY been dumped!

"Tossin' and Turnin"...the milkman hasn't been at the door for decades.

"I'm Gonna Get Married". Nah, just going to live with her.

Others?
 
"Top 40 News Weather & Sports" (no one service brings that to you anymore)
"Birds And the Bees" (oh really?)
"Return to Sender" (now they just bounce)
 
Sixteen tons .....not with weight watchers
Ballad of Davy Crockett........... Davy, Davy caught It, and he gave it to whole frontier.
Help......911
Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow polkadot............thong
Whatever Lola Wants, Lola Gets .......at Walmart
San Francisco Knights
House of the Rising Sun ......who owns half of the US?
Magic.......name an ex-laker
Bimbo (Jim Reeves)....Paris Hilton
Pledging my love.......Liz Taylor (8)
You Beat Me To The Punch..........Farah Faucett to MJ
Tell It Like It Is........I Did Not have Sex With that woman
Cowboys to Girls........Renee Richards
Beauty is only skin deep.........again Paris Hilton
Land of a 1,000 dances.........dancing with the stars
Grazing in the Grass......again Paris Hilton
Choice of Colors.......again MJ
Hello Stranger......wife if NC Governor

next
 
AARP top hits........

Herman Hermits - Mrs Brown you've got a lovely walker
BeeGees - How do mend a broken hip.
Bobby Darin - Splish Splash I was Having a Flash
Beatles - I'll get by with a little help from my depends
Roberta Flack - First time I ever forgot your face
Johnny Nash - I Can't see clearly now
Paul Simon - 50 way to lose your liver
Commodores - once, twice, three times the bathroom.
Marvin Gaye - heard It thru the grapenuts
Leo Sayer - You made me feel like napping
Temptations - Papa's got a kidney stone
Dawn - knock three times om the ceiling if you hear me
Lesly Gore - Its my procedure and I'll cry If I want to.
Willle Nelson - On the commode again
 
hornet61 said:
AARP top hits........

Herman Hermits - Mrs Brown you've got a lovely walker
BeeGees - How do mend a broken hip.
Bobby Darin - Splish Splash I was Having a Flash
Beatles - I'll get by with a little help from my depends
Roberta Flack - First time I ever forgot your face
Johnny Nash - I Can't see clearly now
Paul Simon - 50 way to lose your liver
Commodores - once, twice, three times the bathroom.
Marvin Gaye - heard It thru the grapenuts
Leo Sayer - You made me feel like napping
Temptations - Papa's got a kidney stone
Dawn - knock three times om the ceiling if you hear me
Lesly Gore - Its my procedure and I'll cry If I want to.
Willle Nelson - On the commode again
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You're really rollin'
 
radioman148 said:
hornet61 said:
AARP top hits........

Herman Hermits - Mrs Brown you've got a lovely walker
BeeGees - How do mend a broken hip.
Bobby Darin - Splish Splash I was Having a Flash
Beatles - I'll get by with a little help from my depends
Roberta Flack - First time I ever forgot your face
Johnny Nash - I Can't see clearly now
Paul Simon - 50 way to lose your liver
Commodores - once, twice, three times the bathroom.
Marvin Gaye - heard It thru the grapenuts
Leo Sayer - You made me feel like napping
Temptations - Papa's got a kidney stone
Dawn - knock three times om the ceiling if you hear me
Lesly Gore - Its my procedure and I'll cry If I want to.
Willle Nelson - On the commode again
Click to expand...

You're really rollin'
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I can't take credit for these, they have been around for a while, but this was a perfect place to use them. did you get my e-mail with stairway to heaven ???
 
hornet61 said:
radioman148 said:
hornet61 said:
AARP top hits........

Herman Hermits - Mrs Brown you've got a lovely walker
BeeGees - How do mend a broken hip.
Bobby Darin - Splish Splash I was Having a Flash
Beatles - I'll get by with a little help from my depends
Roberta Flack - First time I ever forgot your face
Johnny Nash - I Can't see clearly now
Paul Simon - 50 way to lose your liver
Commodores - once, twice, three times the bathroom.
Marvin Gaye - heard It thru the grapenuts
Leo Sayer - You made me feel like napping
Temptations - Papa's got a kidney stone
Dawn - knock three times om the ceiling if you hear me
Lesly Gore - Its my procedure and I'll cry If I want to.
Willle Nelson - On the commode again
Click to expand...

You're really rollin'
Click to expand...

I can't take credit for these, they have been around for a while, but this was a perfect place to use them. did you get my e-mail with stairway to heaven ???
Click to expand...

Yes I did--Thank you! ;D
 
Here's one I haven't saw yet. Claire, I think the song came out back in 1972 done by Gilbert O Sullivan.
A song about him baby sitting his niece. If you were to come out with a song like that in this day and time, you would be labeled a pedophile. The song was huge back in it's day.

If you've never heard it, there is a video is on you tube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27FP0GTlkWA

Radio30.
 
Nitty Gritty Dirt Band - "Make a Little Magic." Is that what Mr. Johnson said to Mrs. Johnson the night their son Earvin was conceived?
 
Witch Doctor ........MJ's personal Physian
Bird Dog .....Air-Dale
Running Bear ....at the nuddist colony
Battle of New Orleans.....FEMA
Blue Moon.......a paddled behind
Hello Dolly......addressing the Dali Lama
Wedding Bell Blues.........again Liz Taylor
 
Mac the Knife would be Mac the AK-47
"Hair" would be "Rogain"
The little old lady from Pasadena would be deceased and her granddaughter would be driving a Prius. You can't get parts for the Super Stock Dodge and it costs $40.00 to fill.
'Back in the USSR' would be back in "Russia for the moment"
Lady Madonna----------no change. She is still around.
 
"Get Back" would be about the LA sportswriter who went from man to woman and back to man. Or it could be about Manny Ramirez in any city.
 
'midnight in moscow" would now be about rich capitalists driving Mercedes to a "really swingin disco"
 
MsMusicRadio said:
"Get Back" would be about the LA sportswriter who went from man to woman and back to man. Or it could be about Manny Ramirez in any city.
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"Get Back" could also be about Bernie Madoff when he shoved that photographer on that video we've been shown ad nauseum from last fall.
 
"Blue Suede Shoes" would be "Blue Trim New Balance 1225's with an orthopedic insert"
 
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