Comments on: Today’s music trivia question

By: Katz

Katz — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:54:50 +0000

Whenever His Ex-Excellency appears in the daylight, the sun is ipso facto eclipsed.

By: Anita

Anita — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:03:19 +0000

There was a old novelty song called ‘I Was Kaiser Bill’s Batman’, so I reckon ‘I Was Richard Butler’s Butler’ has something going for it. The Batman song was whistled, which is one way to get around the lyrics problem.

Would Richard Butler go to Nove Scotia to see the total eclipse of the sun? Probably, he likes his holidays and is pretty cashed up. While in Canada, he could also check out the Banff Springs Hotel and maybe an ice hotel etc etc and inspire a few more iconic Canadian songs.

By: Anita

Anita — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 03:48:07 +0000

how charming of you morgan the pirate to compare me with the fabulous judi dench

wouldn’t it be a cracker to hear jude read e e cummings

or sing there is nothin like a dame

By: Katz

Katz — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 02:03:13 +0000

Or more succinctly:

http://tinyurl.com/25kbod

By: Katz

Katz — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:56:22 +0000

Go here FDB.

http://tinyurl.com/

It has changed my life, as it will yours.

And (ahem) as I was saying:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/25kbod

By: FDB

FDB — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 23:28:18 +0000

Well, that’s all very well Mr/Ms For, but how does one get/use this marvellous innovation?

By: That's What Tinyurl is for

That's What Tinyurl is for — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 22:36:32 +0000

You’re So Vain:

http://tinyurl.com/34nrqh

By: FDB

FDB — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:14:30 +0000

Nope, you were right!

WP cuts off the url at the apostrophe, then freakin turns it around so you can’t even take the remaining black text and paste it on the end in your address bar.

Odd.

By: FDB

FDB — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:10:29 +0000

It’s a backwards one, Katz. Fixed?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You‘re_So_Vain

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:08:48 +0000

What’s a hate apostrophe?

By: Katz

Katz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:04:14 +0000

Er, looks like links hate apostrophes.

Strange.

Sorry.

By: Katz

Katz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 01:00:38 +0000

Way to ruin a joke!

Does this work?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You‘re_So_Vain

By: Katz

Katz — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 00:57:17 +0000

So, has anyone written a song about Richard Butler…

Yep…

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You‘re_So_Vain

By: Paul Norton

Paul Norton — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:51:35 +0000

genevieve, the song was originally written by the late Don Henderson and was always performed by him at left functions I attended (and sometimes helped organise) in Brisbane in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The exact lyric is:

And it’s on,
All reason and logic is gone,
Winning the fight
Won’t prove that you’re right,
It’s sad, it’s true, and it’s on

By: Ambigulous

Ambigulous — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:41:11 +0000

Anita, the obvious title would be “The Butler Did It!” and rhymes for Saddam, Destruction, Bore, Bush, etc can’t be too difficult. Like to give it a try and report back? morgan is very rude: ignore him, anita!

By: morgan the pirate

morgan the pirate — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 13:03:34 +0000

Anita when you write you sound like Judi Dench

By: joe2

joe2 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:45:15 +0000

Nice work genevieve and thankyou, it is what i rememeber.

By: Anita

Anita — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:42:55 +0000

I would have got the governor right off but not the song, because I immediately thought of the English song, ‘Lord Franklin’ and the beautiful haunting version of it done by Pentangle with John Renbourn. There’s even a Sinead O’Connor version on youtube.

Franklin must have been really caught people’s imaginations to inspire all this. So, has anyone written a song about Richard Butler…

By: genevieve

genevieve — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:26:25 +0000

The Cobbers used to sing “And It’s On”. Doesn’t mean they wrote it though.

And it’s on,
All reason and logic are gone,
Winning the fight
Won’t settle who’s right,
It’s sad, it’s true, but it’s on.

Or something like that.

By: Pavlov's Cat

Pavlov's Cat — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 07:28:16 +0000

Beautiful.

And speaking of icons and close harmonies …