Amusing Fact: Longest Song Title
Baba O'Briley
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I received this amusing facts newsletter everyday and in a recent edition it had something about the longest song title. Here's what it said:
The Fact
The song with the longest title is "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in
a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my
Honolulu Mama Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o,
Hirohito Blues" written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1945. He
later claimed the song title ended with "Yank" and the rest
was a joke.
Longest Song Title
You gotta love those songs whose titles are too long to put
on the label of an old 45rpm record. Okay, you don't have to
love the song, but the titles are a howl.
The Guiness World Book of Records, acknowledged the world
champion song title holder, to be "I'm a Cranky Old Yank, in
a Clanky Old Tank, on the Streets of Yokahama with My
Honolulu Mama, Doing Those Beat-o, Beat-o, Flat on My Seat-
o, Hirohito Blues." According to lyricist Hoagy Carmichael,
the original title was only "I'm a Cranky Old Yank", but the
joke got out of hand after that.
The longest song title consisting of a single word,
recognized as valid in the English language, is
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", from the 1960s movie,
"Mary Poppins".
The word is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as an
unpublished song (1949) by Parker & Young, albeit with
different spelling. Then as a published song in 1951 by
Parker & Young.
But wait! OED also lists under our spelling, a song title by
R.M. and R.B. Sherman, in 1964. This of course, gave rise to
the great, one might even say "super..", well, just super
Supreme Court debate over copyright infringement in 1967.
Walt Disney studios won, "in view of earlier oral uses of
the word sworn to in affidavits", and also because they
wrote the entire movie lyrics and music, themselves.
The Fact
The song with the longest title is "I'm a Cranky Old Yank in
a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my
Honolulu Mama Doin’ Those Beat-o, Beat-o Flat-On-My-Seat-o,
Hirohito Blues" written by Hoagy Carmichael in 1945. He
later claimed the song title ended with "Yank" and the rest
was a joke.
Longest Song Title
You gotta love those songs whose titles are too long to put
on the label of an old 45rpm record. Okay, you don't have to
love the song, but the titles are a howl.
The Guiness World Book of Records, acknowledged the world
champion song title holder, to be "I'm a Cranky Old Yank, in
a Clanky Old Tank, on the Streets of Yokahama with My
Honolulu Mama, Doing Those Beat-o, Beat-o, Flat on My Seat-
o, Hirohito Blues." According to lyricist Hoagy Carmichael,
the original title was only "I'm a Cranky Old Yank", but the
joke got out of hand after that.
The longest song title consisting of a single word,
recognized as valid in the English language, is
"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious", from the 1960s movie,
"Mary Poppins".
The word is listed in the Oxford English Dictionary as an
unpublished song (1949) by Parker & Young, albeit with
different spelling. Then as a published song in 1951 by
Parker & Young.
But wait! OED also lists under our spelling, a song title by
R.M. and R.B. Sherman, in 1964. This of course, gave rise to
the great, one might even say "super..", well, just super
Supreme Court debate over copyright infringement in 1967.
Walt Disney studios won, "in view of earlier oral uses of
the word sworn to in affidavits", and also because they
wrote the entire movie lyrics and music, themselves.
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ha ha that cracked me up so much when i first heard it.