♪ I love rock n roll! Stick another dime in the jukebox baby!♪
♪Here’s a quarter, call someone who cares!♪
Your turn…(Doesn’t have to be about money. Just song lyrics that are no longer relevant.)
Jim Croce’s “Operator”
Operator/ Well let’s forget about this call…You’ve been so much more than kind/You can keep the dime
The Turtles’ “Happy Together”
If I could call you up/Invest a dime…
I did see them perform that live a couple of times and he sang “three dimes” instead.
[A little man walked up and down,
He found an eating place in town,
He read the menu through and through,
To see what fifteen cents could do.
One meatball, one meatball,
He could afford but one meatball.](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mE_xaE6sUK8)
But ya gets no bread with one meatball!
[Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let…fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain’t got no cigarettes
Ah, but…two hours of pushin’ broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I’m a man of means by no means
King of the road.](Roger Miller - King of the Road - With Lyrics! - YouTube)
Trailers for sale or rent,
Rooms to let . . . fifty cents.
The reason this is dated is that we don’t pronounce “fifty cents” the same way anymore.
I got a little job I make fifty a week.
It pays for the rent and what food I eat.
Old Car Made in '52 The Rip Chords
Prince’s 1999
Put another nickel in,
In the nickelodeon.
Lonely days are gone, I’m a-goin’ home
'Cause my baby just wrote me a letter
Either The Box Topsor Joe Cocker
Hows this for irony?
♪ Video killed the radio star
Video killed the radio star
Pictures came and broke your heart,
We can’t rewind we’ve gone too far
Pictures came and broke your heart
Put all the blame on VCR♪
I’m in the phone booth, it’s the one across the hall
If you don’t answer, I’ll just ring it off the wall
I know he’s there, but I just had to call
Don’t leave me hanging on the telephone
Blondie-“Hanging on the Telephone”
The quote below is from a Wikipedia article.
The Statler Brothers’ 1981 song “Don’t Wait On Me” referred to a then-implausible situation: “When the lights go on at Wrigley Field”. However, after lights were installed, the line was changed to “When they put a dome on Wrigley Field” for their 1989 Live-Sold Out album.[49]
Donate some coffee
To Colonel Khaddafi
She’s so 20th century
She’s so 1970’s
She knows the right things to say
She’s got the right clothes to wear
'Cos she’s a modern girl, oh yeah
A modern girl, yeah, ga-ga-ga-ga-ga
A modern girl now, oh yeah
Boomtown Rats - She’s So Modern
Let me tell you how it will be
There’s one for you, nineteen for me
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah, I’m the taxman
Should five per cent appear too small
Be thankful I don’t take it all
Cos I’m the taxman, yeah I’m the taxman
…
Don’t ask me what I want it for (Aahh Mr. Wilson)
If you don’t want to pay some more (Aahh Mr. Heath)
The Beatles - Taxman
Half a mile from the county fair
And the rain keep pourin’ down
Me and Billy standin’ there
With a silver half a crown
Van Morrison – And It Stoned Me
Inna-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby
In Europe and America
There’s a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets
Mister Krushchev said, “We will bury you.”
I don’t subscribe to this point of view
It’d be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children too.
– Sting “Russians”, 1985.
…come to think, it’s not as dated as it used to be.
Memphis Tennessee:
Long distance information give me Memphis, Tennessee
Help me find the party trying to get in touch with me
She could not leave her number but I know who placed the call
The whole song is about a guy who got a call and so he called the operator to have her trace the call.
Mother’s Little Helper: I’m not sure if it’s more relevant or less, it’s about people feigning illness to get pills from their doctors:
Kids are different today, I hear ev’ry mother say
Mother needs something today to calm her down
And though she’s not really ill, there’s a little yellow pill
She goes running for the shelter of a mother’s little helper
Oh, flew in from Miami Beach B.O.A.C.
Didn’t get to bed last night
On the way the paper bag was on my knee
Man I had a dreadful flight
I’m back in the U.S.S.R.
You don’t know how lucky you are boy
Back in the U.S.S.R. (Yeah)