# Don McLean Question: Prove Me Wrong, Please!

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**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [July 30, 2001, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-mclean-question-prove-me-wrong-please/74267 "2001-07-30T20:18:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![DPWhite](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d26b3c/32.png) [@DPWhite](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPWhite)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2001, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-mclean-question-prove-me-wrong-please/74267/21 "2001-08-12T16:58:23Z")

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Orson Welles made a lot of other great films than Citizen Kane. Touch of Evil, Lady from Shanghai, and his own personal favorite, Chimes at Midnight.

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**Author:** ![Arnold\_Winkelried](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Arnold\_Winkelried](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Arnold_Winkelried)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2001, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-mclean-question-prove-me-wrong-please/74267/22 "2001-08-14T23:27:55Z")

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DPWhite - I must be missing the connection. Don McLean and Orson Welles? 😕

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**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-mclean-question-prove-me-wrong-please/74267/23 "2001-08-15T00:37:34Z")

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> OP \*Originally posted by Quasimodem \*  
> **Is _American Pie_ his _Citizen Kane_?**

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> \*Originally posted by Arnold Winkelried \*  
> \*\*DPWhite - I must be missing the connection. Don McLean and Orson Welles? 😕 \*\*

_American Pie_ is Don McLean’s best known song.  
_Citizen Kane_ is Orson Welles’ best known film.

Other good McLean songs, which are never played on the radio anymore, are _Dreidle_ (sp?), the original _Castles in the Air_ (I didn’t like the slow version), and _If We Try_. _Wonderful Baby_ was pretty good, too.

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**Author:** ![warmgun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ecccb3/32.png) [@warmgun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/warmgun)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2001, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/don-mclean-question-prove-me-wrong-please/74267/24 "2001-08-15T05:56:43Z")

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To me it’s like his ‘Mcarther Park’.  
I thought the joke was, from pldennison, that just listening to AP was “killing” him.  
Same league as ‘Garden Party’.  
Sorry, but…yeach!

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