“Sogar der Großpapa sagt zu der Großmama”
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“Der liebe alte Großpapa sagt zu der guten Großmama”
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“Sogar der liebe, gute, alte Großpapa sagt zu der lieben, guten, alten Großmama”
Joni Mitchell - Twisted.
Ha ! I came in to post a Dan Hicks one from “The Laughing song” …
At 1:58, “While rehearsing for his act he made the grandiose mistake of living with
his long lost uncles” !
… that’s too late, you mean 47 seconds !
I was going to say Lambert, Hendricks and Ross.
Two measures of each chorus of Shakira’s “Estoy Aqui” are sung in very fast triplets: “among photos and notebooks, things and memories…”
Used as a gag on “Documentary Now” as Richard Kind tries to sing a show tune that’s crammed with way too many lyrics.
(chuckle) Thanks for the memory jog!
“Nobody told me there’d be days like these” -JL
I shall commit seppuku at once.
I’ve Been Everywhere by Johnny Cash. Takes him about 30 seconds and then… weeeee! What fun!
Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serrrrrrrr-engeti
Toto, “Africa.” An example where the singing is rushed and protracted in different parts of the very same line.
Tom Petty knew how to handle it when the music ran out before the words:
"I was introduced and we both started groovin’
She said, “I dig you, baby, but I got to keep movin’
On. Keep movin’ on”
Or Wardell Grey. Annie Ross just added lyrics to the solo.
The Pogues version of “Poor Paddy Works on the Railway” speeds up to a breakneck pace in 2/3 of the verses.
Does any song with a jam-packed lyric that obligates rapid-fire delivery count? 'cause then you’ve got the obvious ones of “Life is a Rock (But the Radio Rolled Me),” “We Didn’t Start the Fire” and “It’s The End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).” Regarding the Billy Joel one, I read one critic who noted “A list is not a song.” but I still like the track.
These are two examples of what I call “monkey business songs”, songs modeled after the breakneck execution of Chuck Berry’s “Too Much Monkey Business”. Dylan’s “Subterranean Homesick Blues” I already posted is the first derivative, and of course itself inspired further songs like the two above. And here’s Elvis Costello again: his “Pump It Up” is another of those songs.
The Spongetones’ “My Girl Maryanne”.
My girl Maryanne
She tries to get in as many words as she possibly can
I love Maryanne
She understands
Great Big Sea’s “Mari-Mac” is an absolute tongue-twister:
Dio “Rainbow in the Dark” has the vocals float around the pocket quite a bit, rushing some, leading others…
I like that expression! Here’s Kevin Rowland doing exactly that.
The incomprehensible rapid-then-slow bit at 0:53 is surely one of the great moments in modern songwriting.
Keep quoting Cabaret, Berlin, Burroughs, J.G. Ballard, Duchamp, Beauvoir,
Kerouac, Kierkegaard, Michael Rennie, and I don’t believe you really like Frank Sinatra.
Take that, Bob Dylan!
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