# Songs about outdated tech or fads **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [March 3, 2024, 8:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388 "2024-03-03T08:01:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/61 "2024-03-04T05:20:00Z")
I saw a documentary that showed that this song was still being performed in 2001. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/E7WQ1tdxSqI/hqdefault.jpg "Hal 9000 sings Daisy") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7WQ1tdxSqI) ---
**Author:** ![PastTense](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pasttense/32/14550_2.png) [@PastTense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PastTense)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/62 "2024-03-04T06:19:35Z")
> [@PastTense](#): > > The song dates from 1982 Typo: I meant 1892 [Daisy/ On a Bicycle Built for Two]. There was a big bicycle craze in this era. A couple bicycle mechanics/manufacturers people might remember are the Wright Brothers. > **[How the 19th-century bicycle craze empowered women and changed fashion](https://www.si.edu/stories/19th-century-bicycle-craze)** > > Millions of Americans rode bicycles at the end of the 1800s. Learn how the craze empowered women and changed fashion. ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/63 "2024-03-04T07:10:40Z")
There are a bunch of these from the 78 RPM era: Crazy Words - Crazy Tune: [https://youtu.be/p0pL3KGqb3g?si=jf2-UskFiiELpvZ4](https://youtu.be/p0pL3KGqb3g?si=jf2-UskFiiELpvZ4) I’m Wild About Horns on Automobiles That Go ‘Ta-Ta-Ta-Ta’: [https://youtu.be/kEjPnGDL0eg?si=quK0ige1ydZ1wb2Z](https://youtu.be/kEjPnGDL0eg?si=quK0ige1ydZ1wb2Z) On the Party Line: [https://youtu.be/L3vu85OWvWk?si=EUEoIO5oZYJ3ShHT](https://youtu.be/L3vu85OWvWk?si=EUEoIO5oZYJ3ShHT) Get 'Em in a Rumble Seat: [https://youtu.be/dcqV3ZAu31w?si=9s0rgANGLXZl3vqV](https://youtu.be/dcqV3ZAu31w?si=9s0rgANGLXZl3vqV) ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/64 "2024-03-04T13:31:32Z")
Soul Coughing’s [Janine](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsQGs3eghg4) features band founder Mike Doughty’s girlfriend, Rachel Benbow Murdy singing in a payphone in Sheridan Square in New York into their answering machine. It also has the lyric: I fell asleep by the blue light of Live at Five And as I drifted off, I heard Al Roker say to me: Dial one nine hundred Four Jay Ay En Eye En Ee. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2024, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388/65 "2024-03-04T13:50:48Z")
“Weird Al” Yankovic - “Mr. Frump in the Iron Lung” [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/4AKRqDtzOlQ/hqdefault.jpg ""Weird Al" Yankovic - Mr. Frump In The Iron Lung") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AKRqDtzOlQ) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-outdated-tech-or-fads/998388.md?page=3)