# Songs that Mention Photography **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 12, 2005, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-photography/321228 "2005-09-12T12:18:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Queen\_Bruin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Queen\_Bruin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Bruin)\ **Post date:** [September 12, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-photography/321228/41 "2005-09-12T22:42:54Z")
Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You) **Flock of Seagulls** ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 12:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-photography/321228/42 "2005-09-13T00:24:57Z")
Autopilot Off “What I Want” \*I took a look at a photograph Where we didn’t even notice the lens \* ---
**Author:** ![quiltguy154](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/ad7895/32.png) [@quiltguy154](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/quiltguy154)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-photography/321228/43 "2005-09-13T00:51:45Z")
> [@Rayne Man](#): > > An little known one now , but a big hit in the 60’s was _Flash Bang Wallop_ by Tommy Steel. This was from the musical Half a Sixpence based on the H G Wells novel “Kipps” The song is about taking wedding-day photos in the days of flash powder. I have tried to find the actual lyrics , but they don’t seem to be available on the web. “Flash, bang, wallop, what a picture, What a picture, what a photograph.” These are the only lyrics I can remember. I seem to recall them doing this in a skit on the old Carol Burnett Show. IIRC, Roddy McDowell was in it. ---
**Author:** ![Plan\_B](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Plan\_B](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Plan_B)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-photography/321228/44 "2005-09-13T00:56:04Z")
**Fountain of Sorrow** , by Jackson Browne. Here’s the first eight lines: Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer I was taken by a photograph of you There were one or two I know that you would have liked a little more But they didn’t show your spirit quite as true You were turning ’round to see who was behind you And I took your childish laughter by surprise And at the moment that my camera happened to find you There was just a trace of sorrow in your eyes ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-photography/321228/45 "2005-09-13T02:16:44Z")
> [@quiltguy154](#): > > “Flash, bang, wallop, what a picture, > What a picture, what a photograph.” > > These are the only lyrics I can remember. [here’s](http://207.44.240.63/~lyricsp/alpha/songs/f/flashbangwallop.shtml) the full lyrics ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-photography/321228/46 "2005-09-13T07:11:47Z")
_You must have been Mr. Olympian Wiith all that amplitude. How come you always load your Pentax when I’m in the nude?_ Michael Franks – _Popsicle Toes_ Also from Mr. Franks, _The Camera Never Lies._ ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-photography/321228/47 "2005-09-13T13:50:58Z")
Depeche Mode - [Photographic](http://archives.depechemode.com/lyrics/photographic.html) > [@](#): > > I take pictures, Photographic pictures ---
**Author:** ![Spoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@Spoke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoke)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-photography/321228/48 "2005-09-13T14:17:56Z")
**"The Harsh Truth of the Camera’s Eye"** - **Morrisey** \*My so friendly lens zooms into “the inner you” and it tells the harsh truth and nothing but … This photographer he must have really had it in for you\* … ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2005, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-photography/321228/49 "2005-09-13T16:30:42Z")
> [@Neidhart](#): > > This is probably the only song, pop or otherwise, which contains the word _rotogravure._ [We Never Mention Aunt Clara](http://www.pathguy.com/aunt_clara.htm). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-mention-photography/321228.md?page=2)