Topic Playlist (Part 3)

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Songs That Make You Think Of Squares

  1. God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood
  2. That Lucky Old Sun - Lawrence Welk
  3. Your Mama Don’t Dance - Loggins and Messina
  4. Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard
  5. A Well-Respected Man - The Kinks
  6. Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis and the News
  7. Hey Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams

“There’s soda pop and the dancin’s free…”

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Songs That Make You Think Of Squares

  1. God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood
  2. That Lucky Old Sun - Lawrence Welk
  3. Your Mama Don’t Dance - Loggins and Messina
  4. Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard
  5. A Well-Respected Man - The Kinks
  6. Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis and the News
  7. Hey Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams
  8. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Tony Orlando and Dawn

Five words … Amazon Women on the Moon :grin:

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Songs That Make You Think Of Squares

  1. God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood
  2. That Lucky Old Sun - Lawrence Welk
  3. Your Mama Don’t Dance - Loggins and Messina
  4. Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard
  5. A Well-Respected Man - The Kinks
  6. Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis and the News
  7. Hey Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams
  8. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Tony Orlando and Dawn
  9. We Built this City - Starship
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Songs That Make You Think Of Squares

  1. God Bless the USA - Lee Greenwood
  2. That Lucky Old Sun - Lawrence Welk
  3. Your Mama Don’t Dance - Loggins and Messina
  4. Okie From Muskogee - Merle Haggard
  5. A Well-Respected Man - The Kinks
  6. Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis and the News
  7. Hey Good Lookin’ - Hank Williams
  8. Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree - Tony Orlando and Dawn
  9. We Built this City - Starship
  10. 9 to 5 morning train - Sheena Easton

Instrumental Riffs that may be more famous than the song they came from

  1. Saxophone Riff from Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
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Instrumental Riffs that may be more famous than the song they came from

  1. Saxophone Riff from Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
  2. Saxophone Riff from El Bimbo - Jean-Marc Dompierre and His Orchestra

Best known to Gen X audiences as the “Blue Oyster Bar theme” from the Police Academy film franchise. Dompierre’s 1982 version of “El Bimbo” was a cover of Claude Morgan’s 1974 original.

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Instrumental Riffs that may be more famous than the song they came from

  1. Saxophone Riff from Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
  2. Saxophone Riff from El Bimbo - Jean-Marc Dompierre and His Orchestra
  3. Opening Organ/Guitar Riff from Baba O’Riley (Teenage Wasteland) – The Who

Yes – that’s a Lowrey organ, not a synth.

-“BB”-

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Instrumental Riffs that may be more famous than the song they came from

  1. Saxophone Riff from Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
  2. Saxophone Riff from El Bimbo - Jean-Marc Dompierre and His Orchestra
  3. Opening Organ/Guitar Riff from Baba O’Riley (Teenage Wasteland) – The Who
  4. Opening Guitar Riff from Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood and the Destroyers

By now it’s a sort-of audio shorthand to indicate that trouble is afoot.

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Instrumental Riffs that may be more famous than the song they came from

  1. Saxophone Riff from Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty
  2. Saxophone Riff from El Bimbo - Jean-Marc Dompierre and His Orchestra
  3. Opening Organ/Guitar Riff from Baba O’Riley (Teenage Wasteland) – The Who
  4. Opening Guitar Riff from Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood and the Destroyers
  5. Opening Organ & Drum Riff from Bang the Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren

Frequently played as a touchdown/goal celebration song in sports, particularly by the Green Bay Packers.