Not in the movie, but a pretty big hit for Georgie Fame, definitely not his 'normal' material.
On That Note: Don't Know Much About History
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The song itself is not about history, but it mentions an historical event...
Obviously, the Truckers have a lot of songs about historical stuff. I always thought the Wallace stuff was interesting in this song.
I'll add Cuyahoga which is about the the river in Ohio that was on fire back in the day.
QUOTE="MeanDean, post: 6114243, member: 7117"]Art history... it's still history, right?
So two Don McLean songs for this OTN.
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"What's Going On" by Marvin Gaye kind of blurs the line, where that song was written about current-events, but today it's a history lesson regarding police brutality and anti-war protests of the late-60s/early-70s.
I learned a lot about military history by listening to Sabaton's catalog and then reading about what they sang about.
Maybe best known, "40:1" is about the WW2 Battle of Wizna where less than 1,000 Polish soldiers defended against 40,000 Germans.
They are also one of the best live performances I've ever seen.
Maybe best known, "40:1" is about the WW2 Battle of Wizna where less than 1,000 Polish soldiers defended against 40,000 Germans.
They are also one of the best live performances I've ever seen.
This is the first song I thought of when I read the topic for the week.
I thought about it a lot when my family went up to Lake Superior for vacation last summer. There was a map in the house we rented that showed all of the famous ship wrecks in Lake Superior, including the Edmund Fitzgerald.
My goodness I forgot how much that song was overplayed when it came out. I got so sick of it, but of course, every time you hear it you have to try and remember EVERY FRICKIN WORD!
When this topic was discussed offline I wondered about the distinction between songs written about events from an historic perspective - like The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down - written 100 years after the civil war. Versus CSNY's Ohio which now seems historical and is, but at the time was more a current events topic.
No one else seemed to care and I don't either really, just something I thought might bring some discussion and/or perspective to certain songs.
No one else seemed to care and I don't either really, just something I thought might bring some discussion and/or perspective to certain songs.
By using the googlizer, I learned that every ISU fan's favorite song, Smoke on the Water was about a fire at the Montreux Casino in Switzerland.
I have been a fan of Flogging Molly for years. They were the best small venue concert I've seen to date. Their lyrics usually paint a great picture, even when set to music that doesn't fit the mood of the story.
Tobacco Island is a song about Englishman Oliver Cromwell invading Ireland and either executing the Irish or deporting them to work as slave labor in the Caribbean in the 1600's.
Tobacco Island is a song about Englishman Oliver Cromwell invading Ireland and either executing the Irish or deporting them to work as slave labor in the Caribbean in the 1600's.
I'll add another by Flogging Molly. This is more of a political statement about the downfall of Detroit at the hands of corporate greed.
Can't listen to that without thinking of the parady that Homer & Jethro did of it, The Battle of Kookamonga.
One of my uncles businesses was jukeboxes and we used to get lots of used and weird 45's after they got switched out. Lots of novelty songs back then, Purple People Eater, Seven Little Girls (sitting in the Back Seat), If You Want to be Happy, Beep Beep (Little Nash Rambler), etc. Maybe an idea for one of these threads by our music history mavens, comedy songs.
