Monday, February 25, 2008

Dizzies Music Supplement — February edition

Dizzyhead musical challenge from Levi:

Listening just now to the Magnetic Fields's "I Think I Need a New Heart," I realized that it's one of that small class of songs that includes a reference to a (possibly different?) song by that same name that's playing during the song:

As you put down your keys
and say, "Don't call me, please,"
While the radio plays "I Think I Need a New Heart."

The others I know of are "Bonaparte's Retreat"

So I held her in my arms
And told her of her many charms;
Kissed her while the guitars played
"Bonaparte's Retreat."
and "Tennessee Waltz"
I was waltzing with my darling
To "The Tennessee Waltz"
When an old friend I happened to see.
I introduced him to my darling
And while they were dancing
My friend stole my sweetheart from me.
—both written by Pee Wee King and Redd Stewart. Are there others that you know of?

(Write to: thedizzies@gmail.com or leave a comment. The one that springs to my mind is "Write a song about your dream of horses/Call it 'Judy and the Dream of Horses," from B&S's "Judy and the Dream of Horses")

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