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Chris -- 2025-05-10
Not exactly mondegreens:
Er – isn’t it “Symphony for the Devil”
Apparently, some of the early pressings of Sgt Pepper’s Only Hearts Club Band contained a note that only dogs could hear
download The Moody Blues – Knights In White Satin free mp3 song by clicking the download button below
Showing my age?
Last edited by JuanTwoThree (2010-10-26 03:03:06)
On the plain in Spain where it mainly rains.
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J23 wrote:
The Moody Blues – Knights In White Satin free mp3 song by clicking the download button below
My age too. This was a hit when I was a kid, and my hearing of the first line—“Knights in white satin, never reaching the end”—always put me in mind of knights on endless quests; that seemed to fit in with the rest of the song. Years later I worked in a record store and was a bit startled to learn that the song was about bed-sheets.
That song exerted a powerful influence on my generation. One college friend laughingly substituted “cold-hearted orb that rules the night” any time she mentioned the moon.
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Don’t forget that old classic “Gladly, the Cross-Eyed Bear”.
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