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I haven't heard Elvis Costello's new album, but I've read a review of it. Apparently, there's a song called "45" -- with verses about the year 1945, about being 45, and about 45 rpm records.
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I haven't been spending a lot of time in this thread, but the local branch of Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting has asked me to point out a, no doubt unintentional, lapse in completeness in an earlier report (not a comment). > [post by SilkMuse]
>> ASp: Aren't we supposed to be doing this chronologically? (I was waiting till "17")
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I do not comment; I merely report.
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>[post by sparteye, jumping to 16]
No objection by ASp.
I do not comment; I merely report.
The (no doubt unintentional) lapse is that between [post by sparteye, jumping to 16] and the report (not a comment) the aforementioned ASp had posted: Is there really nothing for the ages between 4 and 17??? I keep coming up blank... and now y'all have posted the 17-related songs I was waiting to explode upon the scene with. 
[white](going to the back of the class now)[/white]
I do not comment, I merely report. I do commend the ARs for advancing from newbie to journeyman in the prosecution of his efforts to demonstrate his greater knowledge of popular music when for all we know he could be a Pooh-Bah if he were to take proper credit for his postings. I do hope he will pay more attention to the little details in his reporting and I would hope that no one ever find him to have committed similar lapses to the one he wrongly attributes to the ASp.
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faldage, there is some merit to what you say about the second part of my post.
Please consider that part deleted, and the post confined to its first part only.
Aside to of-troy: did you notice that "It Ain't Necessarily So" is in limerick form, dear to your heart?
Edit to faldage: very nicely said, sir. Thank you for pointing that out; I deserved it.
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This song, though it gives no specific year, is clearly referring to a pre-adolescent:
When I was a lad of three-foot-three / Certain questions occurred to me,
So I asked me father quite seriously / To tell me the story 'bout the bird and bee.
He stammered and he stuttered pathetically / And this is what he said to me.
He said, "The woman piaba and the man piaba
and the Ton Ton call baka lemon grass,
The lily root, gully root, belly root uhmm,
And the famous grandy scratch scratch."
[and one more line, starting the next verse: It was clear as mud but it covered the ground]
-- Man Piaba by Harry Belafonte
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Although age-16 has been well-covered, I find this one too sweet to omit:
Tonight's the night I've waited for
Because you're not a baby anymore
You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen
Happy birthday sweet sixteen
What happened to that funny face
My little tomboy now wears satins and lace
I can't believe my eyes you're just a teenage dream
Happy birthday sweet sixteen
When you were only six / I was your big brother
Then when you were ten / We didn't like each other
When you were thirteen / You were a funny Valentine
But since you've grown up
Your future is sewn up
From now on you're gonna be mine so
If I should smile with sweet surprise
It's just that you've grown up before my very eyes
You've turned into the prettiest girl I've ever seen
Happy birthday sweet sixteen
-- Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen (Neil Sedaka / Howard Greenfield)
[My daughters are older [sad -e], but still "the prettiest girls I've ever seen".]
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Let me contribute another eager fourteen-year-old:
Lolly Too Tum Day
As I went out one morning to fetch the pleasant air
Lolly too tum, too tum, lolly too tum day.
As I went out one morning to fetch the pleasant air,
I overheard a mother a-scoldin' her daughter fair
Lolly too tum, too tum, lolly too tum day. hereinafter to be known as "Lolly-etc"
"You better go wash them dishes, and hush that flattering tongue,"
Lolly-etc
"You better go wash them dishes, and hush that flattering tongue,
For you know that you wanna get married, and that you are too young."
Lolly-etc
"Oh pity my condition, just like it was yer own,"
Lolly-etc
"Oh pity my condition, just like it was yer own,
For fourteen long years I've been living all alone."
Lolly-etc
"Supposin' I were willin', where would you get yer man?"
Lolly-etc
"Supposin' I were willin', where would you get yer man?"
"Lawsy, massy, Mammy, I'd marry that handsome Sam."
Lolly-etc
"Supposin' he should spite you, like you done him before?"
Lolly-etc
"Supposin' he should spite you, like you done him before?"
"Lawsy, massy, Mammy, I could marry me fourteen more!"
Lolly-etc
"There's peddlers and there's tinkers, and boys from the plow,"
Lolly-etc
"There's peddlers and there's tinkers, and boys from the plow!
"Lawsy, massy, Mammy, I'm a-gettin' that feelin' now!
Lolly-etc
As I went out one morning to fetch the pleasant air
Lolly too tum, too tum, lolly too tum day.
As I went out one morning to fetch the pleasant air,
I overheard a mother a-scoldin' her daughter fair,
Lolly too, tum, too, tum,
Lolly Too Tum Day.
sung by Burl Ives (from the record "The Wayfaring Stranger" ? )
"Lawsy, massy" approximately translates "Lord have mercy," I suspect
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"She was only sixteen, only sixteen
With eyes that would glow
But she was too young to fall in love
and I was too young to know.
So why did I give my heart so fast
It never will happen again
But I was a mere child of sixteen
I've aged a year since then"
Dr. John - "Only Sixteen"
"Dr. John"? I was going to post this one by "Dr. Hook and the Medical Show"...circa 1975! When I was 16!
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 I stand corrected That's OK girlfriend...lots of mistakes get made here every week. I just more or less wanted to point out that the song about being 16 came out when I was 16, and I guess I really lived the feelings in the whole song back then.  Couldn't pay me enough to go back to 16..uh uh....no way, Jose!
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