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Michael Stipe's Elvis impersonation on "Hey baby" after the "Andy, are you goofing on Elvis?" line in R.E.M.'s "Man On The Moon."
I glanced at a reference to "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" upthread a couple of days ago and assumed it was about the quote in "Sidewinder". But someone was claiming that the horns in "How Bizarre" quote "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (idk)
'vine street' as performed & arranged by van dyke parks on song cycle features a very obvious string quote of beethoven's 9th
Which then dissolves into a lick from "The Entertainer"! There are probably fifteen little jokes on that album
there are probably fifteen little jokes in that one song, the album is just relentless
― flappy bird, Saturday, January 13, 2018 8:10 PM (four years ago) bookmarkflaglink
I been working on Concord Sonata this week and anyone who likes this kind of shit would be wise to go deep—-there are PhDs and published books written about tracking all Ives’s nods and quotes in it— Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Wagner, spirituals— he even wrote original “folk” music (and a fake Sousa March) as source material for his collageing— it’s great
― the five French fry feeling (flamboyant goon tie included), Thursday, August 25, 2022 11:11 AM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink
https://medium.com/@bizmarkiemoon/charles-ives-in-groucho-marxs-pajamas-5ffcd3f5597f
xps Jellyfish have a "When You Wish Upon a Star" reference too, in "Joining a Fan Club" — the strings come in with a bit of the melody after a lyrical reference to Pinocchio
― Vaguely Threatening CAPTCHAs, Sunday, 28 August 2022 03:54 (one year ago) link
three months pass...
At the end of "Fruits and Vegetables" by Chunky, Novi and Ernie, they interpolate melodies from at least three sources:
Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf
The Merrie Melodies theme
The Toreador theme from Bizet’s Carmen
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 9 December 2022 22:54 (one year ago) link
'The Purple People Eater' by Sheb Wooley (1958) has brief quotations of 'Short Shorts' by The Royal Teens and 'Tequila' by the Champs, both of the same year, as well as Little Richard's 'Tutti Frutti', then a fairly recent hit.