[Dixielandjazz] Song title puns

david richoux tubaman at batnet.com
Fri Apr 9 17:16:57 PDT 2004


Not a pun, but a punctuation funny:

    What Is That Thing Called, Love?

by the way - found a huge web list of song titles with recording 
artist, record, date info at: http://rcs.law.emory.edu/rcs/titles 
(mostly Rock, Pop and Country - some jazz)
Dave Richoux


On Apr 9, 2004, at 11:37 AM, Charles Suhor wrote:

> Hey, fellow DJML listers--
>
> The band leaders often used puns when calling up tunes (off-mike) to 
> the
> sidemen during spot gigs from the 40s-60s. I'm guessing this happened 
> all
> over the country, so you'll probably recognize most of these and can 
> add a
> few of your own. The first twenty are pretty transparent so almost 
> anyone




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