People talk about moon/June as an overused rhyme in songs. I don't actually know any examples, but I would guess that the late 40s and 50s could be called the moon/June era. I like the idea that other eras could be named similarly. There was a schemes/dreams era around the Great Depression. There was a self/else era beginning in the late 60s. Maybe between moon/June and self/else there was a love/of era.
Comments? Criticisms? Examples? Elaborations?
A Salt Hygrometer
19 hours ago
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Funny/Money/ in the 80s? (Money, money, money, Isn't funny, In a rich man's world.) That was written by Swedes: ABBA.
Formal analysis of great works of architecture is often done by describing adjacent structural bays using the symbols A, A', B, B', C etc, and seeing if the whole thing forms an interesting rhythm of some kind. So I'm looking for an opportunity to design a facade for some Swedes in the ratio ABBA.
I would guess that the late 40s and 50s could be called the moon/June era.
Wikipedia has this:
June Moon is a play by George S. Kaufman and Ring Lardner. Based on the Lardner short story "Some Like Them Cold," about a love affair that loses steam before it ever gets started...The original Broadway production opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 9, 1929
The latter title seems to be from a nursery rhyme called
Pease Porridge Hot.
Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old;
Some like it hot, some like it cold,
Some like it in the pot, nine days old.
The first use of Some Like It Hot was as the title of a 1939 comedy starring Bob Hope.
self/else? That doesn't rhyme. Maybe it was self/elf. Herself the Elf? No, that was an 80's toy. There was "Georgy Girl" but the rhyme was self/shelf, and that didn't even make it to number one.
Like it or not, I'm afraid the biggest poetic contribution of the 60's was the Fish Cheer.
No, there are well-known songs that rhyme self with else.
What is the Fish Cheer?
Oh, that fish cheer.
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