Standards , Folk Songs etc

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When does a song devolp such a reputiton it becomes part of a cannon or repitore ?

― anthony, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

When people no longer understand it or remember it exactly, but they can still stumble through it, given the chance?

― Nude Spock, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Folk songs start off as news/political bulletins and become standards when the events described in the song are far enough away from most people's memories that they're no longer controversial.

― dave q, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Anyone remember Naked Gun where Leslie (dumb cop guy) is pretending he's Pavaroti and sings the National Anthem for the beginning of a baseball game? ... Lots of bombs in the air
Gave proof through the night that we still had our flag
Oh say does our spangled banner wave
O'er the land of the home-- and the home of the free.

That always cracks me up. That and the pee scene where he's peein' forever with the microphone still attatched to him.

― Nude Spock, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

This is such a good question. I have no idea what the answers are. (like, when did "ma&241;ana" become recital material at my elementary school? that's just weird. especially alongside "red red robin".)

― Tracer Hand, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Another interpretation of Dave Q's post is that folk songs begin as works of left-wing radicalism and are misappropriated by the traditionalist right when everyone has forgotten what they are about.

― Robin Carmody, Monday, 15 October 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

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