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...Actually , IIRC , I first heard " Madison Time " in its use in the soundtrack album to the original , non- musical , version of Hairspray , the first film , which I believe Waters did write - After which he let be taken and rewritten into a musical , leading to the later film versions of the musical .
I don't think Waters directly re-wrote it to make the Broadway version , though he approved of it .









--and it seems the poster hasn't been here, for quite awhile----but I wanted to make a comment about it, anyway.....

Baltimore is credited with the invention of the dance, that goes-along with this song----and, I've always loved it, because of that!! (We didn't actually invent it, though----they did it in Ohio, first [Columbus, maybe?]----it's just that it was seen on a local [Baltimore] dance show, and then picked-up on national dance shows. The dance is showed in the movie "Hairspray", which originated as a Broadway musical, written by Baltimore native, John Waters.)

I just wanted to add that bit of trivia.....

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As for obscure oldies.....

"Hound Dog" by Big Mama Thornton (yes, the same one, that Elvis sang).[/b][/color][/quote]

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" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
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Tuxedomoon - No Tears

Desmond has a barrow in the market place
Molly is the singer in a band
Desmond says to Molly "girl I like your face"
And Molly says this as she takes him by the hand

Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how the life goes on
Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how the life goes on

Desmond takes a trolley to the jewellers stores
Buys a twenty carat golden ring (Golden ring?)
Takes it back to Molly waiting at the door
And as he gives it to her she begins to sing (Sing)

Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how the life goes on
Ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how the life goes on, yeah (No)

In a couple of years they have built
A home sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones
(Ah ha ha ha ha ha)

Happy ever after in the market place
Desmond let's the children lend a hand (Arm! Leg!)
Molly stays at home and does her pretty face
And in the evening she's a singer with the band

Yes, ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how the life goes on (Ha ha ha)
Hey, ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how the life goes on

In a couple of years they have built
A home sweet home
With a couple of kids running in the yard
Of Desmond and Molly Jones
(Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha)

Yeah, happy ever after in the market place
Molly let's the children lend a hand (Foot!)
Desmond stays at home and does his pretty face
And in the evening she's a singer with the band

Yeah, ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how the life goes on
Yeah, ob-la-di ob-la-da life goes on bra
La-la how the life goes on

And if you want some fun
Take ob-la-di ob-la-da

(Thank you, uh, ha ha ha!)


I bolded the part that makes it rather obscure for the time period...this I don't think transgenderism or transvestiteness was spoken about so openly.

And of course The Walrus by The Beatles, because towards the end they chant 'smoke pot, smoke pot, everybody smoke pot, everybody smoke pot'

and this satanic classic.

Men Without Hats - Sideways from 1991

Just as catchy as "Safety Dance" but a totally different style

this one is a REAL oldie-

...Great tune...But would it be conskdered too non-PC/extolling sexual harassment nowadays ?
And is it too much concerned with " Dead Europeans " by today's standards?
Is he singing " a little bald at the knee "?
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auntblabby"]this one is a REAL oldie-
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Renal kidney failure, congestive heart failure, COPD. Can't really get up from a floor position unhelped anymore:-(.
One of the walking wounded ~ SMASHED DOWN by life and age, now prevented from even expressing myself! SOB.
" Oh, no! First you have to PROVE you deserve to go away to college! " ~ My mother, 1978 (the heyday of Andy Gibb and Player). I would still like to go.
My life destroyed by Thorazine and Mellaril - and rape - and the Psychiatric/Industrial Complex. SOB:-(! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !!

i googled and could not find the definition of "a little bald at the knee" - please tell me what it means.