And here all along for all these years, I thought Tom Petty was saying "Shelly" went he really was singing "shove it." That's brill! I'm relieved too, because I strongly believe that songwriters should avoid personal names in otherwise universal paeans to love and regret. An example having such a reference is in Badfinger's "Baby Blue:
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Wednesday, June 6, 2018
KLEM FM
And here all along for all these years, I thought Tom Petty was saying "Shelly" went he really was singing "shove it." That's brill! I'm relieved too, because I strongly believe that songwriters should avoid personal names in otherwise universal paeans to love and regret. An example having such a reference is in Badfinger's "Baby Blue:
Sunday, February 8, 2015
KLEM FM
According to Wiki, the song "American Girl" never charted for Tom Petty. That doesn't seem right, somehow.
The video features a gorgeous collection of female faces from the golden era of American cinema.
Oh and the guitar is very Byrdsy.
Wednesday, March 19, 2014
WLEM AM
Where the living is easy.
Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast,
With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts—
O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power
So to seduce!—won to his shameful lust
The will of my most seeming-virtuous queen.
O Hamlet, what a falling off was there!
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