lmao, good one.

Thanks Sully. We needed something funny with all the serious news.

That was funny, but I didn't like the one about the wall, was full of lefty talking points.

Back when I was active in MSN Groups,I used to make parodies like that. My best one was set to "Where Did All the Money Go?" by the group Baby and was titled "Where Did All the W's Go?" about the Clinton White House taking all the w's off the keyboards before they left.

American Pie is a classic tune, but I argued one day in chat w/ a British woman who declared "the day the music died" was when Lennon got shot and killed. I thought she was just trolling but soon found out she was serious. I had to explain to her that the song came out quite a few yrs. before Lennon was murdered. She came back after doing some research and still maintained that Lennon's death was more devastating to music than was Buddy Holly's death. Some people, y'know? <sigh> She wouldn't even acknowledge the influence Holly had upon Lennon and McCartney as young men and didn't believe me when I said the "Beatles" was a homage to the Crickets.

Thanks Mike. That song was about Buddy Holly's tragic death, sorry to pop her balloon. I remember hearing about the plane crash when I was a kid. No telling where music would have gone had he lived.

I hadn't been to Lubbock since h.s. but my dad and I took mom down there for an eye procedure and I wanted to tour the Buddy Holly museum but didn't have time. Not far from the museum was an auto body repair shop named...."Body Holly".

The Buddy Holly Story w/ Gary Busey as Holly is one of my favorite flicks. Jon Voight did a great job in Coming Home that yr. but Busey's performance was better, absolutely brilliant.

Thanks Mike. I did not see that movie but will check it out sometime.

I meant to add that Voight won Best Actor that yr. in the Oscars, but I thought Busey was robbed. He does all the singing and captured the essence of just who Holly was.

And that British woman; she was very smart, always did well on our weekly trivia chat sessions, but I was "gobsmacked" that she did not know that about Holly or about American Pie.

BTW, I used to have a cool English teacher and he once assigned us to pick out a song and interpret the lyrics. A girl in class chose American Pie but just copied the interpretation straight out of a "Teen Magazine" article on the tune. I chose Elton John's "Levon" and it was a chore, esp. since there was no Internet back then. I did pretty well, got an "A" for my effort even though I missed on a few things.

Thanks Mike. Interpreting song lyrics is just not my strong suit.

I've watched quite a few "What the lyrics meant" vids here lately and it's made me get back into them, at least going back to the songs of my youth and reading the lyrics and say "Oh! Duh!" I also like reading about the origins of band names.

Not all, but so many rock tunes are about sex, but that's what "rock 'n roll" originally meant, esp. with the blues and other music from black folks, going back to 1914 and Trixie Smith's "My Man Rocks Me With a Steady Roll".

No wonder parents disapproved of it so much, huh! LMBO. I love AC/DC and ZZ Top, but I think well over half their tunes are about S-E-X. <grin>