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Thank you so much, Brad; this was buckets of fun! I suspect you've infected a few people with your "paperback rider" mondegreen too.

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Glad you enjoyed it all, Jackie, and thanks for precipitating (oh, wait....that's rain, isn't it?)!🌧

It took a little courage to "admit" that cool memory, but, I figure no one's gonna besmirch the rememberies of a mid-'60s pre-teen! And, as I've discovered (from the kind notes from readers), my bear-trap memory is one of their favorite reasons they love FR&B! I can dig it!

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This was a lot of fun! Jackie’s one of my regular reads on Substack and she didn’t disappoint. Both of you threw out a bunch of gems, both from artists well known and completely unknown to me. Lots to explore!

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Good to hear, Mark! That's what we go for, here.....a little old, a little new, a little gold, a little blue! Jackie's definitely a bright, new star on the #MusicStack horizon, and it'll be fun to see how she grows!

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Just brilliant! Thank you. So much great music. So much great insight!

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Thanks so much, Chris! And, I get to do this every week! Jackie is a joy!

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This was a lot of fun!

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Thanks, Thea! Glad you enjoyed! Mad props in Jackie's direction!

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100% for all y’all!

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What a great Tune Tag! As a linguist, I couldn’t resist checking Jackie’s website. Very interesting stuff.

I loved her self-imposed rules and how she stuck to them! Raising the stakes 😉

It was also fun to see how Brad took the “ball” more towards his territory (liner notes and the like) and how quickly Jackie adapted to it. You were both very much in… well, I have to: very much in tune! 🤣

Fab work!

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Thanks, Andy! So much of what makes Tune Taggin' so challenging! Especially with brand new people each week! A juke here, a juke there, and always trying to not only "go with the flow," but discovering just what the flow is (and could be)! Too much fun!

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And it never disappoints! Thanks for keeping the magic alive

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Whoo boy, that was fun. No reason for Jackie to feel imposter syndrome here!

I love the two opening songs ("Piggyback Ride" and "Paperback Writer") both really fun and surprising. I don't know how many covers Brad had to listen to, but the effort was worth it.

I'm surprised/fascinated to learn that Brad was engaged to a bigwig at a Christian record and book store. . . .

The Toto and Hall & Oates songs were both fun, and throughout the whole episode the transitions are great. Everything feel like it flows nicely (except, maybe, for Rush --> Liason) and each choice introduces a new idea to the conversation. Very impressive.

I took Jackie's advice to look up the Scritti Politti song on genius, and that definitely helped me understand some of the references I would have missed (though I disagree with the Genius annotator that it is, "perhaps the only pop song to ever reference Immanuel Kant." -- Monty Python would like a word with them: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9SqQNgDrgg )

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Thank you for your kind words, NickS. And doubly so for the Monty Python song: it's been far too long since I've heard it.

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Thanks, Nick! I enjoyed getting to musically know Jackie! She made some great song choices! It was fun to finally find a place to put my longtime, fond memory of hearing "Paperback Writer" on the radio!

As for my brief '91 marriage, we were amazed that, with my experiences in the "secular" music world, and her respected place in the CCM lane (Amy Grant was planning on attending our wedding, until we had to change dates, and she couldn't make the new date!), we were coming together as kind of a marriage of all-around music-ness!!

As for Manny Kant (I'm betting even Eric Idle would struggle to call that Python song a "pop song," but, tomatoes/tomahtoez!), I noticed another reference, several years ago, that claimed "Boom There She Was" was the only song (pop or otherwise) to mention the word, "pharmacopoeia"! That may or may not include Dylan's voluminous decades-long output!

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I was going to say that the Monty Python just happened to be the one I thought of, and that I'm sure there are other examples. Perhaps, but not many . . . https://www.lyrics.com/lyrics/immanuel%20kant

I do know a song based on a book by Kierkegaard . . . but I don't know any other songs that use the word pharmacopoeia. ( https://earnestnessisunderrated.substack.com/p/two-songs )

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I might've even read an interview with Green who may have said that about pharmacopoeia....can't recall. I'm far less well-read than I am well-listened (to records), so all I can do is sit back and enjoy some of the humor, as well as the spectacular numbers game in the amount of words and names able to be used for anything, anywhere, and the sheer mountain of recorded works....how is it possible there STILL are Funk & Wagnall's entries that haven't been touched by ANY songwriter, anywhere?! Staggering!

Whatever I may have read about Green, I'd love to know why and how he was motivated to employ that little-known "p"-word!

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There is something fun about hearing a song that makes an unexpected word choice and, after that, anytime you hear the word you think of that song.

I'm blanking on examples at the moment but I always think of the line from "Oliver's Army" about, "With the boys from the Mersey and the Thames and the Tyne" when I hear a reference to the Tyne. (that's a place name not a word, but you get the point).

pharmacopoeia is a rare enough word that it's probably unlikely to run across it and think, "oh, like the Scritti Politti song . . . "

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Yeah, I getcha! For all the hoo-haw I chuckle at my lack of attention on most lyrics, I most always drilled into Elvis's lyrics! I learned quickly he was wise, witty, and often dang hilarious (like a British, new wavey Martin Mull, who himself was an hilarious lyricist...basically, a stand-up with a guitar)!

And, in his case (and frequently, Difford & Tilbrook), their "wordiness" and loquaciousness was terribly entertaining, and oddly, mostly made the melodies work that much more!

Take EC: If the melody to "Oliver's Army" was any less riveting, his lyrics wouldn't "stick" as easily as they do. And, within 2-3 first listens, that catchy melody helped us memorize that odd line you quoted (and in that order...I know I'd never sing "With the boys from the Tyne, the Mersey, and the Thames")!!

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Nice to meet you Jackie!

I like Eric Johnson and one of my favorite songs is with him and Satch, and Steve Vai: https://open.spotify.com/track/0YNX5hlNF3WTsRHayjCgga?si=0e95b3999da14faf

from the 'G3 In Concert' album.

🎸🎸🎸

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Nice to meet you, Paul! Do you have a YouTube link to the song? I'm not on Spotify.

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That. Is. FANTASTIC! Thank you, Paul!

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