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Raumo
May-29-2006, 13:05 GMT
IP:
Israel
 | "Was A Sunny Day": this song seems to have more then it´s fair share of "interesting lyric Possibilities".
Hay, I know I´m still crazy but I Love looking into the words and what might be behind them.
It started when I realized that both "Newport News" and "Speedo" were names of clothing stores, and then I found that "Lorelei" is a NY brand of designer handbagsâ?¦strange!
Andâ?¦look at this:
"According to German legend, there was once a beautiful young maiden, named Lorelei, who threw herself headlong into the river in despair over a faithless lover. Upon her death she was transformed into a siren and could from that time on be heard singing on a rock along the Rhine River, near St. Goar. Her hypnotic music lured sailors to their death. The legend is based on an echoing rock with that name near Sankt Goarshausen, Germany."
[Link: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/l/lorelei.html]
Ok and what about this (might have been one of "the favorite melodies":
SPEEDOO /Esther Navarro
Performed by: The Cadillacs (1955)
Well, now they often call me Speedoo but my real name is Mr. Earl
(Earl, Mr. Earl)
Well, now they often call me Speedoo but my real name is Mr. Earl
(Earl, Mr. Earl)
And I´m just the kind fellow´s always takin´ other folks´ girls
(Girls, taking their girls)
They often call me Speedoo ´cause I don´t believe in wastin´ time
(Time (don´t believe in) wastin´ time)
They often call me Speedoo but I don´t believe in wastin´ time (Time
(don´t believe in) wastin´ time)
I´ve known some pretty women and I´ve caused them to change their
mind (Mind, change their mind)
[Whole song: http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/s/speedoo.
shtml]
Sure, it could all be coincidence, and I know I have an overactive imagination, but it´s fun to speculate, isn´t it?
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Nikki
May-29-2006, 13:30 GMT
IP:
Australia
 | hey that speedoo mr earl song is interesting. that´s probably where he got the line from. hmm i´ve never really thought about the lyrics for Was A Sunny Day. it´s always just been a song that puts me in a good mood, especially if it really is sunny! |
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marmotte
May-29-2006, 20:11 GMT
IP:
France
 | well, interesting indeed, I never analysed that song, thanks for those reflexions and searchings ! |
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Klausi
May-30-2006, 06:26 GMT
IP:
Germany
 | Thank you Raumo, for this. I also never thought about this verse.
The album shows Simon in a happy mood except American Tune, in contrast to Still crazy, where Gone at last is the only happy/hopeful song.
So I always thought it is not meant cynical, although the navy man and the high school queen are a little bit confusing too.
I think it is just imagination and could be well have written by him today.
Maybe interesting for you: Paul Simon was at the Loreley in St. Goar in 1991, the best open-air place I know. Very romantic, good sound. (Was there too). There is a plaque at the place he was sitting in the Restaurant there (outside).
After the concert quite a lot of fans heard the concert just taped on their DAT-Recorders and later singing his songs in a warm summer night sitting around the fire with some of them playing guitar. They stayed overnight. Remember "Duncan" was played.
I heard all this because I had problems to find my car in the dark and to wait very long to drive away, because it was a one-way-road.
The light was on much longer than normally after SOS (last song) and I saw the bus with the musicians escape first, whilst all others expected another song. Understandable on such a large tour, "to get some rest". |
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Klausi
May-30-2006, 08:19 GMT
IP:
Germany
| The link of the "speedoo earl song" doesn`t work for me.
I`m quite sure that "earl" for Simon is the legendary intellectual and much praised writer Anthony Ashley Cooper, third Earl of Shaftesbury, 1671-1713.
Influenced almost all famous writers of his and later times, as Voltaire, Schiller, Goethe etc. and far ahead of his time. |
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scaaty
May-30-2006, 12:18 GMT
IP:
Ireland
 | I agree, I think the link with the earl of shaftsbury is a bit too intellectual even for paul. The 50´s song souds much more likely |
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babydriver
May-30-2006, 14:49 GMT
IP:
Germany
| Seems like I have to find that Restaurant with the plaque when I get to St. Goar the next time! |
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Klausi
May-30-2006, 16:07 GMT
IP:
Germany
| babydriver: "Berghotel Loreley" actualized their site in 2003. Can`t find the name Paul Simon anymore, but they wrote, they can show the place where he sat. Maybe there were too many other events in the meantime.
"Mr. Earl": maybe it is only from the 50`s-song but consider that Paul studied English Literature (with much more pleasure than law). |
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Raumo
Jun-01-2006, 14:27 GMT
IP:
Israel
| Thank you Klausi! I´m sure that Mr. Earl could have many meanings, and we can only have fun guessing. I never knew about that writer, I am so ignorent of literature. It is definatly an interesting thought. |
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