|
Abalone,
anemone, albacore what's the word I want? |
|
Albaugh:
"Play like we are beautiful and brave" |
|
Amanda
Gorman: "Being American is ... how we repair it" |
|
Amazing
Soap |
|
America
the Beautiful, above the enameled plain |
|
Are
you okay? I haven't heard from you lately |
|
Art
elicits reactions from animals |
|
"Because"
sung by Perry Como and nine Sara Niemietzes |
|
Beethoven's
"Ode to Freedom"?
|
|
Belafonte's
"Banana Boat Song" cartooned |
|
Benchley
tries to doze on a train |
|
Bended
knees are bent |
|
"Bespoke"
apparently means "spoken for" |
|
Chevrolet
celebrated in an old-timey song |
|
Christians
translate the Hebrew poetry of Job |
|
Classic
rock and holiday classics never fade away |
|
Come
to the fair, heigh-ho! |
|
Coventry
Carol's "little tiny child" isn't Jesus |
|
Dark
curtain descends across continent |
|
Demons,
in a 1597 book by Jimmy Stuart, inspire witch mania |
|
Dixieland-style
piano in a minor key |
|
Doggie
sings backup on an old song |
|
Durante,
Jimmy, knew how to sing Snowman, Frosty the |
|
Dylan:
"I'm just a song-and-dance man" |
|
"Eek"
in Chaucer and Shakespeare means "also" |
|
Evanier
passes 25,000 posts |
|
George's
guitar gently weeps over the coming disaster |
|
"God
Bless America" written and revised and premiered |
|
Grammys
are fading because we prefer older music |
|
Hair
opens at a theater I'd visited |
|
How
it'd be to have a famous face, and how not to fix the problem |
|
"Jingle
Bells" and other songs of romance are for February |
|
Land
ain't sure, mount do! |
|
Latin
joke |
|
Leap-year
kid, now 21, is not an adult; has had only five birthdays |
|
Ludwig
van Beethoven's sneaky start to his Symphony #9 |
|
Magnets
can't attract silver, according to Gilbert & Sullivan |
|
"Me
and Bobby McGee" broke up; freedom! (= nothin' left to lose) |
|
Melanie,
singer (flourished 1970-72) |
|
Melanie
and the candles in the rain |
|
Mendelssohn's
"Paulus" is essentially Bach |
|
Meter
of "You Really Got Me" is something original |
|
Moon
shines over our high school prom |
|
Mormon
names for "Alizabeth" and her kids |
|
Musical
instructions are often in Italian |
|
My
economically ravaged home |
|
National
Anthem was to Anacreon in Heaven |
|
Nellie
Bly's accomplishments, and Stephen Foster's "Nelly Bly" |
|
"O
thus be it ever" verse from the National Anthem |
|
Organ
keys mysteriously play themselves |
|
Palin-dromes
illustrated |
|
Partridge?
Pear tree? Perdrix? |
|
"Peter
Pan" is just an actor and can't possibly fly up off the stage, right? |
|
Prix
fixe? |
|
Repeating
the same phrase aids memory |
|
Repeating
the same word is avoided in English writing |
|
Rhymes:
"Hey Jude" |
|
Rhymes:
Inexact |
|
Rhymes:
Inventive |
|
Romeo,
wherefore art thou? That is, why? |
|
"Saming"
and "truthing" can be verbs |
|
Silent
Night's 1818 introductory homily imagined |
|
Smauggy
days desolated L.A. what, that's not the meaning? |
|
Songs
from the 1890's remembered |
|
Songs
from the 1960's learned late: "Soul Man," "Angel
of the Morning" |
|
Sonnet:
"Exasperating Janet," to a "truant" fellow student |
|
Sonnet:
"The ICE Colossus, after Emma Lazarus |
|
"Splicing"
as a synonym for marrying |
|
Synthetic
A's in the concert hall |
|
Taylor
Swift has all of the current Top 10 songs |
|
The
dying of the light |
|
Theme
songs for horse races and ball drops are very old |
|
THISISASEASYASONETWOTHREE |
|
Understanding
opera (i.e., the words) |
|
"Update
the poor Image, before it gets grumpy!" |
|
Versions
of literary works, including Shakespeare |
|
Women
join the Philharmonic and, in fact, form a majority |
|
Yacht
dispatched! (Does that rhyme?) |