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Albums with the longest song titles – Straight Dope Message Board

Am I Blue (1944) Hoagy Carmichael

I’ve always liked Hoagy Carmichael’s “I’m a Cranky Old Yank in a Clanky Old Tank on the Streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama Doing Those Beat-o, Beat-o, Flat on my Seat-o Hirohito Blues”. …

Songs born in tough times and raised on the rhythm of spindles …

The records they made in such places as Memphis, New York and Chicago had titles like “Gastonia Gallop,” “Walk Right in Belmont” and “Charlotte Hot Step.” Most of the musicians worked in Gaston County mills and played on the side, never making much … The millworker musicians loved old-time tunes from the hills, but they embraced a wider range of music that included blues, jazz and Tin Pan Alley. “It was almost cutting-edge in its day,” Wyatt said. ‘Cotton Mill Colic’ …

Blues Traveler – “Amber Awaits”

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