THE SPELL OF GIRLS
Four months ago today, a 12 year old girl by the name of Ananya Vinay won the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, DC. Happening that her first name begins with “A” leads to a question which leads to where this post is headed:
For some time now, I’ve been kicking around in my head the idea of a series of posts featuring old songs, each title of which is (or includes) a girl’s first name, beginning with “A” and continuing through the alphabet. I’ve hesitated to put this idea to the test for several reasons, the main one being that I question whether there is much of an audience today for one of my passions, namely old songs (loosely defined as 50+ years old). But then I thought: THE SPELL WITH IT! It’s my party….
So let’s get started. Fitting as it would be to get on the A Train with a song titled “Ananya,” I regret to say I know no such song. So I’m going to go with a gal who’s even older than I am, MISS ANNABELLE LEE. Hey, if she was good enough for Edgar Allan Poe, who wrote a famous poem titled ANNABELLE LEE, she’s good enough for me:
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Richard Cahill 11:12 am on October 1, 2017 Permalink |
Wish I had the subject for my next 25 posts figured out, Sr. Muse. Probably half of them will be about the Caucasian in Chief, but I don’t know which half.
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mistermuse 11:39 am on October 1, 2017 Permalink |
I can only hope to find songs with girls names for the next 25 letters of the alphabet, Ricardo. I’m already anticipating trouble with “Z” (unless there’s a song titled ZELDA after the wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald), assuming I can get that far without allowing for a few Xceptions.
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Richard Cahill 11:53 am on October 1, 2017 Permalink |
There’s Xena, the Warrior Princess. She probably has a theme song. Let me know if you need further assistance
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mistermuse 7:39 pm on October 1, 2017 Permalink |
Thanks, Ricardo, but Xena wouldn’t qualify, as I’m looking for oldies (over 50 years old). If I’m going to stretch the ‘rules,’ I’d rather go with The X-MAS SONG (there must be girls born on Christmas day whose parents named her Christmas).
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Carmen 6:45 pm on October 1, 2017 Permalink |
Well, I can help you out with the third letter of the alphabet . . . Never mind a song, there’s an opera! 🙂
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mistermuse 7:12 pm on October 1, 2017 Permalink |
Are you admitting that you’re a diva, Carmen? (Not that I would hold it against you, because I’m a very broad-minded fellow!) 🙂
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Carmen 7:29 pm on October 1, 2017 Permalink |
I don’t think that’s quite the way that phrase goes, Mister. Isn’t it supposed to be, “If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?” (From a very broad-bodied woman). 😉
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mistermuse 8:08 pm on October 1, 2017 Permalink
That version sounds like something Groucho Marx said in A NIGHT AT THE OPERA — perhaps to Margaret Dumont, a very broad-bodied woman in the same film. In any case, I apologize for asking if you’re diva-ish, because I’m sure there isn’t a devious bone in your broad body….which is more than I can say of myself.
Why do I get myself in these situations anyway? 😦
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Don Frankel 7:42 am on October 2, 2017 Permalink |
Will this be only first names? If not well next up has to be Miss Brown, Miss Brown to you.
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mistermuse 11:16 am on October 2, 2017 Permalink |
You’ve got B covered both ways, Don — Billie and Miss Brown (and a beautiful combination it is). As for “only first names,” that is my intention, but I’m not ruling out last names as a last resort in a particular case.
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