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Talk:Makin' Whoopee

message: Surely some of the infirmation in this entry is irrelevant: "In 2008 for the music series Spectacle, Elton John revisits 'Whoopee" as part of a trio with Elvis Costello & Diana Krall. This version stays true to the campy original. Elton executive-produced the series and Ms. Krall married Elvis December 5th, 2003 on Elton John's estate outside London."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.198.246.199 (talk) 20:39, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  TMI 

message: I get the impression that this entry is made up of 2 seperate facts, possibly concatenated by mistake when the article was edited into a list: "During the late 1990s, Cadillac used the song in ad campaigns for the DeVille sedan. Many different versions of the song were recorded, most notably by Ray Charles, Anita Baker and Dave Koz (the last two in a duet)."  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.198.246.199 (talk) 20:41, 12 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edit error 
Talk:Mama from the Train

message: Irving Gordon was born in Brooklyn and cut his teeth in the Catskills on the borscht circuit. Wikipedia doesn't say, but he was probably Jewish. Even if he were not Jewish, he would have heard Yiddish and Yinglish in Brooklyn, and probably throughout his life.
Yiddish and Pennsylvania German are different languages. But both sometimes inflect accusative and dative differently, so it would be natural for a native speaker to get the English word order wrong.
Even if you cannot speak Yiddish or Pennsylvania German properly, if you grew up in a community where they were widely spoken, these sentences would not be garden path sentences; they would be easily parsed, albeit with a chuckle — which was obviously Gordon's intent.
--  Solo Owl   18:25, 12 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Not Pennsylvania Dutch
Talk:Fujio Cho

message: CHO Surname:  Fujio Cho as an joke to Chinese and Korean reporter.  He once said Cho family surname can be traced to Korea or China.  Japanese nationality who has Cho or Ko family surname. 99.9 percent can be traced to Korean Family surname.  Not China!!!!!!!!!!  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Koreanancestry (talk • contribs) 02:56, 29 July 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: He is not purely Korean. It is believed that he has Chinese blood. Google it. I'm not sure who it comes from, however. 75.5.2.56 (talk) 03:29, 9 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Cho

message: http://japanese.joins.com/article/085/93085.html?sectcode=&servcode=300
「私の名字は張です。 韓国語でいうとチャン（張）ですが、日本には珍しい名前で、私の考えでは先祖が中国や韓国から来たのではないかと思います」。
CHO says that there is not evidence. Because it was a rare family name, he guessed.
It is rare, but there is a Japanese called cho. Don't fabricate information. 219.160.59.33 (talk) 10:13, 9 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  False information. Cho is KOREAN or Chinese. 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Mgiganteus1
Mgiganteus1 describes false information.　219.160.59.33 (talk) 17:38, 10 January 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: My mistake. I only intended to re-add the reference. mgiganteus1 (talk) 00:33, 12 January 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Ethnicity Chinese and Korean." Bring a source of information. 
Talk:Mambo Italiano (song)

message: Article lacks references.  Also, the statement that the most famous recorded version is by a Tyler Tinsey is a plug by a user--the two famous recordings are Rosemary Clooney and Dean Martin  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Stanz61 (talk • contribs) 05:35, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: Is it me or is this song not at all suitable for dancing mambo? PizzaMan (talk) 16:59, 7 November 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: A valid point. No, it's not just you PizzaMan, and I hope this now emerges somewhat at least in the lead. 31.50.193.233 (talk) 09:44, 23 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mambo? 

message: I'm aware that the current 'lead' has now quite outgrown WP:LEAD guidelines, and that the page needs restructuring. I hope to get there sometime soon... 31.50.193.233 (talk) 13:17, 24 March 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead... 

message: Mention of sampling of [Rosemary Clooney's recording] of the first verse of Mambo Italiano in Lady Gaga's song Americano has been on the present page since 2014. When I expanded the content/sourcing of the page in 2017 (under a different IP address  ) I did not get around to sourcing this claim, although at the time it seemed to me (as still does) wholly plausible, and since then further plausible detail was added by another editor (Special:Contributions/Nelatti @User:Nelatti), though without sourcing it. At least one potential reliable source for this content exists, though I accept that a decision on what content should be retained/trimmed on this matter may require some discussion. 109.145.91.130 (talk) 15:18, 18 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lady Gaga's song [[Americano (song)|Americano]] 

message: Per it:Mambo Italiano (permalink), the Italian in the lyrics was the work of Gian Carlo Testoni (under the pseudonym 'Lidianni') and Gaspare Gabriele Abbate ('Gabba'). That convincingly explains how Merrill was able to juggle the Italianate lexical humour. So far, about the closest I've come to identifying even a partial RS for this (assuming SecondHandSongs.com  doesn't qualify) is at the end of Scuderi (2010), where, in a list of Renato Carosone songs,  Mambo Italiano is listed as being "by Marill, Lidianni, and Gabba"  (Lidianni and Gabba being known pseudonyms  ). 
So no signed napkin, so to speak... But if some Joe wanna mixing up a mozzarella an do a bac a lab – hey mambo! – it could be so delish, 'ats nice. 109.145.91.130 (talk) 10:18, 22 February 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Marill, Lidianni, Gabba 

message: Article mentions "The word tiavanna is a malapropism for Tijuana." Where in the song is this? Is this just some irrelevant trivia unrelated to song lyrics? ~~ Crazytonyi (talk) 01:42, 26 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tijuana?
Talk:KBTZ

message: Was KBTZ shut down on June 12?  If so, can viewers in SW Montana receive another FOX station instead? - Desmond Hobson (talk) 18:03, 16 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Current fate?
Talk:Aksel Lund Svindal

message: The article states that he's from Kjeller, and from Lørenskog. Kjeller is located in Skedsmo, an adjacent municipality to Lørenskog. I suspect the thing is that he was born at Ahus hospital, where most Akershus births take place (I think). Therefore I take the chance of adding him to Category:People from Skedsmo. Please make changes if need be__meco (talk) 23:09, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Place of birth 
Talk:Man on the Edge

message: I had added Wiki tags to a section, someone decided to revert the article without providing any reason or adding any content.  I've restored what was there, the whole point of Wikipedia is the links between articles. Andy Johnston (talk) 16:39, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Revert

message: I've added some references to this page plus uploaded the other covers
--Gr8sshopper 05:26, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
thread_title: ref an covers
Talk:Mana Mou

message: There is almost no biographical information on the Hara & Andreas Konstantinou article (there's almost no information at all actually) so I think it would be better to cover both the artists and song on the same article until there is enough information to write a non-stub article. Thryduulf (talk) 12:03, 25 October 2018 (UTC)
replies: text: Given that no suppose, closed. Klbrain (talk) 20:44, 8 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed merge
Talk:Al Atkins

message: I'd like to edit the date of birth and place of birth. Date of birth: 14 October 1947. Place of birth: West Bromwich (England). The date of birth is wrong all over the internet, and it was wrong on this wikipedia page too (11 October 1947), so I think it needs to be clarified, and wikipedia is the best place to do it. My first attempts at doing so didn't have the editors' blessing, so I'd like to make sure next time it won't get undone. The best source I can come up with is the book: Atkins, Al & Daniels, Neil. "Dawn of the Metal Gods". IronPages Books. Page 10. .  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.16.215.156 (talk) 10:33, 24 October 2016 (UTC)
replies: text: The source seems reliable, but I can't verify the details because Google Books don't offer a preview. Materialscientist (talk) 10:56, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

text: Here's a link that takes you to a photo of the page (I've edited out non-relevant parts): https://s15.postimg.org/p16xd52qj/page_10.png  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.16.215.156 (talk) 12:25, 24 October 2016 (UTC)

text: Have you seen the photo? (it will expire in a couple of days) Will my edit with that source get undone? Thanks.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2.136.127.8 (talk) 08:09, 26 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Date of birth and place of birth
Talk:Manic Monday

message: Tbhotch: I don't know if you're interested in expanding the article, but I found an interview in The Guardian from 2003 that briefly touches upon the song:
But they did find themselves in the peculiar situation of having a string of hits that didn't really sound like them. It began when Prince took a shine to the band and gave them a present: a box containing a tape of Manic Monday. Despite painfully rhyming "Sunday" with "I-don't-have-to-run day", it was an international hit. It was also their eventual undoing. The Bangles' cherished insistence that they were equals and didn't have a traditional frontperson evaporated in the face of Hoffs' lead vocal and false press rumours of a romance with Prince.
"It was a slippery slope," says Peterson. "By the time we released singles where it really was multiple vocals, it didn't really defuse that perception. People like to paint it as girls having a catfight but it was more the frustration of not being perceived as a unit."
A Quest For Knowledge (talk) 23:18, 9 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thank you A Quest for that useful information, I just added, and thus these rumors are closed. TbhotchTalk C. 00:38, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  2003 Guardian Interview 

message: The progression, from D to A7 in the beginning, is all wrong. Anyone without a tin ear can hear it. Unfortunately, this error has been propagated to many other 'pedias'. Brett Alexander Hunter (talk) 13:22, 24 January 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Progression 

message: Is there no reference which mentions the similarity to Cat's "The Wind". To me it sounds almost certainly plagiarized or at least heavily influenced by it. ♦ Dr. Blofeld 08:55, 21 September 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Cat Stevens
Talk:Mannish Boy

message: To me this is the most significant song of 20c. Let's engage on this, but you better have a damn good argument vs. the biggest blues star of the era shouting "no b, o, y, child , I'm a Man". 220.235.198.225 (talk) 15:27, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Are you serious? 

message: Seriously, this page makes me question my committment to wikiness. Are there any editors from the US who actually get it? I have my doubts. Can we please address the racial bias on this important but fuck-ed site to register that a top seller in the 1950s by a black performer shouting "I'M A MAN" (not a boy)  barely rates a whimper? It made a splash at the time [citarion needed]. Whatevs, I think wikipedia is just more of the cultural whitewash, and likely beyond redemption. Too bad. Good idea but screwed by cultural politics (= people in the US are so ignorant). Stevensims (talk) 15:48, 24 March 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: It's reasonable to assume the world of Wikipedia editors is biased and the group of people editing Wikipedia doesn't equally mirror society.  That said, make any edits you'd like, or encourage people you know to.  -KaJunl (talk) 16:15, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: True, but the second paragraph of the introduction clearly states the political significance of the song and has been in place since 2019.  Ghmyrtle (talk) 15:37, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  This is cringworthy 

message: Does it warrant a mention that the hook etc. was borrowed in Bad to the Bone, since Bad to the Bone seems to be a significant song?  -KaJunl (talk) 16:13, 17 July 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: "Mannish Boy"'s repeating guitar phrase or riff is derivative of predecessors "I'm a Man" and "Hoochie Coochie Man". Thorogood's song is similarly derivative (he alters it a bit), which is mentioned and referenced in the "Bad to the Bone" article. I don't think it warrants including here (see :WP:SONGTRIVIA). —Ojorojo (talk) 14:15, 24 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Bad to the Bone
Talk:Al B. Sure!

message: Wikipedia Assessment Drive Yamara 00:38, 6 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled

message: needs a free content image --Mopzofcrates (talk) 01:19, 16 July 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  image 

message: Why is he referred to as Brown in some instances, and Sure! in others? Shouldn't we use his surname, Brown, when writing about him? Looks silly to have one section referring to him as Brown, then the next section refers to him as Sure! Paige Matheson (talk) 02:08, 28 January 2017 (UTC)
thread_title:  Why? 

message: Is is he still a radio host on 102.3 FM 76.151.138.214 (talk) 00:26, 24 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is Al B Sure still on 102.3 FM in the evening
Talk:Al Baxter

message: I have added a lot of sources but there were some statements that were clearly intimate knowledge in the rugby community and not notoriously known--well, I couldn't find refs to them on Google, ProQuest or Trove. So I am removing a couple of the dubious sentences. Please feel free to revert this edit if/when you can find appropriate refs. Having done this clean up, I am also removing the BLP Unsourced tag. Again, please revert if you disagree. Cabrils (talk) 00:18, 22 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: BLP sources
Talk:María Elena (song)

message: An infobox was requested for the Los Indios Tabajaras version of "Maria Elena" at Wikipedia:WikiProject_Missing_encyclopedic_articles/List_of_notable_songs/9.
Info contradiction: The song Maria Elena is identified as having been composed for Maria Elena, wife of Emilio Portes Gil.  The Wiki page for Emilio Portes Gil found here:  
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emilio_Portes_Gil
denotes spouse as Carmen Garcia w/no additional entries.
Tokachke (talk) 17:41, 22 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled
Talk:Maria Maria

message: The sentence at the end about a restruant chain doesent seem to be verifiable without a citation.Marlith 02:37, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Verifibility

message: The reference title CLEARLY says "Eminem", not Santana. --108.211.193.185 (talk) 08:41, 10 August 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: ???

message: What is the name of the actress that plays Maria in the official Santana video  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.16.221.93 (talk) 03:23, 25 December 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  who is the Maria actress
Talk:Marian antiphon

message: Is there a lot more to say on this topic or should it just be merged into Antiphon (and become a redirect)? It will probably get more traffic there.--Sabrebd (talk) 08:14, 28 June 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I appreciate the suggestion, but there is in fact a lot more that could be said just on votive antiphons; Antiphon (in need of cleanup!) already has a section that properly belongs here. Sparafucil (talk) 21:00, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Which section is that?--SabreBD (talk) 21:23, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Move

message: Agree Should be merged here as singular should be used as per WP:NAME.--SabreBD (talk) 18:42, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal

message: The topic is separate and while a cross-reference to each other would be useful, when working on a liturgical issue, it's helpful not to have to wade through a longer discourse on antiphons generally, when all one might need is a text or a history of the function of the genre itself. I also agree that more could be said on this topic alone, which wouldn't be appropriate in the more general article on antiphons; the fact that it doesn't function in quite the same way as the others, and how and why, would be a good start...Dellaroux (talk) 19:34, 8 May 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree with Dellaroux that antiphon by itself is a separate issue, but I think hymn is yet another idea as suggested below. History2007 (talk) 13:49, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggest not merging

message: Please see Talk:Hymns_to_Mary regarding a suggestion for bringing this material into hymns given that the major items are hymns anyway. And I think there is no need for having the text of the 4 antiphons here, given that each has it on its own page. Once that goes away, it will be a small page anyway and may fit well within hymns. Ideas? Thanks. History2007 (talk) 13:44, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree about the text, which is not needed here. I am going to take a little time to think about the merger proposal.--SabreBD (talk) 14:15, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Fine. Take your time. These antiphons have been around for centuries, a few days does not make much difference. History2007 (talk) 14:20, 5 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Any further ideas Sabre? History2007 (talk) 15:47, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I am fine with the merger, once the text has gone it will just make a small section, but just wondering how this should related to the Antiphon page.--SabreBD (talk) 19:24, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Ok, splendid. Now, there are only 2 ways we can relate to antiphon, either just put a link, or add a "also" hatnote. I do not mind either way. But let us move the text and then see what looks best. History2007 (talk) 20:45, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: That's great. Lets go for the hatnote as readers might be going there looking for the specific topic.--SabreBD (talk) 22:06, 13 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Marian hymns
Talk:Marianne (Terry Gilkyson song)

message: At least one of the versions credited to Harry Belafonte (Belafonte By Request), in reference 3, is a different song entirely, also named Marianne. What's a more reliable sort of reference checking than YouTubes for fixing it?199.200.31.194 (talk) 22:57, 7 November 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reference checking?  

message: §  History says
: "Mary Ann," composed by calypsonian Roaring Lion (born name: Rafael de Leon), was popular with steelbands and revelers during a spontaneous Carnival celebration on V-J Day in Trinidad in 1945, at the end of World War II. The song's lyrics alluded to Mary Ann's occupation:    
:: All day, all night, Miss Mary Ann    
:: Down by the seaside, she sifting sand
1:
In the track listings of Harry Belafonte's albums (  Belafonte Concert in Japan,   Belafonte by Request ,   Belafonte...Live! ) the song is credited to William Eaton. And the title of this article credits Terry Gilkyson. Can we please settle on one name, and that the right one?
2: Also: 
: The song's lyrics alluded to Mary Ann's occupation.
And that is...? It's not obvious to me. Prostitute? An encyclopedia is no place to be mealy-mouthed.
Please  me to discuss.
--Thnidu (talk) 03:55, 27 July 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: None of those attributions are correct. Follow citation 1 and read carefully. It plainly states that Roaring Lion regularly recording "calypso standards" and names Mary Ann among other tracks. This song is a traditional calypso with no known composer. See here: https://books.google.com/books?id=Z6TpuVW6QA4C&q=marianne%20song%20%22roaring%20lion%22&pg=PT884#v=snippet&q=marianne%20song%20%22roaring%20lion%22&f=false 66.129.219.127 (talk) 18:38, 27 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Author? Occupation?  

message: I have replaced the link to a YouTube TV performance by the Hoosier Hotshots (wildly inappropriate IMO!) with links to the original 1945 recording by Roaring Lion (de Leon), and the highly popular Terry Gilkyson recording (1957) which gives the article its title. There is a slightly later recording by 'The Lion' (de Leon) on UK Parlophone, variously dated to 1946 or 1951, available on Youtube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGjqNGJYaPw. The quality is much better than the earlier recording, but the one I selected appears to be the earliest known recording; it also has some contemporary pictures. There is another early recording by 'Sir Lancelot' at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTUXcjU-hHU that sounds earlier to my ears; I will do more digging, but would appreciate help from 78 record buffs & calypso musicologists; I suspect the folk-song is older even than the Lion's version, and he may have just been the first compiler & popularizer, as happened with many popular calypsos. --D Anthony Patriarche (talk) 02:04, 11 August 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  External Links 

message: ...reference only a page in a book, rather that a shot of the actual chart. AMCKen (talk) 08:12, 3 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Chart Ranking
Talk:Al Bumbry

message: Why Stub-Class?
*Article is classified as a stub
*Article is Short
*Article is unreferenced
Why Mid-importance?
*Player won rookie of the year award
Other Comments:
*Expand with gusto!
*Add an Infobox
*Add a picture
*Add references
Belril 20:48, 9 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: My Comments
Talk:Marica tú

message: This page was redirected to the page Dragostea din Tei due to the little amount of information that was in the article, like its other redirect Marica tu. --Germanico5468504 (talk) 22:27, 6 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Redirection
Talk:Marrakesh Express

message: A poster insists on trying to include a line that says "In the album version, the track begins with Nash whispering some Arabic gibberish before the music starts." There are four problems with this statement: (1) Every source says that Crosby whispers the gibberish. (2) If it's gibberish, then it's not Arabic, which is an actual language. (3) It's trivial and doesn't need to be in the article. It adds nothing. (4) Even if it is relevant and were fixed, it's in the wrong section.
I intend on undoing this addition every time it appears. My question for others who may read this is: How do I get this poster to stop? Is there a place to complain?
Bob Caldwell CSL (talk) 13:43, 29 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Arabic Gibberish
Talk:Al Downing (baseball)

message: His fastball exploded and his curveball danced. - Is it just me, or is that a little too flowery for Wikipedia?
NOTE:  I've seen in a baseball trivia game that Al Downing is the only player who was active and in uniform in the stadium when Maris hit his 61st home run in 1961, when Mantle his his 500th homer, and when Aaron hit his 715th homer to pass Ruth's lifetime record.  I don't know if that's true or not, but have seen it in two separate places.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.178.188.182 (talk) 18:06, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: While possible, that's literally trivia, and Downing is already notable for his own accomplishments. Echoedmyron (talk) 18:11, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Untitled