Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 21 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: news
Like many people, I would walk home from school singing daft theme tunes from television. The writer of two of these, the “Addams Family” theme and “Green Acres”, has just died in Los Angeles at the age of 93. Mizzy was the master of silly but catchy tunes, and was kept busy well into his [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 14 Oct 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, news
Image via Wikipedia As I reported here a while back, LyricWiki was recently served notice that it could no longer supply its lyrics to various applications. Rather than go the way of so many web-based initiatives, it is now being incorporated into Wikia and has negotiated a deal with Gracenote that will do two interesting [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 18 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: awards, events, meanings, news, politics, RIP, tip
The infobahn is alive with Susan Boyle’s rendition (nice word, eh?) of the Rolling Stones’ “Wild Horses”. There is an overwhelming opinion that Boyle has now recorded one of the definitive versions of the song. This, however, is seen as sacrilege by others, who cling to memories of the Stones and Gram Parsons. This sort [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 14 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: news, politics
Given the control that the Chinese authorities try to maintain over other arts, it’s hardly surprising song lyrics are now being targetted. According to a report on China’s Global Times, song lyrics found to be vulgar, violent, or in otherwise poor taste now face removal from Chinese Web sites. The Chinese Ministry of Culture has [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 07 Sep 2009 | Tagged as: meanings, news
I just got back from Normandy, which has been celebrating the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landing this year. So it was a strange coincidence to discover that Dame Vera Lynn is back in the UK charts with a compilation based around “We’ll Meet Again”, the song written for the movie of the same name [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 27 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: news, RIP
Elton John, Cher, Tina Turner, Mariah Carey, Bette Midler, Celine Dion, U2 and Twisted Sister are just some of the performers that have covered Elle Greenwich songs.
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 24 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, meanings, news
As WordPress users are often told by WordPress, “code is poetry“. But what happens when coders take a look at songs and determine the logic behind the songs? A geeky in-joke has now become one of Twitter’s funniest trends. Type #songsincode into the Twitter search engine and you’ll be bombarded by song titles and lines [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 10 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: news
Willy De Ville – Cadillac WalkUploaded by doctor_strangelove. – See the latest featured music videos. There’s a strange lack of obituaries for Willy DeVille, who died on August 6, 2009 of cancer. How could the media miss the passing of such a remarkable singer and writer? De Ville created songs of incredible musical intelligence and [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 06 Aug 2009 | Tagged as: gadgets, news
A number of lyric applications are about to lose their source of lyrics. Sean Colombo of LyricWiki has informed them that due to licensing restrictions from some of the major publishers, LyricWiki has to stop providing lyrics through the LyricWiki API. People were using this to run various applications, such as connecting lyrics to Last.fm [...]
Posted by The Accidental Lyricist on 28 Jul 2009 | Tagged as: news
I was on Twitter again last night, and I must say that the sheer number of posts about lyrics is phenomenal. So I did what I have been humming and hawing about for some time, I opened an A_Lyric Twitter account. Their widget (on the right column) is buggy. So to hook up with me, [...]