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Remember, Remember, The 21st Of September

It’s not every day you live in a song, Enthusiasts, and certainly not one this good.

(What other tunes mention specific dates? There’s a passel of Fourth of July songs–Bruce, and X, and even one by the band this website purports to be about–and there must be a Christmas song or two that mentions the 25th, but besides that? I’m not looking it up and neither should you. Let’s freeball this one.)

36 Comments

  1. Samallama

    Ode to Billy Joe ( don’t forget the Henry Kaiser version off of those who know history are condemned to repeat it)
    Papa was a rolling n stone, temptations
    Isis bobby d.
    Hmmmm, I’ll put the thinking cap on…..

  2. Samallama

    Two sevens clash – culture July 7,1977

  3. Meryl Shakedown Streep

    Friday Night, August 14

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hbr778CD3M

  4. Murray

    “Oh What A Night” gets as specific as “Late December, 1963”

  5. Murray

    “I married Isis on the fifth day of May”

    “Early morning, April fourth” (or is it ‘four’?)

    “All is quiet on New Year’s Day”

    Bono must have a thing for dates.

    • Murray

      Your post title reminds me of the Lennon solo song that references the Guy Fawkes rhyme. Can’t remember the name of the track, though.

      Also, Samallama beat me to the Zimmermen. Credit where credit’s due.

      • Murray

        Plus, also, Dayquil has ruined my spelling abilities. There’s only one Zimmy.

    • ReadingDoonesbury

      RE: “Early morning, April 4”: King was shot in the llate afternoon/early evening. They were getting ready for dinner.

      • Murray

        Leave it to Bono to take poetic fucking license with the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

        (more benign option) Leave it to Bono to not fact check when writing a song about the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.

  6. Hiro

    4th of July – Soundgarden
    1999 – Prince
    April 27, 1992 – Sublime (sorry)

  7. Samallama

    Yes we should elaborate, it was the third of June, ( ode to billy Joe
    It was the 3rd of September when my pappy dies, papawasrollinstone
    Isis 5 th day of May
    April four is how I always heard it.

  8. Samallama

    Indeed, should there be multiple Zimmy they can be referred to like moose as moose whether one or more.

    • Murray

      I could see David Attenborough breathlessly addressing the camera, “Here, in this upstate New York wood, one can observe a minyan of Zimmy in their natural habitat. Observe how one is cribbing phrases from obscure memoirs, whilst another feverishly tries to think of a new way to alienate its audience.”

  9. Samallama

    I can’t ‘remember’ what the Lennon track was called either, and thank you I had no idea about the guy Fawkes intertext.

    • Murray

      Your quotation marks jogged my memory. The damn song is called “Remember”. On John Lennon / Plastic Ono Band.

  10. JES

    Ooo . . . Beat to the punch on “Two Sevens Clash”!

    Third and Fourth of June in Neil’s “Desiree.”

    August Fifth in Danzig’s “Who Killed Marilyn?”

  11. Samallama

    And it’s so true , free your mind , and the rest will follow, funkadelic
    Nice.

  12. Tor Haxson

    He was born on a summer day, 1951.
    And with a slap of a hand
    He landed as an only son

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boAv-Bu4MrI

  13. Samallama

    The zimmy in the woods start to chant ‘frank Sinatra’ in frightening unison.

  14. Tor Haxson

    Fiddle tune “Eighth of January” is also known as “Battle of New Orleans”

  15. Samallama

    The funkadelic is overrated Hollywood actors post, yeah Meryl Streep I’m lookin at you.
    And if yer gonna allow late December 63 then you might as well allow and the band played waltzing Matilda by the pogues ‘every April

  16. Tor Haxson

    Am I stretching it too far with Paul Simon Armistice Day, or that Garcia song, just like Palm Sunday?

  17. James S. Flysnukka

    1940 X-mas eve
    By May 10th Richmond had fell.

  18. James S. Flysnukka

    Also, I’m not complaining cause I have never talked to the donate button and no one like a complainer. But Bobby was in the wsj today and I’m pretty sure he took over for António Guterres yesterday and nary a word.

  19. JES

    First of December in The Fall’s “Arms Control Poseur.”

  20. Samallama

    Nice by May 10th Dixie fell reference

  21. JES

    “First of May” by The Bee Gees.

    This one is harder that I thought it would be, without research . . . .

  22. ReadingDoonesbury

    Bryan Adams, “Remembrance Day.”

    The Box, “L’Affaire Dumoutier,” “On the 14th of October, very early in the morning.”

    Gordon Lightfoot: “Black Day in July”

  23. EyesDude

    Ruination Day (14 Apr), parts 1 and 2. (The incomparable Gillian Welch.)

  24. Karl

    Woke up waiting for a windy day
    Cat on I ? since the first of February

    • SmokingLeather

      “Kite on ice” I think. Actually I think it’s “I’m just waiting on a windy day” which fits thematically with having my “kite on ice”

      Also does anyone else remember leaving Texas? Maybe the fourth day of July might ring a bell?

  25. Luther Von Baconson

    early by a couple of weeks
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0g7KawdsVSQ

  26. Luther Von Baconson

    “The Was Grief Among People…….”
    Feb 2nd in the year of ’65
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dsynC4RRoHM

  27. samallama

    you should check out the sly and the family stone vids on youtube from soul train that i discovered last night thanks to this thread. you’ll have to search don’t have the links at the moment.

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