Friday, February 21, 2020

Combination Block

Friend:  You okay?  Composer:  I can't think of a title for this song.  I'm pretty sure I've already used every combination of words in the English language at least once.  Friend:  So you've already used "Baiting Tangerine Monkeys from Miranda"?  Composer (studying the sheet music):  ...that works surprisingly well.  Friend:  You're welcome.

Last year someone made a comment to this effect on the RPM website.  This is what we call "asking for it," because what followed was, predictably, an onslaught of suggestions for utterly bizarre song titles that I'm very certain had not been used before.  
But it's not the first time that a composer's friend had a hand in inventing a silly title - apparently Beethoven's "Rage Over a Lost Penny" got its name this way. 

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