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jem and jess
Aug-28-2004, 17:41 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
 | can someone please tell us what the story is behind You Can Call Me Al! it´s driving us mad!!! please reply!!!!!! |
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Kuno
Aug-28-2004, 18:55 GMT
IP:
Switzerland
 | go to http://www.thedreamerofmusic.com/EXPLAINS/EXPLAINS
.htm
it´s song nr 89
(I´d like to put the statement directly in here, but I don´t dare to copy/paste from that site...) |
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john.p
Aug-28-2004, 18:56 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| Paul does have an excellent explanation of what this song is about on his "classic albums" Graceland DVD. At a party Paul invited a famous conductor/musician whose name I forget and he heard Paul and Peggys names as "Al and Betty" and for a while they called themselves those names for a joke. I tend to think the rest of the lyric is somewhat auto biographical. not wanting to end up a cartoon in a cartoon graveyard is a reference to paul and a career that was not exactly hot at the time after Hearts And Bones and before. Graceland. |
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pet
Aug-28-2004, 18:59 GMT
IP:
Hungary
 | As far as I know it all started by Paul and then wife, Peggy giving a party. One of the guests brought with him a French conductor. I can´t remember his name at the moment but he is supposed to be famous. He only stayed at the party about an hour or so, and when he took his leave he said to Paul:"Goodbye Al, say hello to Betty." Paul found it so amusing, he didn´t correct the man, and in the ensuing weeks they called each other Al and Betty with Peggy, just for fun. |
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pet
Aug-28-2004, 19:00 GMT
IP:
Hungary
| Oh, I can see we all replied about the same time. lol |
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Micky
Aug-28-2004, 23:48 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| I am so glad I´m not the only one who does that Petra....lol
Hugs
Me |
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Scaaty
Aug-29-2004, 01:14 GMT
IP:
Ireland
 | I think this is one of the songs with a double meaning in it. I´ve always felt the tin whistle section would make for a good dial tone, and recently one of the threads mentioned they had it. Is there any way it can be got for a Siemans phone |
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Micky
Aug-29-2004, 01:53 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| I think this may be it Scatty :-)
http://www.free-ringtones.eu.com/free_ringtones/Si
mon_And_Garfunkel/You_Can_Call_Me_Al/
Hugs
Me |
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Micky
Aug-29-2004, 02:32 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| Hehehe it seems Call Me Al is a Simon & Garfunkel song and is from the 60s...really?!
Hugs
Me |
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jem and jess
Aug-29-2004, 16:14 GMT
IP:
United Kingdom
| thanks !! thats rele helped! |
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Bodo
Aug-30-2004, 16:09 GMT
IP:
Austria
 | Uh, I´ll delete the discussion about TDOM now...
(Bodo - stilly copying after all these years) |
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Amber
Aug-30-2004, 20:27 GMT
IP:
Netherlands
 | Bodo,
I like that one!! ( the Bodo, SCAATY )
Amber |
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