Word: dum
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perspective born of a decade's distance from the Stooges finds expression in "Dum Dum Boys," Iggy's tribute to his old band. The song begins with a short finger-popping catalogue of the whereabouts of the boys since the band split up. A raspy but bell-like guitar melody launches a well-structured ballad of alienation. "What happened to James?" "He's gone straight." states the prologue. But Iggy (a.k.a. James Osterberg) has lost his voice with the demise of the band...
Each of these hopes is a realistic one, and two are more than quite ironic. On the one hand, think of how blasphemous it will be to root for the Terriers, as in the "Dum, dum, dum...Screw B.U." Terriers, against the Friars on television Saturday...
...Garden, where the Terriers have lost but thrice in their last 21 starts, and where tonight, as befits the 25th Beanpot final, Harvard and B.U. loyalties will be compared to the tune of Dum, Dum, Dum...
...spontaneous combustion," Comden says of their composition. Green revealed a little more of the reworking that went into songs that play effortlessly now. "Sometimes you have a great tune. Lenny had this theme: da da dee, da da dum, -- Green picks the tune out on his chair--"and for a long time it was known in New York living rooms, very much to our embarrassment, as da da dee, da da dum. And then we found the phrase: 'Just in time...
...prime example. Wilson was for it when he was Prime Minister in 1969, then vigorously opposed it two years later when he was out of office and polls showed Market membership to be unpopular, then reversed himself again in 1975. But his deft handling that year of the referents dum ratifying Market membership ended a long, divisive domestic debate on Britain's link to Europe...