Word: hoorah
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Third Hoorah," Anderson rejoices in his Scottish heritage. Employing every instrument from baritone to synthesizer, this is the catchiest melody on the record. He even enlists the help of a couple of bagpipe players (found, he says, outside the entrance of a London department store honking merrily away) which give the air of a Scottish reel to the piece...
...Worldly Music, Hill presented 15 campaign songs from forgotten elections, many of them set to popular tunes of their day: "Oh dear, what can the matter be?/Women are wanting to vote!"; a rollicking boast of "Hoorah, hoorah, the country's risin'/ For Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen" to the tune of Old Dan Tucker; and a plaintive complaint about Prohibition with Old Black Joe's lyrics changed to "I'm thirsty, I'm thirsty/For the beer we used to know./I hear the gentle voices cal-ling,/'Have one, Joe.' " The truly grand...