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  • June 19, 2007 at 3:51 am #108711
    David Ice
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    Audrey, I’d never heard those ones!

    June 20, 2007 at 3:46 pm #108712
    kreig-kitts
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    I was recently reminded of Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet, which prompted me to mention the nickname I have for Juliet’s second aria: “Shut Up and Drink It Already.”

    July 12, 2007 at 5:13 pm #108713
    Elizabeth Volpé Bligh
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    Sorceror’s Appendix by Duck Tuchas (Dukas)! (Sorry.)

    July 12, 2007 at 11:20 pm #108714
    Catherine Heise
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    It’s not “harp”, but how about “there’s a bathroom on the right” for the old Creedence Clearwater Revival song?

    July 13, 2007 at 1:08 am #108715
    Briggsie B. Peawiggle
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    “Once On a Meada” (meadow) for Guantanamera.

    July 13, 2007 at 3:51 pm #108716
    John McK
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    Carl writes: “I’m sure we’ve all heard foreign students refer to the Concerto for Fruit and Harp by Mozart. I need a vacation…”

    In England there is a blues band, and all the members are of Japanese ethnicity. So the name of the band is “We Pray The Bruise”

    July 13, 2007 at 4:03 pm #108717
    unknown-user
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    being a “foreign” type myself, what can I say….

    July 13, 2007 at 4:59 pm #108718
    unknown-user
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    My whife calls Rimsky-Korsakov “Rimsky-Corpusov” as Rome (Rim in our language) Corpus

    July 14, 2007 at 5:11 am #108719
    unknown-user
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    Ha! I’ll remember that one! I’m playing at the Polish club next month (they have the most beautiful hall..)

    July 17, 2007 at 4:37 pm #108720
    unknown-user
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    How About “Tantum Ergo Makes Your Hair Grow” – a throwback to Catholic grade school.

    November 26, 2009 at 12:21 am #108721
    Fearghal McCartan
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    I know this is a jolly old post now but I came across this one the other day. Vaughan Williams – Flos Campi is now known as Flo’s Scampi.

    Fearghal

    November 26, 2009 at 1:52 am #108722
    paul-knoke
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    And Respighi’s “Pints of Rum” and “Fountains of Rum”, or Tchaikovski’s “Waltz of the Flow Snakes”, not to mention Mussorgsky’s “Pictures of an Exhibitionist”……

    November 27, 2009 at 8:07 pm #108723
    tonie-ogimachi
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    Taco Bell’s Canon in D, a processed classical music piece often played at weddings.

    November 27, 2009 at 9:24 pm #108724
    gorman-jones
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    How Lovely Are the Mason Jars Mendelssohn

    January 4, 2010 at 9:59 pm #108725
    Mel Sandberg
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    I could have sworn I’ve replied to this before, but I don’t see my reply.

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