Friday, May 23, 2025
"Ha! Ha! Said the Clown"
In the line "Is it bringing you down that you've lost your chance" in "Ha! Ha! Said the Clown," the phrase "bringing you down" is sung to a descending group of notes (spanning nearly an octave: D C# B E), musically illustrating the meaning.
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Ha! Ha! Said the Clown
Thursday, May 22, 2025
"Each and Every Day"
I listened to Mighty Garvey! recently and noticed some small features.
In the title line of "Each and Every Day," the phrase "ev'ry day" is sung to notes of all different pitches (A C D), giving a sense of number.
I have some more significant comments about the line "There's no doubt about; she can't do without my love" (although maybe it should be formatted as two lines: "There's no doubt about / She can't do without my love"). Poetically, "there's no doubt about" and "she can't do without" complement each other since they have the same number of syllables and they rhyme. (There are even short rests after each line as if to point out this balance.) Semantically, though, "she can't do without" is incomplete. It needs "my love" to finish the sense, and this grammatical sort of dependence matches the meaning. In a way, this is the opposite of what I noted years ago in the lines "Got a feelin' goin' for each other, yeah / I could never leave her for another girl," where "girl" isn't necessary in terms of syllable count or semantic completion.
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