The Music Goes On
Detroit-born Sonny Bono would have been 75 today. He wrote some fine tunes, but has there ever been a greater anti-climax than this line from Sonny & Cher's last hit in the 60s: "men still keep on marching off to war/ Electrically they keep a baseball score."
posted by LAGuy @ 12:13 AM
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I've always liked that line! I think this is one of those instances where today's culture doesn't fit a past culture. You take it for granted that "marching off to war" is some end of the world thing that ought to make NPR hosts cry, and of course there's all that 60's crap that is the home for that stuff when the song was written, but Sonny was a grown man, not a teeny bopper (how old was Cher?). I think "electrically they keep the baseball score" is a great capture of a time and fits right in with marching off to war and the rest of the song.
Code word breastsp. You can't tell me a tribe of monkeys wrote that one.
Cher was more than a decade younger than Sonny. By the time of this song she was just in her 20's.
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