Do you know this song? (well, maybe you all do)

[Basil]

Well, I just stumbled upon this in my internet wanderings. I'm actually too young to remember this, so maybe it's not new to you at all 🙂
Great man, Simon, btw 😎




Kodachrome
( Paul Simon )

When I think back
On all the crap I learned in high school
It's a wonder
I can think at all
And though my lack of education
Hasn't hurt me none
I can read the writing on the wall

Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

If you took all the girls I knew
When I was single
And brought them all together for one night
I know they'd never match
My sweet imagination
And everything looks worse in black and white

Kodachrome
You give us those nice bright colors
You give us the greens of summers
Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah!
I got a Nikon camera
I love to take a photograph
So Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome away

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)

Mama, don't take my Kodachrome
(Leave your boy so far from home)
Mama, don't take my Kodachrome (away)

More Lyrics


😀 😀 😀 😀

 

[Biber]

Welcome to RFF. Do you know this one? 🙂


"I Am A Total Devotee of Leica M Photography"
Copyright (c) 2004 Peter A. Klein
Sung to the tune of "I Am the Very Model of a Modern Major General"
Apologies to Gilbert and Sullivan

- - - - -
Scene: A photographic gathering in a posh metropolitan hotel. The
Master Amateur is holding forth on the glories of Leica. He is dressed
in a battered old raincoat and a French beret. In his hand is a
battered M3 covered with black tape. He is surrounded by a chorus of
paunchy middle-aged men, each wearing an enormous autofocus SLR with
zoom lens. The lenses bounce on their bellies when they sing.
- - - - -

(MASTER AMATEUR)
I am a total devotee of Leica M photography.
I will not buy a digicam, I won't do videography.
I read the work of Lager with his product list canonical.
I'll never use a plastic lens with focus ultrasonical.

I look at other cameras with an attitude that's whimsical.
I do not want an SLR with viewing pentaprimsical.
The look of glass from Asia makes me squint my eyes and squirm a knee.
I'd rather get my lenses from a little town in Germany.

(CHORUS)
He'd rather get his lenses from a little town in Germany.
He'd rather get his lenses from a little town in Germany.
He'd rather get his lenses from a little town in Germa-Germa-ny.

(MASTER AMATEUR)
I will never put my camera on a tripod that is teetering.
I cannot understand the need for modern matrix metering.
Look back upon my history, it's all in my biography:
I am a total devotee of Leica M photography.

(CHORUS)
Look back upon his history, it's all in his biography:
He is a total devotee of Leica M photography.


(MASTER AMATEUR)
I love my Leica cameras with passion that's tyrannical
A rangefinder, a floating frame, and everything mechanical.
The shutter curtain's rubberized, and fashioned from the finest silk.
The lenses have a bokeh that is smooth as summer buttermilk.

My fifty f-two Summicron takes landscapes that are lyrical.
I pierce the gloomy shadows with my Summilux aspherical.
I must have Leica quality although it costs me lots o' bucks.
I bought a ninety APO, I'm saving for a Noctilux.

He bought a ninety APO, he's saving for a Noctilux.
He bought a ninety APO, he's saving for a Noctilux.
He bought a ninety APO, he's saving for a Nocti-Nocti-lux.

I develop all my Tri-X film in acid that's ascorbical.
I try to make my photos have a reference metaphorbical.
And so throughout my history, you'll find in my biography:
I am a total devotee of Leica M photography.

(CHORUS)
And so throughout his history, we find in his biography:
He is a total devotee of Leica M photography.


(MASTER AMATEUR)
I want to be like Eisenstadt and Smith and Frank and HCB.
I take my Christmas photos in a style that's documentary.
I never shoot at weathered rocks and twisted trees and gnats and logs.
There's universal pathos in my pictures of my cats and dogs.

I lurk in bars and coffeshops, and stalk the streets with Delphic glee.
To shoot unwary passers-by with Leica mounted pelvically.
But when I spy a plant that has a lovely flower's bloom upon.
I take a dazzling close-up with my dual-ranging Summicron.

(CHORUS)
He takes a dazzling close-up with his dual-ranging Summicron.
He takes a dazzling close-up with his dual-ranging Summicron.
He takes a dazzling close-up with his dual-ranging Summi-Summi-cron.

(MASTER AMATEUR)
And although I've tried the other brands they always are inferior.
They can't resolve the fuzz upon a baby's bare posterior.
That's why throughout my history, you'll find in my biography:
I am a total devotee of Leica M photography.

(CHORUS)
That's why throughout his history, you'll find in his biography:
He is a total devotee of Leica M photography.

------------
--Peter Klein
Seattle, WA

 

[Basil]

Ouch! That sure will hurt the feelings of some people somewhere 🙂 But it is a masterpice, definitely. I liked the cats and dogs line most :0

 

[hoot]

From Desafinado (Off Key) by João Gilberto:

Fotografei você
na minha Rolleiflex
Revelou-se a sua
enorme ingratidão
Só não poderá falar
assim do meu amor
Este é o maior
que você pode encontrar

(And a translation: "I photographed you / with my Rolleiflex / It exposed your / enormous ingratitude / Only you will not be able to speak / like this of my love / This is better / than you are able to find")

 

[Heath]

What about this one?

Freeze Frame
J. Geils Band

I could see it was a rough-cut Tuesday
Slow-motion weekdays stare me down
Her lipstick reflex got me wound
There were no defects to be found
Snap shot and it froze without a sound

Thursday morning was a hot-flash factor
Her face still focused in my mind
Doo-dloo-dloo
Test-strip proof-sheet love is hard to find
Doo-dloo-dloo
Friday night we danced the spotlight grind
Doo-dloo-dloo
Stop time heart for me if she's not mine

Freeze frame, freeze frame
Freeze frame, freeze frame
Freeze frame, freeze frame
Freeze frame, whoo, and I freeze

Now I'm looking at a flashback Sunday
Zoom lens feeling just won't disappear
Doo-dloo-dloo
Close up, dark room, sweet talk in my ear
Doo-dloo-dloo
Her hot-spot love for me is strong
Doo-dloo-dloo
This freeze-frame moment can't be wrong

Freeze frame, freeze frame
Freeze frame, freeze frame
Freeze frame, freeze frame
Freeze frame, whoo, and I freeze

Shoot, shoot - doo-dloo-dloo
Shoot, shoot - doo-dloo-dloo
Shoot, shoot - doo-dloo-dloo

Freeze frame, freeze frame
Freeze frame, freeze frame
Freeze frame, freeze frame
Freeze frame, whoo, and I freeze

Yeah!

Freeze frame, oh yeah, freeze frame
If I could freeze frame, freeze frame, freeze frame
If I could freeze, she's real, whoo, freeze frame
If I could freeze, she's ahhh, freeze frame
If I could shoot, shoot - doo-dloo-dloo, freeze frame
If I could shoot, shoot - doo-dloo-dloo, freeze frame

 

[Heath]

Or maybe this one.

Photograph
Def Leppard

Huh!
I'm outa luck, outa love
Gotta photograph, picture of
Passion killer, you're too much
You're the only one I wanna touch
I see your face every time I dream
On every page, every magazine
So wild so free so far from me
You're all I want, my fantasy

Oh, look what you've done to this rock 'n' roll clown
Oh Oh, look what you've done

Photograph - I don't want your
Photograph - I don't need your
Photograph - All I've got is a photograph
But it's not enough

I'd be your lover, if you were there
Put your hurt on me, if you dare
Such a woman, you got style
You make every man feel like a child
You got some kinda hold on me
You're all wrapped up in mystery
So wild so free so far from me
You're all I want, my fantasy

Oh, Look what you've done to this rock'n'roll clown
Oh Oh, Look what you've done

[Repeat chorus]

You've gone straight to my head

Heath

 

[peter_n]

Biber thanks for posting that brilliant sonnet by Peter Klein. I have the original post saved here somewhere - I believe it was on the LUG.

 

[dmr]

Well, I just stumbled upon this in my internet wanderings. I'm actually too young to remember this, so maybe it's not new to you at all 🙂

I'm not too young to remember it. 🙁

If I recall correctly, Kodak did not like the use of the brand name Kodachrome in the commercial recording, however Nikon sure did! 🙂

Very soon it seems like some will be saying that they will be too young to remember Kodachrome, the film. 🙁 Oh well ...

 

[JoeFriday]

and who can forget "Pictures of You" by the Cure?

the words

 

[dmr]

and who can forget "Pictures of You" by the Cure?

"Faded photographs, covered now with lines and creases ..."

Shades (traces) of a simpler more innocent time ... 🙂

 

[kiev4a]

Man, I know I'm getting old when somebody says he's hearing Paul Simon's "Kodachrome" for the first time. :bang:

 

[Krasnaya_Zvezda]

Well, I just stumbled upon this in my internet wanderings. I'm actually too young to remember this, so maybe it's not new to you at all 🙂
Great man, Simon, btw 😎




Kodachrome
( Paul Simon )

Thanks, Basil! Now the %##^& thing is stuck in my head for the next couple of days!
:bang: :bang: :bang:

 

[Krasnaya_Zvezda]

From Desafinado (Off Key) by João Gilberto:

Fotografei você
na minha Rolleiflex
Revelou-se a sua
enorme ingratidão
Só não poderá falar
assim do meu amor
Este é o maior
que você pode encontrar

(And a translation: "I photographed you / with my Rolleiflex / It exposed your / enormous ingratitude / Only you will not be able to speak / like this of my love / This is better / than you are able to find")

Ah! I'm saved! 😀 😀 😀
And what beautiful lyrics, I never knew the translation.

 

[nwcanonman]

Hell Yes I remember when "KodaChrome" first came out. All the radio stations cut out the word "CRAP" from the first line.
Boy, have we come a long way.

 

[garyc]

I was in Birgelen in Germany (just over the border from Roermond, Holland) briefly in early 1973 and British Forces radio (or maybe it was AFN) were playing "There Goes Rhyming Simon" incessantly. Happy days. For some reason 'Kodachrome' never seems to get played much at all now.

While not wishing to lower the tone, older punks may remember the slightly obscure "Radio Stars" and their song "Dirty Pictures" which contained the immortal line "I get my kicks up in the attic ... with a Kodak Instamatic".

Gary

 

[jwcat]

I was stationed in Naples Italy in '73 and AFN was playing this all the time. Yes, good times, those that I remember. 😎

 

[Jon Goodman]

Does anybody remember a song from the mid-1950s named "Delicado"? It was a Brazilian song performed by a Brazilian band...can't recall who and can't recall where I got it--it was given to me by somebody maybe around 1954 or 55. I think Percy Faith or Lawrence Welk or somebody later neutered it and re-introduced it. The peppery version I had would make dead people get up and dance. I played it until the phono needle literally wore it out. Man, what a hot instrumental it was.
Jon

 

[jwcat]

It was Percy Faith, I just checked it out.

 

[ChrisN]

"Photographs and memories" - Jim Croce