Wednesday 20 April 2016

Inverted Pyramid of Piffle (US style)

Further to  my post on transatlantic pleonasm - posted last October, and still requiring regular updating - probably the most clearly documented record (7" in this case, a No.5 in the UK ) of this seemingly insatiable need for linguistic encrustment comes from the category of transatlantic popular culture known as Easy Listening, subsection Knitting Pattern Model Style: Andy Williams' performance of Can't Take My Eyes Off You. 

Faithful to the song's actual title in 1967, but by 2002, this .(Interestingly, the poster of the 1967 version on YouTube has titled it with Andy's 2002 version of the lyric.)

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