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Thread #123596   Message #2725035
Posted By: Thompson
16-Sep-09 - 06:38 PM
Thread Name: Most Scary 'Love' Song Lyric
Subject: RE: Most Scary 'Love' Song Lyric
A song banned in the Depression because it was so often found with the needle of the phonograph spinning over and over around the centre of the 78, in apartments and houses and in the sound booths that were the jukeboxes of the time, during an era where suicide had an almost sexual attraction (police patrolled in pairs who were forbidden from separating after a pair saw a group of people joining hands on a bridge to leap off together to death, and one cop said "I'll go and talk to them" - his horrified partner saw him join hands with the last in the chain and jump with them): Gloomy Sunday. [lyrics]