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Thread #168923   Message #4081099
Posted By: BobL
27-Nov-20 - 01:55 AM
Thread Name: What makes hit song lyrics
Subject: RE: What makes hit song lyrics
My copy of the Oxford Companion to Music mentions a writer who, noting the preponderance of the vowel sound "ooh" in hit songs, composed "Barney Google with the goo-goo-googly eyes". Unfortunately I can't remember whom (not Eddie Cantor as credited on songfacts.com).