Songs · Skopia

Every song chosen by hand, with the recording to play it.
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6 songs

You're a Grand Old Flag

1906

Cohan called it 'You're a Grand Old Rag' until objections forced the change; a million sheet-music copies followed.

★ 2.5

Wabash CannonballRoy Acuff

1936

Recorded in 1936 with someone else singing lead, then cut again by Acuff in 1947, a train that never existed.

★ 5.6

1980

A parody of American can-do optimism, modelled on Pynchon's limericks, that MTV turned into Devo's only Top 40 hit.

★ 6.9

1968

No rhyme scheme anywhere, just Simon reworking a 1964 road trip with Kathy Chitty until the emptiness lands mid-verse.

★ 7.3

1989 · From Freedom

Sampedro joked about the free world after a Soviet tour collapsed, and Young debuted the song in Seattle unrehearsed.

★ 7.5

1968

Simon had it as Mrs. Roosevelt with nonsense syllables for a verse, and it won Record of the Year.

★ 7.9