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1 posted on 03/30/2011 5:04:06 PM PDT by fatima
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This thread still in the sidebar...scanning through, among the many "don't" songs, more than few of them were quite good.

I can't say I ever cared much for Fleetwood Mac's "Don't Stop". Particularly after seeing Bill & Hillary, along with wooden Al Gore, uh, dancing to it at their second Inaugural, and having one of the over-paid talking heads of the time gushing, "this administration has rhythm".

No, they didn't have rhythm. They couldn't dance a lick. And that's not a "dance" tune, anyway.

On a more positive note; The Street Soul guys in England doing "I don't want to know about evil" (I only want to know about life) was excellent. A highlight of the thread IMO.

But there was one old "don't" that seems to have been left out, and it was a hit back in it's day. Tragically, the singer/writer died in a plane crash.

Jim Croce You Don't Mess Around With Jim SLIM!

I guess these lyrics are not as unforgettable as they once seemed.

I often wonder what guys like him could have yet come up, if he had lived.

Nothing against Mr. Croce, I was a fan. But I miss Stevie Ray so much more.

One more obscure "don't", found in a song lyric (which I at one time had a fine vinyl pressing of, and find modern digital versions miss much of the depth & warmth of sound that could be found in the better analog pressing, back in the days when good phonograph needles were actually available).

It came to mind by Hoodat posting "don't kill the whales". Here's a partial lyric of a much better anti-whaling song, in that had wider appeal. It was beautiful in it's time, albeit repetitious;

Song to the last whale, Crosby/Nash

540 posted on 04/09/2011 4:17:00 PM PDT by BlueDragon (tonto he got smart said listenkimmosabe, kissmyass I boughtaboat, I'm headedout to sea)
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(Don’t) You Love Her Madly - The Doors


543 posted on 04/10/2011 2:32:47 AM PDT by Ophiucus
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Don’t Fear The Reaper, Blue Oyster Cult


544 posted on 04/29/2011 12:02:33 AM PDT by metalurgist (I Want your country back? It'll take guns and rope. Marxists won't give up peaceably.)
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