Titles or lines in songs that aren't applicable if at all today. Phones not included

They had a short window of opportunity to use Greg Lake's lyrics on his one tour with the band:

And now you find yourself in 83
The disco hotspots hold no charm for me

 

Elvis' Return To Sender:
No such number,
No such zone...

Zones were replace [well, superseded really] by zip codes.

 

Billy Bragg - Accident Waiting To Happen

"There you are standing at the bar
And you're giving me grief about the DDR"

 

Chuck Berry's Too Much Monkey Business:
Working in the filling station,
Too many tasks,
Wipe the windows, check the oil,
Check the tires, dollar gas?...

And from the same song [although definitely telephonic references]:
Pay-phone, something's wrong,
Dime gone, will mail.
Oughta sue the operator
For telling me a tale

 

I love ROck and Roll
Put another dime in the jukebox baby



The WHO Pinball Wizard



Is that Marty Feldman?

 

Chuck Berry's No Money Down:
Well Mister I want a yellow convertible
Four - door de Ville
With a Continental spare
And a wide chrome wheel
I want power steering
And power brakes
I want a powerful motor
With a jet off - take
I want air condition
I want automatic heat
And I want a full Murphy bed
In my back seat
I want short - wave radio
I want TV and a phone
You know I gotta talk to my baby
When I'm ridin' alone

I want four carburetors
And two straight exhausts
I'm burnin' aviation fuel
No matter what the cost
I want railroad air horns
And a military spot
And I want a five - year guarantee
On everything I got
I want ten - dollar deductible
I want twenty dollar notes
I want thirty thousand liability
That's all she wrote

 

Buddy Holly - 'What to Do'

The record hops and all the happy times we had
The soda shop, the walks to school now make me sad, oh

 

Oh, is that what they were singing?
I always heard something much snarkier,
"...some disco hot shot's on the job for you."

Well ,never mind...

 

Hope I die before I get old

 

The Boy in the Bubble - Paul Simon

I know it refers to the miracle of the "long-distance call" but to call our times in 2020 - pandemic, chaos and all - days of miracle and wonder would seem out-of-kilter.

 

This is no longer TRUE! Polaroid cameras have made a comeback.

I know DS was into "cut-up" and "found poetry" techniques in his writing. I've always wondered how he got the "Gentlemen take polaroids" line/title.

Was it in an ad somewhere for Polaroid cameras. Would be wild if it was something he gleaned from a Japanese airline in flight magazine or something.