Songfacts

Songfacts  Song meanings, lyrics and trivia.

Here are a fcouple of examples:

• Afternoon Delight (The Starland Vocal Band 1976)

• This is a double entendre song inspired by the late-afternoon appetizer menu at the restaurant Clyde’s Of Georgetown in Washington, DC. The other meaning is daytime sex.
• This was the only hit for The Starland Vocal Band, who won the Grammy for Best New Artist of 1976.
• Despite having only this one hit, they were given their own TV show called The Starland Vocal Band in 1977. An unknown comic named David Letterman appeared on the show.
• Under the name Fat City, the group sang backup on John Denver’s “Take Me Home, Country Roads.” Bill and Taffy Nivert co-wrote the song.
• This was used in two 2004 movies that were set in the ’70s: Anchorman and Starsky and Hutch.
• At Clyde’s they have a gold record from this song hanging in the restaurant.

• Strawberry Field was a Salvation Army home in Liverpool where John Lennon used to go. He had fond memories of the place that inspired this.
• John’s aunt Mimi did not like John going to Strawberry Fields, as it was basically an orphanage and she thought they would lead John astray. John liked going there because having lost his father and later his mother he felt a kinship to the lads. When John and his aunt would argue about his going he would often reply, “What are they going to do, hang me?” Thus the line “Nothing to get hung about.”
• This was released as the flip side of “Penny Lane.” The Beatles often released singles that contained a song written by Lennon on one side, and a song written by McCartney on the other. Which single was considered the A-side was sometimes a point of contention.
• This was the first pop song that faded to silence and then came back. The fake ending drove DJs nuts.
• Just after Lennon sings, “Let me take you down ’cause I’m going to,” there is a series of beeps which, in Morse Code, form the letters “J” and “L.”

Really cool stuff here.  A person could spend weeks going through all this.

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