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This video was posted on the Language Hat blog and showed up in my RSS feed today. Thought some of you would get a kick out of it.

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That's brilliant.
As I just posted on my blog, I had been intending to join the campaign to get John Cage's 4:33 as the Christmas number one single but I think I'd like to see this there instead.


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That is great, WM! BTW, it is nice to see you back. We have missed you.

I posted it to my Facebook page, Bob. But the Blog idea is a good one, too.
 
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Kalleh, I saw your post on FB, and Bob, that is a great idea. Even my husband loved this video, and he doesn't even follow anything about linguistics.

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I've already posted it on my FB page, along with a suggestion that we start a new FB group to get it to No. 1! I've got one "Like", from CW.

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I guess I am behind the time with Facebook. How do you make something number 1?
 
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There's always a big fuss round about now because the music companies release the the recordings they figure will get to number one in the charts at Christmas. Because a lot of people are buying recordings as presents the sales volume is greater than at other times of the year.

There was a campaign on Facebook a couple of years ago to get a song by a virtually unknown band to number one in the charts at Christmas, and it succeeded, much to the annoyance of the music industry. I can't remember now who the band was, but I do remember I thought the song was dire.

There are at least two Facebook campaigns going on to get music to number one in the Christmas charts that I know of. One is for John Cage's 4'33", and the other is for The Pogues' Fairytale of New York. Almost certainly there are others.

EDIT: The band last year was Rage Against the Machine

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One is for John Cage's 4'33", and the other is for The Pogues' Fairytale of New York.

Both of them excellent pices. The Pogue's song is one of my favorite, and I even have a cover version of it in the Cologne dialect of German, Kölsch.


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