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  2. Brass in Pocket - Wikipedia

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    The song's title derives from a phrase she overheard after a show. "Brass in Pocket" became the band's biggest hit to that point, reaching number one on the UK singles chart and number 14 on the US Billboard Hot 100. Its music video was the seventh video aired on MTV on its launch on 1 August 1981. [3]

  3. Rhyming slang - Wikipedia

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    Ghil'ad Zuckermann, a linguist and revivalist, has proposed a distinction between rhyming slang based on sound only, and phono-semantic rhyming slang, which includes a semantic link between the slang expression and its referent (the thing it refers to). [15]: 29 An example of rhyming slang based only on sound is the Cockney "tea leaf" (thief).

  4. The Tin Lids - Wikipedia

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    The group also released four singles: "Christmas Day" (December 1991), which reached No. 40 on the ARIA Singles Chart and won Children's Composition of the Year at the 1992 APRA Awards, a cover version of Was (Not Was)'s song, "Walk the Dinosaur", "School" (August 1992) featuring The Yunupingu Kids (children of Mandawuy Yunupingu), and ...

  5. Night Boat to Cairo - Wikipedia

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    It was remixed slightly for inclusion on the band's eponymous 1983 album compiled for the United States. The song is featured in the 2011 Wii video game Just Dance 3. The song is often used by Madness to close live concerts, and "Night Boat" has passed into cockney rhyming slang as a term for a giro, or unemployment benefit cheque. [1]

  6. Chas & Dave - Wikipedia

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    Chas & Dave (often billed as Chas 'n' Dave) were an English pop rock duo, formed in London by Chas Hodges and Dave Peacock.. They were most notable as creators and performers of a musical style labelled rockney (a portmanteau of rock and cockney), which mixes "pub singalong, music-hall humour, boogie-woogie piano and pre-Beatles rock 'n' roll". [1]

  7. Jimmy Riddle - Wikipedia

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    "The Hambone Brothers" became a semi-regular feature of the show. In the early 1980s Riddle joined Boxcar Willie's touring band, playing the harmonica solos, but remained in Acuff's band on the Opry. [citation needed] Riddle is commemorated in Cockney rhyming slang: to go for a Jimmy Riddle is to urinate or piddle. [1]

  8. I Should Coco - Wikipedia

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    The album title is Cockney rhyming slang for "I should think so". [2] The front cover of the album is a painting based on three separate photos of Coombes, Goffey, and Quinn. The portraits of Coombes and Goffey were taken by Quinn in the summer of 1994 when he was experimenting with a macro lens. [ 12 ]

  9. Tippecanoe and Tyler Too - Wikipedia

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    A campaign banner with the "Tip and Ty" slogan, derived from the song. The song was written by Alexander Coffman Ross, a jeweler of Zanesville, Ohio, in 1840, to the music of the minstrelsy song "Little Pigs". He first performed it at a Whig meeting in Zanesville, and it came to national attention when, traveling on a business trip, he ...