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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]
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]
The song has a pop-oriented feel, featuring an upbeat tempo and a brass-like synthesizer line. On the original album, it is humorously subtitled " Part IV: 'Gangster of Boats' Trilogy ." The song was performed on the Roll the Bones Tour and did not appear in concert again until the 2012 Clockwork Angels Tour , with an added drum solo.
There Goes Rhymin' Simon is the third solo studio album by American musician Paul Simon released in May 1973. It contains songs spanning several styles and genres, such as gospel ("Loves Me Like a Rock") and Dixieland ("Take Me to the Mardi Gras").
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).
"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]
Brass Construction was an American funk group formed in Brooklyn, New York, United States, in 1968. They were originally known as Dynamic Soul, [ 1 ] and went on to record a string of hit singles and albums through 1985.
"Getta Bloomin' Move On! (The Self Preservation Society)" was the closing theme of the film and was performed by members of the cast; the lyrics feature Cockney rhyming slang. [4] Many incidental themes are based on English patriotic songs, such as "Rule, Britannia!", "The British Grenadiers" and "God Save the Queen".