On Thursday, June 11, 1992 at 3:39:55 PM UTC-6, Doug Landauer wrote:

The longest title probably belongs to Christine Lavin, but I can't find it right now. The song was about all of the things she hopes will happen to her boyfriend because he went skiing without her.
Anybody know? I'll try to find the info...

This is, in fact, the song which caused me to introduce this
topic into rec.music.folk, from alt.folklore.*, where it had
previously been living. Unfortunately, I forgot to cross-post
the article itself; I only sent followups to r.m.f.

Here (for what it's worth) the a.f.* article that inspired these followups:

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From landauer Fri Jun 5 18:27:37 PDT 1992
To: alt.folklore.computers,alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Longest Songtitle (was re: longest word)
Followup-To: rec.music.folk
Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mt. View, Ca.

Don't know about the longest word, but how 'bout the longest
pop song title:

^^^

Jan and Dean's "Anaheim, Azusa, Cookamonga ..."

"The sound of several species of small fury animals ..."

(is Pink Floyd "pop"?)

Christine Lavin does have one song with a rather long title. Now, I
wouldn't presume to claim that it's the longest pop song title, but it's certainly the longest one I've ever heard. As I recall, it's

"Regretting what I said to you when you called me at eleven
o'clock on a Friday morning to tell me that at one
o'clock that afternoon you were going to leave the
office, go downstairs, hail a cab to go to the airport,
and fly to Europe to go skiing in the Alps for two
weeks; not that I wanted to go, I couldn't get away
from the office, I'm not that good of a skiier and I
couldn't expect you to pay my way but after going
out with you for three years, I *don't* *like* *surprises*!"

[Just try to type that in one breath!]

It's subtitled "A Musical Apology"; it's one of my favorite
funny songs. The first few lines:

I didn't mean it when I said, "I hope the cable ...
in the elevator ... snaps -- when you get on board."
And I was joking when I said, "I hope you crack your head,
and get mangled by the downstairs revolving door."
And I was kidding when I said, "I hope the number 103 bus
hits and makes a pancake out of you."
...

Followups to rec.music.folk ...
--
Doug Landauer -- landauer@eng.sun.com
SMI[STE]->SunPro::Languages.PE(C++);

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BTW, the winner appears to have been either the Christine Lavin
song mentioned above, or a Camper Van Beethoven song (from _The
Third Album plus Vampire Can Mating Oven_):

Camper Van Beethoven's _The Third Album plus Vampire Can Mating Oven_ CD
a wierd instrumental called _Processional_, which in the liner notes is mentioned as having originally been entitled, "Why don't you challenge
the boundaries of rock music by playing harsh furious dissonant guitar 2noise music with lyrics exclusively about death and sex and pretend
like you are making some kind of original statement about the relation between the two and therefore expressing the pain and confusion of
modern society, and then become a rock critic and write about your own
band under a different name but not before you move to New York or LA or Chicago or some sufficiently urban area and live in a bad part of town while still receiving checks from your parents who were probably
liberals and didn't let you watch enough violence on TV and so you never got it out of your system, and then go to law school like everyone
else".

ObFolk:

"several furry animals gathered together in a cave and grooving
with a pict", (speaking of celts) by some obscure cambridge
arthouse band of the 60s

The Austin Lounge Lizards introduced their live show here in Santa Cruz
last year with the "Brain Damage" (?) song, from Dark Side of the Moon -- done in true bluegrass style, by saying "Here's a song we learned from the Slow Floyd Brothers."

Oops, that's bluegrass; I guess some readers don't want that in
r.m.f either.

ObFolk:
Our madrigal group lost one of our altos. Any r.m.f readers out
there who work at Sun Mountain View and wanna sing alto on Tuesdays?

Oops, that's early music -- pre-folk. Don't send the net police !!!

Oh no!! The Police!! That's Rock music!! (Or have they already
graduated to "Classic Rock"?) AAUAUUYYYUUUGHGHGHGGGGGHHHHHH!!!

ObGrammarFlame:
Camper Van B. or the poster forgot the question mark.
Don't you just hate it when they ask a rhetorical question
and forget to put in the question mark.
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What? Sign this? Again?

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By my memory - - I had a Friend in high school who had the Pink Floyd album that was EITHER titled- or had a song with the title of: "The Sound Of Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict", some
referring to it as either the Album or song simply reffered to as "ANIMALS", for that reason. (Thank you ALL for helping me with that title, either way.) That was back in 1987 though, when I graduated, so my memory could be quite furry as well (wink,
wink/nudge, nudge), FUZZY!

Further back - - my Sister & I wanted to memorize what was in the '77 Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest medical term. This beast was thankfully named from someone else as "Black Lung":

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis

What was really tough for her & I both, was trying to pronounce it based on the pronunciation we saw in a medical journal. So we broke it down like this:

"Pneumo-no-ultra-micro-scopic-silico-volcano-coniosis"

Cheers from Aurora, Colorado (U.S.A.) & Happy Holidays to everyone!
-Lone Wolf

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