I remembered a joke about the customer who asked for the 'Kodaly Buttocks Pressing Song' from my father years ago, so I googled for this and found (among others) this site that has several other examples and classifies the genre as 'Mondegreens' <http:// witf.blogspot.com/2005/03/lady-mondegreen-buttocks-pressing- song_15.html>
Eric Crouch On 22 May 2006, at 18:08, Stewart McCoy wrote: > This afternoon I was sent this little bit of nonsense, which I pass > on, with the hope that some might find it amusing. > > Stewart McCoy. > > -o-O-o- > > The following appeared in "Early Music Review" for November 2003. > > "Years ago, in what seems another life, I worked in record shops. > Customers would come in bearing scraps of paper upon which they'd > scribbled notes about the music which they had heard on Radio 3 and > wanted a recording thereof. Many were wonderful misprints and > howlers, and I started to write them down. These are all totally > genuine requests - I've not embellished or improved them! Here are > some samples: > > Acker Bilk's Canon > > Al Bowlly's Adagio > > Mendelssohn's Wedding Mask > > Sibelius's Tapioca > (and Potholer's Daughter) > > Chopin's Military Bolognese > > The Bog Roll from the Tales of Hoffmann > > Bach's Kestrel Sweets > > Cream of Gerontius > > Cavalier Rusty Meccano > > I particularly liked a Monteverdi one - a request from an old lady > who wanted to mug up on an opera she was going to see at > Glyndebourne in 1984. She really did call it > > Constipation of Popeye. > > > > > > To get on or off this list see list information at > http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
