Kodachrome...Nikon...in musical memory lane

Reminiscing film days in music's memory lane - the lyrics even mentioned a Nikon camera. :)

 

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(Posting this fondly. Delete if considered off topic.)

Edited March 23, 2018 by Mary Doo

I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph

So mama don't take my Kodachrome away.

You got me thinking; there are no Kodachrome moments anymore. Sadly, I do not really feel Sandisk moments feel equally special.

"When I think back

On all the crap I learned in high school

It's a wonder

I can think at all"

 

Called this one "Kodachrome Moment" - SanDisk Moment didn't seem to have quite ring:

"I got a Nikon camera

I love to take a photograph"

 

Or as Ansel would have put it "make an image".

If you took all the girls I knew

When I was single

And brought them all together for one night

I know they'd never match

My sweet imagination

Everything looks worse in black and white

 

Not sure Ansel would agree with the last line;)

ORWO (ORiginal WOlfen) have their own song - here in a clip from East German TV...

LINK

Everything looks worse in black and white

The Internet lyrics misprinted this. - Actually it's "Everything looks better in black and white". So Ansel would be pleased after all. ;)

The Internet lyrics misprinted this. - Actually it's "Everything looks better in black and white". So Ansel would be pleased after all. ;)

 

I don't know if you're joking, but I just listened to "Kodachrome," and it actually is "Everything looks worse in black and white."

 

Hmm... another internet

controversy...

http://bayouline.com/o2.gif

I don't know if you're joking, but I just listened to "Kodachrome," and it actually is "Everything looks worse in black and white."

It appears there are two versions, for better or for worse ;). Anyhow, the link I referred to above (Central Park concert) says "better".

 

This is how Paul addressed this controversy [Wikepedia]:

 

The former album said, "...everything looks worse in black and white," but the latter (the concerts) said, "...everything looks better in black and white." While it might be easy to read into the change in lyrics, Simon said, "I can't remember which way I originally wrote it -- 'better' or 'worse' -- but I always change it....'"

 

Additional trivia: Kodak required the album to note that Kodachrome is a trademark of Kodak and to include the registered trademark symbol (®) after the song's title.. In the late 1990s, Kodak used the song in commercials to sell film.

It appears there are two versions, for better or for worse ;). Anyhow, the link I referred to above (Central Park concert) says "better".

 

This is how Paul addressed this controversy [Wikepedia]:

 

The former album said, "...everything looks worse in black and white," but the latter (the concerts) said, "...everything looks better in black and white." While it might be easy to read into the change in lyrics, Simon said, "I can't remember which way I originally wrote it -- 'better' or 'worse' -- but I always change it....'"

 

Additional trivia: Kodak required the album to note that Kodachrome is a trademark of Kodak and to include the registered trademark symbol (®) after the song's title.. In the late 1990s, Kodak used the song in commercials to sell film.

 

Wow, that's interesting. I never noticed the song performed with "better" in it.

 

Hmm... Simon and Garfunkel

sometimes sang "I am a Rock"

as "I am a Duck"...

http://bayouline.com/o2.gif

Wow, that's interesting. I never noticed the song performed with "better" in it.

Click on the above link (

) and listen to a "better version". ;)

If all the girls I knew in high school

Were laid end-to-end

I wouldn't be surprised

(And I'm sure they would look better in black & white)

If all the girls I knew in high school

Were laid end-to-end

I wouldn't be surprised

(And I'm sure they would look better in black & white)

 

And you'd look off color? :oops:

It's not so much that we miss Kodachrome moments over Sandisk moments, what's changed in my view is that everybody is in to Photography and everybody is a genius at it.

what's changed in my view is that everybody is in to Photography and everybody is a genius at it.

I agree with the first part: "everybody is in to Photography". I think you wrote the second part in jest? Teacher-friends always tell me, "everyone has a little genius at home" - according to the parents, of course. :D