It Was A Dark And Stormy Night
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It Was A Dark And Stormy Night | |
Genre | Experimental |
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Length | 4:05 |
Year | 1991-1993 |
Original poster | Guglielm |
Search started | 2012 |
File:ItWasADarkAndStormyNight.wav |
It Was A Dark And Stormy Night is an unidentified experimental song that was originally posted to the New Wave Outpost forums by user Guglielm in 2012, then was reuploaded to WatZatSong in 2013.
Background[edit | edit source]
On August 23rd, 2012, the song was first posted to the New Wave Outpost forums by user Guglielm as part of a collection of lost songs, but it did not gain much traction.[1]
On July 15th, 2013, the song was first uploaded to WatZatSong by user Guglielm,[2] before being reuploaded on August 14th, 2014.[3] Based on the OP's other found songs, this song was most likely recorded between 1991 and 1993, and recorded from the WFMU New Jersey radio station.[4]
The song's lyrics come from a joke in which one character, often called Antonio, tells another character a story that begins with the same opening line.[5]
Lyrics[edit | edit source]
Presumed Lyrics |
It was a dark and stormy night
And the robbers sat in the cave And the chief of the robbers said to Antonio, Tell us a story And this was the story It was a dark and stormy night And the robbers sat in the cave And the chief of the robbers said to Antonio, Tell us a story And this was the story It was a dark and stormy night And the robbers sat in the cave And the chief of the robbers said to Antonio, Tell us a story And this was the story |
Resources[edit | edit source]
- ↑ https://nwoutpost.com/app/webroot/forum/viewtopic.php?t=32669&p=311777
- ↑ https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/384186.html
- ↑ https://www.watzatsong.com/en/name-that-tune/410076.html
- ↑ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/10029uDyY6T4_XGC6z6Hn6bz9HTHOgYB-9a5hYrbXQps/edit?gid=512131437#gid=512131437
- ↑ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It_was_a_dark_and_stormy_night#Recursive_version