car-crash song

plural car-crash songs

1. alternativeAlternative form of car crash song.

   One week will find Moody playing 10 car-crash songs in a row (a la “Teen Angel”).

   1980 February 10, Marc Zakem, “Marc Zakem on music: Bob Moody is spinning some ‘oldies’ over at WAKY Radio”, in The Courier-Journal, volume 250, number 41, Louisville, Ky., →ISSN, →OCLC, page H 13, column 1

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   There’s a McCartney impersonator singing A Day In The Life over Skype, and karaoke tracks of car-crash songs whose lyrics Schwebel processed through Google Translate into other languages, then back to English, as though looking for secret clues.

   2012 April 28, Kate Wallace, “A day in the life”, in Telegraph-Journal, Saint John, N.B., →ISSN, →OCLC, page S3, column 1

   There’s a bit of chit-chat to set up each themed medley: silly songs (no end of them), boy songs (Everly Brothers classics), girl songs (He’s So Fine), sweet-16 songs (so many), car-crash songs (Teen Angel, Leader of the Pack), and so on.

   2012 July 13, Pat Donnelly, “Theatre review: Hudson musical revue is an audience-pleaser”, in The Gazette, Montreal, Que., →ISSN, →OCLC, page C4, column 5