Shave and a Haircut, the Glossary

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1. 104 relations: "Weird Al" Yankovic, Amateur radio, Andor (TV series), Animaniacs, Animation, Aria, Banjo, Banjo roll, Barney & Friends, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, Billy Jones (singer, born 1889), Billy Murray (singer), Bit (money), Black Forest Bluegrass, Blanes, Bluegrass music, Bo Diddley beat, Bridge (music), Cadence, Call and response (music), Capitol Records, Carlos Balá, Cartoon, Cassian Andor, Catalan language, Cent (currency), Charles Scribner's Sons, Coda (music), Contact (amateur radio), Couplet, Crazy Gang (comedy group), Dave Bartholomew, Dave Brubeck, DDT, Denglisch, Disc jockey, Door knocker, Doug Hegdahl, Earl Scruggs, Ernie Hare, Everything About You (Ugly Kid Joe song), Extreme (band), Extreme (Extreme album), Fanfare, FLIT, Frank Sinatra, Franz Liszt, G major, G run, Glossary of music terminology, ... Expand index (54 more) »

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"Weird Al" Yankovic

Alfred Matthew "Weird Al" Yankovic (born October 23, 1959) is an American comedy musician, writer, and actor.

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Amateur radio

Amateur radio, also known as ham radio, is the use of the radio frequency spectrum for purposes of non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, radiosport, contesting, and emergency communications.

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Andor (TV series)

Andor, also known as Star Wars: Andor, is an American science fiction television series created by Tony Gilroy for the streaming service Disney+.

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Animaniacs

Animaniacs is an American animated comedy musical television series created by Tom Ruegger for Fox's Fox Kids block in 1993, before moving to The WB in 1995, as part of its Kids' WB afternoon programming block, until the series ended on November 14, 1998.

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Animation

Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.

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Aria

In music, an aria (arie,; arias in common usage; diminutive form: arietta,;: ariette; in English simply air) is a self-contained piece for one voice, with or without instrumental or orchestral accompaniment, normally part of a larger work.

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Banjo

The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator.

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Banjo roll

In bluegrass music, a banjo roll or roll is a pattern played by the banjo that uses a repeating eighth-note arpeggio – a broken chord – that by subdividing the beat 'keeps time'.

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Barney & Friends

Barney & Friends is an American children's television series targeted at children aged two to five, created by Sheryl Leach.

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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is a 1989 American science fiction comedy film directed by Stephen Herek and written by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon.

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Billy Jones (singer, born 1889)

William Reese Jones (March 15, 1889 – November 23, 1940) was a tenor who recorded during the 1920s and 1930s, finding fame as a radio star on The Happiness Boys radio program.

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Billy Murray (singer)

William Thomas Murray (May 25, 1877 – August 17, 1954) was one of the most popular singers in the United States in the early 20th century.

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Bit (money)

The word bit is a colloquial expression referring to specific coins in various coinages throughout the world.

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Black Forest Bluegrass

Black Forest Bluegrass is a recording of the music of Peter Schickele under his comic pseudonym of P. D. Q. Bach, featuring the composer and "a bluegrass band with a Baroque orchestra, a wind octet with toys, a commercial with a snake — this album has it all!" The album was released on Vanguard Records in 1979.

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Blanes

Blanes is a town and municipality in the comarca of Selva in Girona, Catalonia, Spain.

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Bluegrass music

Bluegrass music is a genre of American roots music that developed in the 1940s in the Appalachian region of the United States.

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Bo Diddley beat

The Bo Diddley beat is a syncopated musical rhythm that is widely used in rock and roll and pop music. Shave and a Haircut and bo Diddley beat are rhythm and meter.

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Bridge (music)

In music, especially Western popular music, a bridge is a contrasting section that prepares for the return of the original material section.

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Cadence

In Western musical theory, a cadence is the end of a phrase in which the melody or harmony creates a sense of full or partial resolution, especially in music of the 16th century onwards.Don Michael Randel (1999). The Harvard Concise Dictionary of Music and Musicians, pp. 105-106.. A harmonic cadence is a progression of two or more chords that concludes a phrase, section, or piece of music.

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Call and response (music)

In music, call and response is a compositional technique, often a succession of two distinct phrases that works like a conversation in music.

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Capitol Records

Capitol Records, LLC (known legally as Capitol Records, Inc. until 2007), and simply known as Capitol, is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group through its Capitol Music Group imprint.

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Carlos Balá

Carlos Salim Balaa Boglich (13 August 1925 – 22 September 2022), known as Carlitos Balá, was an Argentine actor who specialized in children's entertainment.

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Cartoon

A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style.

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Cassian Andor

Cassian Jeron Andor, born Kassa, is a fictional character in the Star Wars franchise, primarily portrayed by actor Diego Luna.

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Catalan language

Catalan (or; autonym: català), known in the Valencian Community and Carche as Valencian (autonym: valencià), is a Western Romance language.

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Cent (currency)

The cent is a monetary unit of many national currencies that equals of the basic monetary unit.

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Charles Scribner's Sons

Charles Scribner's Sons, or simply Scribner's or Scribner, is an American publisher based in New York City, known for publishing American authors including Henry James, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Kurt Vonnegut, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Stephen King, Robert A. Heinlein, Thomas Wolfe, George Santayana, John Clellon Holmes, Don DeLillo, and Edith Wharton.

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Coda (music)

In music, a coda (tail; plural code) is a passage that brings a piece (or a movement) to an end.

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An amateur radio contact, more commonly referred to as simply a "contact", is an exchange of information between two amateur radio stations.

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Couplet

In poetry, a couplet or distich is a pair of successive lines that rhyme and have the same metre.

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Crazy Gang (comedy group)

The Crazy Gang were a group of British entertainers, formed in the early 1930s.

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Dave Bartholomew

David Louis Bartholomew (December 24, 1918 – June 23, 2019) was an American musician, bandleader, composer, arranger, and record producer.

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Dave Brubeck

David Warren Brubeck (December 6, 1920 – December 5, 2012) was an American jazz pianist and composer.

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DDT

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, commonly known as DDT, is a colorless, tasteless, and almost odorless crystalline chemical compound, an organochloride.

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Denglisch

Denglisch is a term describing the increased use of anglicisms and pseudo-anglicisms in the German language.

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Disc jockey

A disc jockey, more commonly abbreviated as DJ, is a person who plays recorded music for an audience.

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Door knocker

A door knocker is an item of door furniture that allows people outside a house or other dwelling or building to alert those inside to their presence.

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Doug Hegdahl

Douglas Brent Hegdahl (born September 3, 1946) is a former United States Navy petty officer second class (E-5) who was held as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War.

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Earl Scruggs

Earl Eugene Scruggs (January 6, 1924 – March 28, 2012) was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music.

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Ernie Hare

Thomas Ernest Hare (March 16, 1883 – March 9, 1939) was an American singer who recorded prolifically during the 1920s and 1930s, finding fame as a radio star on the Happiness Boys radio program.

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Everything About You (Ugly Kid Joe song)

"Everything About You" is the debut single of American heavy metal band Ugly Kid Joe, originally from their 1991 EP, As Ugly as They Wanna Be.

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Extreme (band)

Extreme is an American rock band formed in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1985, that reached the height of their popularity in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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Extreme (Extreme album)

Extreme is the first studio album by the American glam metal band Extreme, released in 1989 by A&M Records.

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Fanfare

A fanfare (or fanfarade or flourish) is a short musical flourish which is typically played by trumpets (including fanfare trumpets), French horns or other brass instruments, often accompanied by percussion.

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FLIT

FLIT is the brand name for an insecticide.

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Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert Sinatra (December 12, 1915 – May 14, 1998) was an American singer and actor.

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Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.

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G major

G major (or the key of G) is a major scale based on G, with the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, and sharp.

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G run

In bluegrass and other music, the G run (G-run), or Flatt run (presumably after Lester Flatt), is a stereotypical ending used as a basis for improvisation on the guitar. Shave and a Haircut and g run are riffs.

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Glossary of music terminology

A variety of musical terms are encountered in printed scores, music reviews, and program notes.

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IMDb

IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.

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Irish pub

In Ireland, a "pub" is an establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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Italy

Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.

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Joel Sayre

Joel Grover Sayre, Jr (December 13, 1900 – September 9, 1979) was an American novelist, war reporter, and screenwriter born in Marion, Indiana.

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Johnny's Theme

"Johnny's Theme" is an instrumental jazz song played as the opening theme of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from the show's inception in 1962 through its finale in 1992.

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Judge Doom

Judge Doom (formerly known as Baron von Rotten) is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1988 film Who Framed Roger Rabbit, portrayed by Christopher Lloyd.

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Kendrick Lamar

Kendrick Lamar Duckworth (born June 17, 1987) is an American rapper and songwriter.

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Lakrisal

Lakrisal is a Malaco brand of salty liquorice (liquorice and ammonium chloride flavored candy) sold in the Nordic countries and the Netherlands.

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Leonard Bernstein

Leonard Bernstein (born Louis Bernstein; August 25, 1918 – October 14, 1990) was an American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian.

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Les Paul

Lester William Polsfuss (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009), known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor.

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Life (magazine)

Life is an American magazine published weekly from 1883 to 1972, as an intermittent "special" until 1978, a monthly from 1978 until 2000, and an online supplement since 2008.

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List of "Weird Al" Yankovic polka medleys

Polka-style medleys of cover songs are a distinguishing part of American musician, satirist, parodist, and songwriter "Weird Al" Yankovic's catalog.

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Looney Tunes

Looney Tunes is an American animated franchise produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It began as a series of short films that originally ran from 1930 to 1969, along with its partner series Merrie Melodies, during the golden age of American animation.

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Los Angeles Times

The Los Angeles Times is a regional American daily newspaper that began publishing in Los Angeles, California in 1881.

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Love and Marriage

"Love and Marriage" is a 1955 song with lyrics by Sammy Cahn and music by Jimmy Van Heusen.

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Mary Ford

Mary Ford (born Iris Colleen Summers; July 7, 1924 – September 30, 1977) was an American guitarist and vocalist, comprising half of the husband-and-wife musical team Les Paul and Mary Ford.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Mike Wallace

Myron Leon Wallace (May 9, 1918 – April 7, 2012) was an American journalist, game show host, actor, and media personality.

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Milton Berle

Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger;; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American actor and comedian.

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Minstrel show

The minstrel show, also called minstrelsy, was an American form of theater developed in the early 19th century.

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Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol is a 1962 animated musical holiday television special produced by UPA.

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Morse code

Morse code is a telecommunications method which encodes text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations, called dots and dashes, or dits and dahs.

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My Ding-a-Ling

"My Ding-a-Ling" is a novelty song written and recorded by Dave Bartholomew.

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Nardwuar

Nardwuar the Human Serviette (born John Ruskin, July 5, 1968), or simply Nardwuar, is a Canadian celebrity journalist and musician.

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Nokia

Nokia Corporation (natively Nokia Oyj in Finnish and Nokia Abp in Swedish, referred to as Nokia) is a Finnish multinational telecommunications, information technology, and consumer electronics corporation, originally established as a pulp mill in 1865.

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Nokia 3310

The Nokia 3310 is a discontinued GSM mobile phone announced on 1 September 2000, and released in the fourth quarter of the year, replacing the popular Nokia 3210.

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Not Like Us

"Not Like Us" is a diss track written and recorded by American rapper Kendrick Lamar.

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O-Kay for Sound

O-Kay for Sound is a 1937 British comedy film directed by Marcel Varnel and starring the Crazy Gang troupe of comedians.

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Ogg

Ogg is a free, open container format maintained by the Xiph.Org Foundation.

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On the 5:15

"On the 5:15" is a song written in 1914 by Henry I. Marshall and recorded in 1915 by Billy Murray, along with the American Quartet, which featured a bass counterpoint to Murray's Irish tenor voice (probably by William F. Hooley).

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Oriental riff

The Oriental riff, also known as the East Asian riff and the Chinaman lick, is a musical riff or phrase that has often been used in Western culture as a trope to represent the idea of East or Southeast Asia. Shave and a Haircut and Oriental riff are riffs.

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P. D. Q. Bach

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Phrase (music)

In music theory, a phrase (φράση) is a unit of musical meter that has a complete musical sense of its own, built from figures, motifs, and cells, and combining to form melodies, periods and larger sections. Shave and a Haircut and phrase (music) are rhythm and meter.

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Prisoner of war

A prisoner of war (POW) is a person who is held captive by a belligerent power during or immediately after an armed conflict.

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Quarter (United States coin)

The quarter, formally known as the quarter dollar, is a denomination of currency in the United States valued at 25 cents, representing one-quarter of a dollar.

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Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African-American communities in the 1940s.

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Riff

A riff is a short, repeated motif or figure in the melody or accompaniment of a musical composition.

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Sant Boi de Llobregat

Sant Boi de Llobregat is a city in the Province of Barcelona in Catalonia, Spain, located on the banks of the Llobregat river.

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Shibboleth

A shibboleth (šībbōleṯ) is any custom or tradition, usually a choice of phrasing or even a single word, that distinguishes one group of people from another.

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Shilling

The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British Commonwealth countries and Ireland, where they were generally equivalent to 12 pence or one-twentieth of a pound before being phased out during the 1960s and 1970s.

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Tap code

The tap code, sometimes called the knock code, is a way to encode text messages on a letter-by-letter basis in a very simple way.

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The Beverly Hillbillies

The Beverly Hillbillies is an American television sitcom that was broadcast on CBS from 1962 to 1971.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard

The Short-Tempered Clavier and other dysfunctional works for keyboard was released in 1995 by Telarc Records.

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The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson

The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is an American late-night talk show hosted by Johnny Carson on NBC, the third iteration of the ''Tonight Show'' franchise.

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Turkey in the Straw

"Turkey in the Straw" is an American folk song that first gained popularity in the 19th century.

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Ugly Kid Joe

Ugly Kid Joe is an American hard rock band from Isla Vista, California, formed in 1989.

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Unsquare Dance

"Unsquare Dance" is a composition by jazz pianist Dave Brubeck that was released as a single in 1961.

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Vehicle horn

A vehicle horn is a sound-making device installed on motor vehicles, trains, boats, and other types of vehicles.

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Victor Borge

Børge Rosenbaum (3 January 1909 – 23 December 2000), known professionally as Victor Borge, was a Danish and American actor, comedian and pianist who achieved great popularity in radio and television in both North America and Europe.

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West Side Story

West Side Story is a musical conceived by Jerome Robbins with music by Leonard Bernstein, lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and a book by Arthur Laurents.

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis from a screenplay written by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman.

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World War II

World War II or the Second World War (1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945) was a global conflict between two alliances: the Allies and the Axis powers.

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YouTube

YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.

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See also

Riffs

• Arabian riff
• Fill (music)
• G run
• Groove (drumming)
• Mysterioso Pizzicato
• Oriental riff
• Ostinato
• Shave and a Haircut
• Tarantella Napoletana

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shave_and_a_Haircut

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