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* PopStarComposer: They wrote the songs for the bizarre 1970 film ''Film/ThePhynx'', with Stoller also doing the instrumental score.
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After Music/ElvisPresley made "Hound Dog" famous, they started writing for him, including "Loving You", "Jailhouse Rock", and "King Creole". Along with Elvis, they helped popularize black music in America, with R&B hits that crossed over into the mainstream. Unfortunately, however, the collaboration was largely short lived, as Elvis' manager, Colonel Tom Parker, was ticked off at the fact that the duo had a direct line to Elvis rather than going to him first.

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After Music/ElvisPresley made "Hound Dog" famous, they started writing for him, including "Loving You", "Jailhouse Rock", and "King Creole". Along with Elvis, they helped popularize black music in America, with R&B hits that crossed over into the mainstream. Unfortunately, however, the collaboration was largely short lived, as Elvis' manager, Colonel Tom Parker, UsefulNotes/ColonelTomParker, was ticked off at the fact that the duo had a direct line to Elvis rather than going to him first.
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-->''She wanted to be Betty Grable
But now she sits there at that beer stained table
Dreaming of the things she never got to do

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-->''She wanted to be Betty Grable
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Dreaming of the things she never got to dodo\\
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-->''She wanted to be Betty Grable
But now she sits there at that beer stained table
Dreaming of the things she never got to do
All those dreams that never came true''
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* FallenOnHardTimesJob: "Pearl's a Singer," about a nightclub singer who failed to make the big time.
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* “Along Came Jones”: The Coasters
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* CulturalTranslation: Lee "Scratch" Perry did a 1970 CoverVersion of "Yakety Yak" that changes "You ain't gonna rock 'n' roll no more" to "You ain't gonna {{reggae}} reggae reggae no more."

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* CrazyJealousGuy: The title character in "Smokey Joe's Cafe".

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* CrazyJealousGuy: The title character in "Smokey Joe's Cafe".Cafe", who threatens the narrator with a knife when he suspects him of flirting with his girlfriend.


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* SouthOfTheBorder: "Down in Mexico", which even uses the exact phrase, though it eschews the usual stereotypes and just focuses on a seedy honky-tonk.

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