This is the sixth post in my blog series about the song We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel. I am writing about the significance of each item mentioned in the song. That is, what significance I THINK they have. I am not doing any research or looking anything up, so I could be totally wrong. (And I've been starting to take a little ribbing at just how wrong I have been on some of them. That's OK though, I think I've got today's nailed.)
More information about this blog series can be found in the series' first post.
Roy hn - Hn was the military commander of the South Korean forces battling against Soviet aggression to turn the whole country into a communist state.
Juan Peron - Juan Peron was Evita Peron's husband. Evita was the first femal leader of Chile, makeing Juan the first 'first gentleman' of the country.
Toscanini - Toscanini is a city in Italy. It is mentioned in the song here because the city was the place where Italy's president was assasinated.
dacron - Dacron is the Vietnamese word for 'chemical weapon."
Dien Bien Phu falls - Phu was the freely elected leader of Cambodia who fell to communist backed Khmer Rouge.
"Rock Around the Clock" - This was the first hit song of the rock and roll era. It was sung by Bill Haley and the Comets.
6 comments:
Jaun and Evita say "Don't Cry for me Argentina"...not Chile.
And Jaun was president and she was the first lady.
I'm not going to correct any of your guesses. I just want to let you know that as a history teacher, I find your guesses funny and although many of them are wrong, you write with such confidence that if I didn't know better, I would believe you! So far, your guess at dacron cracks me up the most! Please promise me when you are done that you will look up the answers. I think you will get a kick out of some of your guesses.
I wonder if you'll be willing to take a Mulligan on the first one. The name is "Roy Cohn," not "Roy Hn," so you're in the wrong continent.
Oh, and, Toscanini is a person (conductor again).
I'm with Shelley that Dacron is as entertaining a guess as any on here! If you're going to guess, I'm with you that it's better to do so boldly.
(For a hint on Dacron . . . ask my mom, her occupation would demand knowledge.)
Thanks for all the comments everyone. Rocki, I smacked my forehead when I read the song lyric you posted. I should have had that. I have not seen the Madonna movie. However, I have heard that song lots of times. Putting Chile is especially disappointing because I had no idea Evita's husband's name was Juan and I wasn't totally sure Evita's last name was Peron. So, the whole thing was a bit of guess - a pretty good one in this case. And thanks for the first lady info.
Shelley, I think you hit the point of the series. To people who KNOW about a certain item, my wrong guesses will hopefully be humorous. And I guess for people who don't know, well they can just think I'm really smart I guess because I suppose I know enough about history to make it sound like I know what I'm talking about, even if I don't.
Jamie, Thanks for the lyric error tip. It is tough because I am trying really hard to NOT do any research for the posts. I thought "Roy Hn" looked a little funny, but I hated to try to look it up for fear that I would find out who he was. Hopefully the rest of the lyrics I have will be correct. Maybe I will search for the lyrics again, with "Roy Cohn" in the search string to weed out any that have that error - and perhaps others that are forthcoming.
For "Dacron" the lyrics I had did not have a capital for this word, unlike most others. So, I tried to think of a common noun and thought it maybe sounded a little Asian. Then I tried to think of an Asian common noun that might make sense being in the song, and came up with the chemical weapon guess. With Jamie's clue, I would now say it is something similar to nylon.
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