I have just discovered that I am truly the purveyor of fake news. I claimed that “My Sharona” by The Knack was replaced by disco. I was completely wrong. I blame my dyslexic memory for dates, and my inability to read and analyze a Billboard Top 100 list of 1979.
Category Archives: Pop Music Daffynition
The Police and a Pop Music Daffynition
“Fuck Tha Police” by N.W.A. has nothing to do with the band, The Police. Not only is it evident in the spelling, the lyrical content supports that it’s actually about police brutality and racial profiling.

P. Diddy and a Pop Music Daffynition
The Native Americans summed it up best: man with many names is man of great influence. Sean John Combs, born in 1969, lacks great influence but has many names so he is half a Native American adage: Puff Daddy, Puffy, P. Diddy, Diddy, Sean Combs, and maybe P. Daddy, Puffy Daddy and P.
Mel Tormé and a Pop Music Daffynition
The Native Americans summed it up best: man with many nicknames is man of great influence. That is definitely the case with Mel Tormé. Maybe not so much on the great influence, but the nicknames are a many: The Velvet Fog, The Velvet Frog, Chestnut Roastin’ Tormé, Mel Tormé, the crooning gourmet, that guy who was on the lame Lucy Show and Night Court, and Cracker Honky.