Day One: Who Put the Bomp?
Day Two: Through The Years
Day Three: Under Pressure Baby
Covers
Samples
Mashups
Rip-Offs
Influences
Parody
Day Four: Just Another Story
The five main elements of a short story are:
- Setting - The time and place in which it happens.
- Plot - A series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict.
- Character - A person, or animal, who takes part in the action of a short story or other literary work.
- Conflict - The struggle between two people or things. The main character is usually on one side of the central conflict.
- Theme - The central idea or belief in a short story.
Today we are going to talk about songs that tell a story.
Here are 30 of the most famous short story songs:
7 Years - Lucas Graham
Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean Billy, Don't Be a Hero - Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods Black Velvet - Alannah Myles A Boy Named Sue - Johnny Cash Camouflage - Stan Ridgway Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin Come Dancing - The Kinks Copacabana - Barry Manilow Coward of the County - Kenny Rogers The Dance - Garth Brooks Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band El Paso - Marty Robbins Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles Fun, Fun, Fun - Beach Boys |
Hazard - Richard Marx
Hotel California - The Eagles In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley Jukebox Hero - Foreigner Last Kiss - J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers Leader of the Pack - The Shangri-las Love Story - Taylor Swift One - Metallica One Piece at a Time - Johnny Cash Piano Man - Billy Joel Rain on the Scarecrow - John Cougar Mellencamp Stan - Eminen Thriller - Michael Jackson Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot Young Turks - Rod Stewart |