Talk:The Devil Has All the Best Tunes
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Where now is the more general meaning?[edit]
I wanted to know who said this originally, and when I searched, this came up:
[Search domain en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_has_all_the_Best_Tunes] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Devil_has_all_the_Best_Tunes
'The Devil has all the best tunes' is an expression referring to secular music. The first known use of the phrase in print is in the December 1773 edition of the Monthly Review : "They (the Moravians and Methodists ) have adopted the music of some of our finest songs... ...and they have given good reasons for so doing: for, as Whitefield said, 'Why should the devil have all the best tunes?'". But when I click on it, I'm directed here. Shouldn't this be called "The Devil Has All the Best Tunes (song)" and be disambiguated from the saying? And where can I find that text and more now? --Hugh7 (talk) 08:57, 12 April 2021 (UTC)
Hi Hugh, I created this page. I saw that there isn’t a page for the phrase itself, but I thought it may not be worth my while to make one because it is quite an obscure phrase today and some trigger-happy editor might consider it not notable enough. Humbledaisy (talk)|