Talk:Barbara Ann

McCain
Someone please mention how John McCain sung "Barbara Ann" by using the words "Bomb Iran" instead. -Amit, 04/20/07

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Parodies
The parody section in particular seems to be promoting you-tube, and similar type, unverifiable sources. Something just does not seems right with sourcing. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.120.47.16 (talk • contribs) 07:35, 13 May 2010

Just because something has happened doesn't mean it should be included. Unless someone gives me a reason why this section is important enough to stay in this article, I'm going to delete it again. All the information in it would be better served by being in other articles, Vince Valiant, John McCain, Adam Kontras, etc. Santa Claus of the Future (talk) 12:25, 13 May 2010 (UTC)


 * It just gets worse I'm afraid, I do not see the relevance at all to a parody section. I mean today, I saw a homemade video clip of some dude singing a parody of some 90's song about Aunt Jemima pancake syrup, I saw exactly10seconds of that drivel... Point being, the whole parody thing is ridiculous and destroys the art, and work that is that of the actual artists who originally made the music to begin with.71.63.111.177 (talk) 02:26, 14 May 2010 (UTC)
 * That was supposed to actually be a comment about the new religious parody thing that was posted,,, that is not only dumb, but scary!!! and not notable in the least or sourced to a proper source, as all the rest of them. If it is not a significant news item, then it may as well not have happened as far as wiki standards are concerned. A mention is not notability. The McCain thing is probably notable to someone, it was discussed for a few days in '08, and then that may lend to the notability of the one that was spawned of the '08 campaign season. If the parody was the Subject of a news story then it is notable, a mention in a news story is not. I would actually edit this myself, but looks to be some kind of self interest going on in a revert war.71.63.111.177 (talk) 02:36, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

The Kontras reference was obviously a fluff piece, Looked up Atom videos for the referenced 'parody' and found that Atom is a site much like you tube, where anyone may upload videos, if they like it they call you a pro and pay royalties,,, approx. $8 for every 1000 views, the amateur video in question had less than 200,000 views, since May 2006 when it was posted, hardly viral, and it did not even rank in the top 250 videos on that site. Poorly referenced, and not notable. Obscure foreign references do not help either.71.63.111.177 (talk) 06:35, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

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The ashtray...?
Halfway through the song, somebody (Carl Wilson?) says "Hal, and his famous ashtray!", followed by the sound of an ashtray being hit. I have a feeling that "Hal" may actually be "Al", as in Al Jardine. On the "Uncovered and Unplugged" reissue of the album, Al Jardine is credited for 'playing' the ashtray. Ugo1970 (talk) 14:28, 19 July 2017 (UTC)

Barbara Ann Rattray
2001:5B0:41CC:1F38:2D18:F4FF:BF0C:4301 (talk) 03:17, 30 April 2018 (UTC)This song was written about Barbara Ann Rattray, she had dated the writer of the song. If you listen during the background of the song you can hear someone say "her name is Rattray". As it turns out the subject of this song became a horrible human being. Barbara Ann married an abusive man and joined a cultish Baptist church. She had two sons and a daughter who after years of abuse, escaped their parent's cult. With the aid of extended family, they ran away to be raised by Barbara Ann's parents in Florida. After facing an ultimatum to choose between the cult and her family Barbara Ann chose to live her life estranged from her family. This gradually faded after the death of her husband, but Barbara Ann's family was loving and naïve. They welcomed her back with open arms, however her selfish behavior was limitless. There are numerous examples of this, but one that sticks out is the fact that when her younger sister was dying of cancer, on her deathbed with the aid of hospice Barbara Ann Julian (Rattray) went on a week long cruise. Then after her younger sister passed away, Barbara Ann conspired with the help of her other sister to convince her father to change his will in his last days to cut her dead sister's children from his will and to benefit herself. Since then karma has caught up to Barbara Ann by taking her only daughter's life from her and then slowly taking her sight from her.