Talk:Candida (song)

"Sing-along", not "sing-a-long"
The article quotes Hoffman's Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound as saying that Candida has "a lilting sing-a-long groove". This should be "sing-along groove". (We're saying that the groove makes the listener want to sing along.) I'm going to fix it. I don't have access to the book, so I can't tell whether the mistake is there. It seems more likely it was introduced in transcription; published books get copy-edited. If it's in the book we should use "(sic)" to note that the mistake isn't Wikipedia's, or (better yet) use square brackets to indicate that the corrected form is a paraphrase. TypoBoy (talk) 22:24, 5 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you, TyoBoy. The mistake is in the source. I have added square brackets as you suggested. Moisejp (talk) 08:03, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * No, the source is correct. It says "sing-along". The mistake was introduced when the quote was transcribed into Wikipedia.
 * It's an understandable mistake, though. The word "along" is broken between two lines of the Encyclopedia of Recorded Sound, and, of course, a hyphen is introduced to show the word break. But that hyphen isn't part of the quote. Earlier in the same paragraph, Hoffman says that Tony Orlando had worked as "a song promoter". There is a line break after the first syllable in the word "promoter". But you wouldn't quote Hoffman as calling Orlando "a song pro-moter".
 * I scanned the page and posted a partial image of the paragraph here on the talk page. That turns out not to be OK on Wikipedia, so the scan is going to be deleted. But the lesson here is that Hoffman did not misspell "sing-along". TypoBoy (talk) 02:17, 15 June 2015 (UTC)