Talk:Some of These Days

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"The song is hailed as the first true 20th century popular standard, as it sharpened and personalised the sentiments of 19th century music, making a song that sounded modern, updating and starting the cooption of the vernacular and racist 19th century music hall tropes. The songs of the 19th century have not survived in any original forms, as their mechanical reproduction was limited; hence the status of this song as the first standard of the modern era.[2]"

This statement is highly opinionated, obscure, and makes some questionable statements. It certainly isn't encyclopedic and I'm deleting it unless someone makes a better case for keeping it. Saxophobia (talk) 22:25, 16 October 2009 (UTC)

On a point of information
Someone wrote that this song was originally written for "The last of the Red Hot Mommas" (meaning Sophie Tucker). If he had examined the sheet-music cover even briefly, he would have taken note of the fact that there is a quotation from the lyrics running along the top of the page saying "you'll miss your little dad, dad, dad, dad, dad". Clearly then, it was originally written for a man and even if it had not been, there is no evidence that it was written especially for Sophie Tucker. Mike Hayes (talk) 19:33, 1 July 2012 (UTC)