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Van Lingle Mungo (song)

 * ... that Dave Frishberg's song "Van Lingle Mungo" took its title from a Major League Baseball player (namesake pictured)?
 * Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Sayf ad-Din Inal
 * Comment: ALT1: ... that Dave Frishberg wrote the lyrics to "Van Lingle Mungo" (namesake pictured) while reading a baseball encyclopedia? ALT2: ... that Dave Frishberg's song "Van Lingle Mungo" consists only of the names of Major League Baseball players, including Van Lingle Mungo (pictured)? ALT3: ... that historian Ira Gitler considers "Van Lingle Mungo" (namesake pictured) "one of the best jazz works of the 70s and certainly the best ever done combining jazz and baseball"? ALT4: ... that the Dave Frishberg song "Van Lingle Mungo" (namesake pictured) has been entered in the National Baseball Library within the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum?

Created/expanded by Muboshgu (talk). Self nom at 20:53, 5 September 2012 (UTC)


 * Pictogram voting keep.svg of original hook, ALT1, ALT3, and ALT4. Dates and lengths all good and no indications of close paraphrasing found in parts I could check.  Half the article's sources are behind paywalls so AGF for the portions I could not verify.  Problem with ALT2 is the hook claims only names are used in the song lyrics but the article add the words "and" and "big" to the names. --Allen3 talk 01:12, 14 September 2012 (UTC)
 * Heh, well I guess ALT2 could be rewritten to "consists primarily of" or "consists only of the names... and the words 'and' and 'big'", or something else like that if that would make the best hook. But there's four more good ones there to choose from. Thanks. – Muboshgu (talk) 01:42, 14 September 2012 (UTC)