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“Could It Be I'm Falling in Love”

The Spinners | 1972

Vibes, strings, horns, and the Spinners' gossamer vocals swelled together for one of the biggest early-'70s Philadelphia soul hits on "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love," paced by an exuberant chorus reflecting the giddiness of a new love affair. As producer Thom Bell remembered in the liner notes to The Chrome Collection, he rearranged it from the slow ballad he heard on the demo. Phillippé Wynne's vocal at the end, Bell pointed out, "turned it into a whole new song. And he ad-libbed the whole thing once."

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“V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.”

Fishbone | 1985

Quite a few musicians have utilized initials for song titles -- Michael Jackson's "P.Y.T.," Abba's "S.O.S.," Donald Fagen's "I.G.Y.," etc. But the more curiously initialed tune has to be "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F.," short for "Voyage to the Land of the Freeze-Dried Godzilla Farts." Fishbone's original guitarist, Kendall Jones, explained to Rolling Stone, "When Norwood [Fisher] wrote it, he introduced it to the band saying, 'Man, I've been hearing about all these Nazi right-wing groups on the news saying the Holocaust was staged. So what if America said it never dropped two atom bombs on Japan, that it was actually Godzilla popping a couple off?' Only Norwood would come up with something that out." The same year "V.T.T.L.O.T.F.D.G.F." was released, the film Godzilla 1985 appeared in North America.

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