Wednesday, September 8, 2021

"Cuckoo Clock"

I listened to Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A. yester-day and noticed a couple small features.  In the line "I broke the cuckoo's heart" in "Cuckoo Clock," "heart" is sung with a melisma (E# D#), musically giving a sense of being "broke[n]."