I decided to Google "onthesannyside". I found, besides references to my blog, this delightful -- and I believe, the original -- short rendition of "On the Sunny Side of the Street", by Peggy Lee and the Benny Goodman Orchestra. Google may have mixed up "sannyside" and "sunny side" but I'm glad for it. Enjoy...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmKZQHCx8Ys
Que Sera, Sera
I have also been collecting headlines and ads that use song titles. Just today (28 April), there were two from ST's sports pages. This first one tells soccer fan readers that the outcome of next week's Manchester United-Manchester City cliff-hanger match is best left to the song made famous by Doris Day, "Que Sera, Sera" -- or, What Will Be, Will Be...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc
You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
In today's ST too is this other soccer story, about Barcelona's colourful coach Pep Guardiola all set to quit his job with the club at the end of the season. The headline below is clearly inspired by the classic Elvis Presley song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7R5xxDy3QU
I'll Never Find Another You
This is a very appealing Seekers song. The two ads below from Great Eastern the insurance company very cleverly insinuated themselves with the song...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga9Bs4fzSY
Da Doo Ron Ron
Geri spotted this one. ST ran a package of stories on the joy of running, and the cover page headline? "They Do Run, Run, Run", a very very slick word play on the 1960s pop hit by the Crystals...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rfbz7z6wDQ
Hopelessly Devoted to You
Finally, when Olivia Newton John was back here recently to do a concert, the headline writer could not resist this...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbFwQYnQGlQ
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