"Down Home Town"

Backdated, archival post

[link to original on tumblr]

---&---

I recently learned about the song "Dixie," which had been lurking on my periphery for a while (by which I mean I was sort of aware of it, but it was only recently that I actually lookt into it), and I instantly remembered Electric Light Orchestra's "Down Home Town."  I just confirmed that it quotes "Dixie," lyrically and musically.

At about 2:42 in the backing vocals, there's the line "Wish I was in the land of Dixie," and then the trumpets play almost all of the tune "Dixie," near the end of which some more lyrics (the overlapping "Look away"s) from "Dixie" appear.  At about 3:30, those backing vocal parts ("Wish I was in the land of Dixie" and the overlapping "Look away"s) appear a second time.