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I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire -- The Ink Spots (Original Post) Haggard Celine Nov 2021 OP
Reminds me of playing Fallout 3 years ago DetroitLegalBeagle Nov 2021 #1
I'm not familiar with that. Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #2
yea, its video game DetroitLegalBeagle Nov 2021 #3
My mom played piano TlalocW Nov 2021 #4
That's funny, I was just thinking a little while ago about Haggard Celine Nov 2021 #5

DetroitLegalBeagle

(2,527 posts)
1. Reminds me of playing Fallout 3 years ago
Thu Nov 4, 2021, 07:27 PM
Nov 2021

I should reinstall it on my PC and maybe replay it over the holidays.

Haggard Celine

(17,911 posts)
2. I'm not familiar with that.
Thu Nov 4, 2021, 07:44 PM
Nov 2021

I'm assuming it's a game, lol! I first heard this song when I was a kid, playing my dad's old records. I thought the Ink Spots album was kind of funny, but I liked it too, in a weird way. This song appealed to me more than the others. I guess I thought the idea of setting the world on fire, which I took literally then, was a hell of an idea!

DetroitLegalBeagle

(2,527 posts)
3. yea, its video game
Thu Nov 4, 2021, 07:52 PM
Nov 2021

Came out in 2008 or somewhere around there. That song and a couple other of their songs are heavily featured in it.

TlalocW

(15,675 posts)
4. My mom played piano
Thu Nov 4, 2021, 08:10 PM
Nov 2021

And she had a lot of hardcover Reader's Digest piano music books with standards like this. On the page with the title there was often a cute drawing that went along with it, and I distinctly remember a blonde guy in a 1950s blue sports coat, holding a globe in one hand and blowing out a match in the other for this song.

TlalocW

Haggard Celine

(17,911 posts)
5. That's funny, I was just thinking a little while ago about
Thu Nov 4, 2021, 08:27 PM
Nov 2021

what a piano version of this song would sound like, just the piano without singing or anything else. I'll bet it would be a pretty piece. It would be something nice to hear at a restaurant or an upscale bar with a piano. I'll have to see if I can find some sheet music for it. It would take me a good while to practice it to where it would sound good, but I think I could do it. It wouldn't take as long as it would take me to pick it all out on my own, however.

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