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Move?
I would very strongly support moving this artcle to "On a Slow Boat to China". Does anyone object? I haven't seen any objections. Solomon Douglas (talk) 00:32, 8 June 2021 (UTC)
Just want to point out that "I'd like to get you..." is incorrect. Published lyric is "I'd LOVE to get you"; this is what is copyrighted, and it stands as such in the published Complete Lyrics of Frank Loesser. The "like" lyric is a variation amongst some recording artists, but it is not a correct lyric in Loesser's song, and it is certainly not the title. I would suggest that the parenthetical be removed entirely, since it is not part of the actual title anyways (http://frankloesser.com/work_songs/69). Also, the date was wrong ('48, not '47 -- I fixed that). 68.174.96.131 (talk) 19:41, 19 April 2013 (UTC)
Support, although I'd more strongly support (I'd Like To Get You On A) Slow Boat To China, since non-orchestral song titles typically have all words capitalized, contrary to other title capitalization standards. Bob the Wikipedian20:15, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm basing my opinion solely on my experience as a well-seasoned musician, not on any written law. But in my experience, song titles use a capital for each word, unless they're classical, in which case the first letter, proper nouns, the word "major", and the key of the song are capitalized and the rest are lowercase. If there's actually a rule somewhere, though, follow it. It's really not worth my fussing. Bob the Wikipedian15:50, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm sorry, I misunderstood that you were talking about how Misplaced Pages typically capitalizes song titles. You may be right that the common usage is to be to capitalize everything. However, Misplaced Pages has adopted a standard capitalization which goes for song titles, album titles, and band names. That's how those names should be formatted in articles. Jafeluv (talk) 12:09, 28 April 2009 (UTC)
I still don't get why you would say "I'd like to get you on a slow boat to China" to someone who had been losing at Poker. So that you could milk them some more? Maikel (talk) 10:00, 4 March 2013 (UTC)
