Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!prls!amdimage!amdcad!decwrl!boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) From: boyajian@akov68.DEC (JERRY BOYAJIAN) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: re: Who is Marlena? [sic] Message-ID: <3683@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 16-Aug-85 08:45:52 EDT Article-I.D.: decwrl.3683 Posted: Fri Aug 16 08:45:52 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 20-Aug-85 01:25:14 EDT Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: Digital Equipment Corp., Palo Alto, CA Lines: 19 > From: drutx!bjc > I would be very interested to know if anyone knows if the 'Marlena' referred > to in Susanne Vega's song 'Marlena on the Wall' is real or ficticious. > 'Marlena' is obviously featured in a painting, but I am very curious if > this is a real person, who was she? Who did the painting? I have no wish to be pedantic, but it's Suzanne, not Susanne, and it's Marlene, not Marlena. I wouldn't bother to mention it except that I've twice seen a video for this song on MTV, and their credit line spells it with a final "a", whereas on my cassette copy, it's spelled with a final "e" everywhere. --- jayembee (Jerry Boyajian, DEC, Acton-Nagog, MA) UUCP: {decvax|ihnp4|allegra|ucbvax|...}!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-akov68!boyajian ARPA: boyajian%akov68.DEC@DECWRL.ARPA