Readers recommend: songs that contain talking | Peter Kimpton

Incidental chat, rambling openings, snatched dialogue or spoken asides? Sift out favourite songs containing spiel to help make this week’s list the talk of the town
Sometimes when walking down a city street, or entering a shop, or any public place or even work, I have a strange fantasy vision. It is that during the drab hubbub of chatter, the habitual exchanges of conversation, task, travel or retail, that everything is suddenly elevated into the world of song. That the person working the