The colloquial phrase “put a sock in it” to tell someone to stop talking has an origin in old Gramophone players — when they needed to muffle the music, people would stick a sock or something soft in the old horned cone speaker.

The Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ U.S.A.” was nearly a note-for-note copy of Chuck Berry’s “Sweet Little Sixteen”. Chuck reportedly did enjoy the song, and eventually got a songwriting credit for it.

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