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 famous cover of traditional Mardi Gras Indian song “Iko Iko” by The Dixie Cups was recorded without the band’s knowledge — they were just jamming between takes in a studio, and someone recorded it.

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