Meaning of splatter platter | Babel Free

Definitions

A song about death; especially a song of the style popular in the mid-20th century about the tragic death of a teenage lover, typically in a car crash.

Examples

“The YMCA Pool is also opened on Sunday afternoons, so in the wintertime, Osborne, who donates his services, emsees "Splatter Platter Parties."”

“The popularity of the splatter platters proved the American public, despite wanting to appear outwardly normal, had a remarkably wide morbid streak.”

“Another early splatter platter came out later in 1960, the over-done "Tell Laura I Love Her" by Ray Peterson. The narrator dies as a result of participating in a car race, but has sufficient life in him to cry out the song's title several times before expiring.”

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