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Greatest Endings In Rock and Roll
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Frankie Valli, "Grease," ended in a similar manner: "Grease is the word, is the word, is the word, is the word...," etc.mook said:
mook said:
Technically then it's been playing for over 30 years.
I've thought that about "Hey Jude" a time or two! (Only it's 40 years for "Hey Jude"!)radioman148 said:Technically then it's been playing for over 30 years.
firepoint525 said:I've thought that about "Hey Jude" a time or two! (Only it's 40 years for "Hey Jude"!)radioman148 said:Technically then it's been playing for over 30 years.
You're right "Hey Jude" never ends.
You should pick up Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs. In it, he claims that some hippies somewhere are still singing that "na na na na" chorus!radioman148 said:You're right "Hey Jude" never ends.firepoint525 said:I've thought that about "Hey Jude" a time or two! (Only it's 40 years for "Hey Jude"!)radioman148 said:Technically then it's been playing for over 30 years.
Also check out "Hey Jude" karaoke on youtube sometime. When it gets to the "na na na na" chorus, it reads, "repeat 16 times" or something like that!
firepoint525 said:You should pick up Dave Barry's Book of Bad Songs. In it, he claims that some hippies somewhere are still singing that "na na na na" chorus!radioman148 said:You're right "Hey Jude" never ends.firepoint525 said:I've thought that about "Hey Jude" a time or two! (Only it's 40 years for "Hey Jude"!)radioman148 said:Technically then it's been playing for over 30 years.
I'm sure they are..LOL
firepoint525 said:
I think the Police song "Message in a Bottle" ends with Sting crooning "sending out an S.O.S." about 25+ times in the fadeout
Eye of the Tiger--Survivor
A couple of endings that I don't like, but for different reasons:
Teena Marie, "Lovergirl." It begins fading on the rap near the end, so we usually don't get to hear all of it whenever it plays on the radio! Fade should have started after the rap was over.
Wings, "Listen to What the Man Said." Great uptempo song, but sort of runs out of steam at the end! I know it segues into the next song on the album, but it would have been better if "Listen" had stayed uptempo all the way through.
Teena Marie, "Lovergirl." It begins fading on the rap near the end, so we usually don't get to hear all of it whenever it plays on the radio! Fade should have started after the rap was over.
Wings, "Listen to What the Man Said." Great uptempo song, but sort of runs out of steam at the end! I know it segues into the next song on the album, but it would have been better if "Listen" had stayed uptempo all the way through.
And Three Dog Night, not far behind, with....SuperRadioFan said:
"Celebrate, celebrate, dance to the music!"
Anyone ever counted how many times that one repeats?
>>Teena Marie, "Lovergirl." It begins fading on the rap near the end, so we usually don't get to hear all of it whenever it plays on the radio! Fade should have started after the rap was over.>>
Still a very good record.
Still a very good record.
On the subject of repeats:
Many records end with the chorus repeating into oblivion (they sort of run out of things to say, so they keep repeating the chorus 'til it fades out), but I would like to point out some notable offenders:
Bruce Springsteen, "I'm Going Down." I once heard a dj say that Bruce says "down" 84 times in that one! (Again, difficult to say because it fades out at the end.)
Kool & the Gang, "Fresh." Obviously, a group that went on a binge of one-word titles for their singles after the success of "Celebration, but they were never quite able to capture "lightning in a bottle" again the way that they had done with "Celebration." I listened to "Fresh" while it was a hit, and I believe I counted well over 50 "freshes" in that one! But it's been a while since I've heard it, so it's no longer "fresh" to me.
But I believe the champ when it comes to repetitiveness would have to be Rocky Burnett's "Tired of Toein' the Line." This one even starts out with the chorus! Isn't that a little like eating dessert first? You know that when you must "pad" a song for length by opening with a chorus (a repeating one at that!), that you might want to consider writing another verse for it. I believe the song goes chorus, verse, chorus, solo, chorus to fade, with repeats on each of those choruses. I like the song, and I have the 45 of it, but it's one that I can only take in limited doses because of all the repetition on it!
Many records end with the chorus repeating into oblivion (they sort of run out of things to say, so they keep repeating the chorus 'til it fades out), but I would like to point out some notable offenders:
Bruce Springsteen, "I'm Going Down." I once heard a dj say that Bruce says "down" 84 times in that one! (Again, difficult to say because it fades out at the end.)
Kool & the Gang, "Fresh." Obviously, a group that went on a binge of one-word titles for their singles after the success of "Celebration, but they were never quite able to capture "lightning in a bottle" again the way that they had done with "Celebration." I listened to "Fresh" while it was a hit, and I believe I counted well over 50 "freshes" in that one! But it's been a while since I've heard it, so it's no longer "fresh" to me.
But I believe the champ when it comes to repetitiveness would have to be Rocky Burnett's "Tired of Toein' the Line." This one even starts out with the chorus! Isn't that a little like eating dessert first? You know that when you must "pad" a song for length by opening with a chorus (a repeating one at that!), that you might want to consider writing another verse for it. I believe the song goes chorus, verse, chorus, solo, chorus to fade, with repeats on each of those choruses. I like the song, and I have the 45 of it, but it's one that I can only take in limited doses because of all the repetition on it!
Silkie said:
Getting away from fade outs, but staying with repetitiveness somebody told me that Bill Withers says "I know"
30+ times in the middle of "Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone".
Of course sometimes when Dan Ingram played it he'd let Bill say it for about 3 minutes on a loop.
As I understood it, Bill Withers recorded "Ain't No Sunshine" with "dummy lyrics." The "I know"s were to have been replaced with actual lyrics once the song was (re)written, but the producer or someone liked it just the way it was, and decided to release it "as is." And now you know.radioman148 said:
Wonder how that would stack up against "Nobody But Me," by the Human Beinz?Silkie said:
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