Song Titles or Lyrics that may be heard differently.....

[rnigma1]

And don't forget, he totally made up the word "pompitous" (The Joker).

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Cecil Adams explains all:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/972/in-steve-millers-the-joker-what-is-the-pompatus-of-love

 

[CTListener]

And don't forget, he totally made up the word "pompitous" (The Joker).

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Cecil Adams explains all:
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/972/in-steve-millers-the-joker-what-is-the-pompatus-of-love

From the article:

Steve Miller must have loved R&B. Another line from "The Joker" goes "I really love your peaches, wanna shake your tree. / Lovey dovey, lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time." A similar line may be found in the Clovers' 1953 hit "Lovey Dovey": "I really love your peaches wanna shake your tree / Lovey dovey, lovey dovey all the time."

Three "lovey dovey"s instead of two means it's not plagiarism, I guess.

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

Some Light My Fire lyrics (Doors) were hard to follow, ie "... Funeral (?)..." Another '60s classic that used to confuse me was The Beatles She Loves You; "...'advice from her to do', apologize to her..." And, of course, remember the intentionally slurred lines of The Kingsmen's copy of Louie, Louie?

Who doesn't? Every grade school and middle school boy was absolutely sure they were singing "Every night at 10, I'd lay her again."

I was a teenager, and that's exactly what I thought I was hearing as well. However, a Louie, Louie option with lyrics on YouTube I viewed last summer showed much more family-friendly verses.

 

[Oldbones]

I think pop, short for soda pop, is a northern thing, but Buffet's line had nothing to do with the beverage and everything to do with the container, i.e., a can for which one did not need a can opener or "church key".

I refer you to the country classic "Pop a top".

And it was "blew out my flip-flop, stepped on a pop top, cut my heel, had to cruise on back home"

I've never heard anyone in New England refer to a carbonated soft drink as "pop", always either soda or (around Boston) "tonic".

Getting back to "Margaritaville", back in the day I never got the line about blowing out his flip-flop. I thought he was working in some CB radio lingo...at the time I'd never heard of those cheapie sandals referred to as flip-flops...everyone I knew called them thong sandals or just thongs. This was pre-skimpy women's underwear.

 

[firepoint525]

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds got a mention on the first page of this thread with "Don't Pull Your Love." I am going to make a mention of their only other major hit, their only #1, "Fallin' In Love." The title lyric sounds like it was sung by Elmer Fudd! "Baby, baby, fawin' in love, I'm fawin' in love again!" Why couldn't they have taken the time to sing that a bit clearer?

At any rate, by the time that that one became a hit, Reynolds had left the group and was replaced by a guy named Dennison, but they did not immediately change the group name. After "Fawin' In Love" was a hit, they later changed their name to Hamilton, Joe Frank & Dennison, but by then, their hit-making days were over. :'( (Never understood why "Joe Frank" (Carollo) went by his first and middle names, rather than his last name, like the others.)

 

[cd637299]

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds got a mention on the first page of this thread with "Don't Pull Your Love." I am going to make a mention of their only other major hit, their only #1, "Fallin' In Love." The title lyric sounds like it was sung by Elmer Fudd! "Baby, baby, fawin' in love, I'm fawin' in love again!" Why couldn't they have taken the time to sing that a bit clearer?

At any rate, by the time that that one became a hit, Reynolds had left the group and was replaced by a guy named Dennison, but they did not immediately change the group name. After "Fawin' In Love" was a hit, they later changed their name to Hamilton, Joe Frank & Dennison, but by then, their hit-making days were over. :'( (Never understood why "Joe Frank" (Carollo) went by his first and middle names, rather than his last name, like the others.)

I even heard a DJ say that....something like "Sounds like they are singing 'fah-win'...fah-win in love..."

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[rnigma1]

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds got a mention on the first page of this thread with "Don't Pull Your Love." I am going to make a mention of their only other major hit, their only #1, "Fallin' In Love." The title lyric sounds like it was sung by Elmer Fudd! "Baby, baby, fawin' in love, I'm fawin' in love again!" Why couldn't they have taken the time to sing that a bit clearer?

At any rate, by the time that that one became a hit, Reynolds had left the group and was replaced by a guy named Dennison, but they did not immediately change the group name. After "Fawin' In Love" was a hit, they later changed their name to Hamilton, Joe Frank & Dennison, but by then, their hit-making days were over. :'( (Never understood why "Joe Frank" (Carollo) went by his first and middle names, rather than his last name, like the others.)

Georgia once had a governor named Joe Frank Harris.
Anyway, in my earlier post I mentioned that the "cry for a hundred years" line in "Don't Pull Your Love" sounded more like "high fo hongry gyaaay" (or "hi ho congregate"). When the song had its first airplay I honestly had no idea what was being sung in that line, until some time later Glen Campbell covered the song and he enunciated it much better; I heard that version when my dad listened to a country station and I was like, "OH! That's what they said!"

 

[firepoint525]

The Beatles, "Get Back," the Phil Spector-produced version that was used in the movie Let It Be, not the single version. At the end, right before the "pass the audition" remarks from John, Paul says what appears to "Gunsmoke!" He was actually saying "thanks, Mo," addressing Ringo's then-wife Maureen, who had just applauded at the end of the song.

 

[CTListener]

Hamilton, Joe Frank & Reynolds got a mention on the first page of this thread with "Don't Pull Your Love." I am going to make a mention of their only other major hit, their only #1, "Fallin' In Love." The title lyric sounds like it was sung by Elmer Fudd! "Baby, baby, fawin' in love, I'm fawin' in love again!" Why couldn't they have taken the time to sing that a bit clearer?

At any rate, by the time that that one became a hit, Reynolds had left the group and was replaced by a guy named Dennison, but they did not immediately change the group name. After "Fawin' In Love" was a hit, they later changed their name to Hamilton, Joe Frank & Dennison, but by then, their hit-making days were over. :'( (Never understood why "Joe Frank" (Carollo) went by his first and middle names, rather than his last name, like the others.)

I even heard a DJ say that....something like "Sounds like they are singing 'fah-win'...fah-win in love..."

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DJs were saying that on Boston radio, too. It certainly was poorly enunciated.

Also mentioned on the first page was Gordon Lightfoot. I used to hear the line in "If You Could Read My Mind" after "Just like a paperback novel" as "The kind that just don't sell" instead of "the kind that drugstores sell."

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

Did a double take the first time I heard Billy Joel's Uptown Girl played on a blow-torch AM station from Lubbock Tx. I was in Carlsbad NM, and It was daytime. Thanks to the exhausting terrestrial air-trip of about 180-miles, I swore I was hearing "Eight Pound Girl...".

 

[Jim4Rock]

The backup vocals on Sister Golden Hair towards the end sounds like they are repeating ..Vinny Barbarino Vinny Barbarino Vinny Barbarino etc etc....

 

[WMC2006]

I've never heard anyone in New England refer to a carbonated soft drink as "pop", always either soda or (around Boston) "tonic".

Getting back to "Margaritaville", back in the day I never got the line about blowing out his flip-flop. I thought he was working in some CB radio lingo...at the time I'd never heard of those cheapie sandals referred to as flip-flops...everyone I knew called them thong sandals or just thongs. This was pre-skimpy women's underwear.

I live in central Mass. I've always said "soda", I've never heard anyone in New England say pop or tonic unless the tonic they are referring to is hair tonic. Other than soda, it's referred to (on restaurant menus anyway) as 'soft drinks'. And I was once told that if you try to order a soda in the south, they'll think you mean baking soda or something so down there it might be pop or tonic.

Meanwhile, when I was a kid, I always thought "I Shot The Sheriff" was "I Shot Sherry". ;D

 

[SolidGold16]

When I was a kid, I always thought "Hang On Sloopy" was "Hang On Snoopy"...especially since "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" was around the same time period. I still think it sounds better that way ;D

What kind of a name is Sloopy, anyway?

 

[jfrancispastirchak]

When I was a kid, I always thought "Hang On Sloopy" was "Hang On Snoopy"...especially since "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" was around the same time period. I still think it sounds better that way ;D

Same here, and for the same reason, the popularity and heavy airplay of the Snoopy/Red Barron songs.

Also, you asked what kind of name is Sloopy? Good question. I wanna know what the hell kind of name is Sister Golden Hair Distress ?

 

[CTListener]

When I was a kid, I always thought "Hang On Sloopy" was "Hang On Snoopy"...especially since "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" was around the same time period. I still think it sounds better that way ;D

Same here, and for the same reason, the popularity and heavy airplay of the Snoopy/Red Barron songs.

Also, you asked what kind of name is Sloopy? Good question. I wanna know what the hell kind of name is Sister Golden Hair Distress ?

Isn't it Sister Golden Hair Surprise, to rhyme with "...see it in my eyes"? Or have I been hearing that one wrong all these years?

 

[cd637299]

When I was a kid, I always thought "Hang On Sloopy" was "Hang On Snoopy"...especially since "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" was around the same time period. I still think it sounds better that way ;D

Same here, and for the same reason, the popularity and heavy airplay of the Snoopy/Red Barron songs.

Also, you asked what kind of name is Sloopy? Good question. I wanna know what the hell kind of name is Sister Golden Hair Distress ?

Isn't it Sister Golden Hair Surprise, to rhyme with "...see it in my eyes"? Or have I been hearing that one wrong all these years?

^ I agree it oughta be "Surprise," although I seem to have read one source saying "Sublime," which sure doesn't rhyme. But that's the band America for ya.

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[CTListener]

When I was a kid, I always thought "Hang On Sloopy" was "Hang On Snoopy"...especially since "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" was around the same time period. I still think it sounds better that way ;D

Same here, and for the same reason, the popularity and heavy airplay of the Snoopy/Red Barron songs.

Also, you asked what kind of name is Sloopy? Good question. I wanna know what the hell kind of name is Sister Golden Hair Distress ?

Isn't it Sister Golden Hair Surprise, to rhyme with "...see it in my eyes"? Or have I been hearing that one wrong all these years?

^ I agree it oughta be "Surprise," although I seem to have read one source saying "Sublime," which sure doesn't rhyme. But that's the band America for ya.

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I was sure for years that another part of that song went "Will you meet me in the middle, will you meet me in the end? / Will you love me just a little, just enough to show you can?" but all the lyrics sites I see now have the rhyme as "air" and "care."

As a kid, I used to buy Hit Parader magazine just to see the latest hit lyrics. I'm pretty sure that mag was either gone by 1975 or no longer printing lyrics.

 

[michael hagerty]

When I was a kid, I always thought "Hang On Sloopy" was "Hang On Snoopy"...especially since "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" was around the same time period. I still think it sounds better that way ;D

Same here, and for the same reason, the popularity and heavy airplay of the Snoopy/Red Barron songs.

Also, you asked what kind of name is Sloopy? Good question. I wanna know what the hell kind of name is Sister Golden Hair Distress ?

Isn't it Sister Golden Hair Surprise, to rhyme with "...see it in my eyes"? Or have I been hearing that one wrong all these years?

^ I agree it oughta be "Surprise," although I seem to have read one source saying "Sublime," which sure doesn't rhyme. But that's the band America for ya.

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It is "surprise".

 

[michael hagerty]

When I was a kid, I always thought "Hang On Sloopy" was "Hang On Snoopy"...especially since "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" was around the same time period. I still think it sounds better that way ;D

Same here, and for the same reason, the popularity and heavy airplay of the Snoopy/Red Barron songs.

Also, you asked what kind of name is Sloopy? Good question. I wanna know what the hell kind of name is Sister Golden Hair Distress ?

Isn't it Sister Golden Hair Surprise, to rhyme with "...see it in my eyes"? Or have I been hearing that one wrong all these years?

^ I agree it oughta be "Surprise," although I seem to have read one source saying "Sublime," which sure doesn't rhyme. But that's the band America for ya.

cd

I was sure for years that another part of that song went "Will you meet me in the middle, will you meet me in the end? / Will you love me just a little, just enough to show you can?" but all the lyrics sites I see now have the rhyme as "air" and "care."

Muddy processing on AM stations and less than hi-fi radios. It's always been "air" and "care".

 

[michael hagerty]

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