tru-LEE mad-LEE deep-LEE-DOO-oo ... the emphasis is all screwed up.
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Song titles people get wrong
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From what song?CTListener said:
jfrancispastirchak said:
"Truly, Madly, Deeply," the song referenced in the previous two posts. Sorry about not quoting, didn't think the reference would be lost on anyone.
Thanks. Should have flipped the page, I guess. My wife keeps a slice of 2 x 4 in the laundry room for slip ups like this one. She calls it her "Duh" stick. It works.CTListener said:
If you didn't know the title of the Barry Manilow hit was "Weekend in New England," you probably wouldn't have guessed New England was in the title at all. He only sings it once, in the line that begins "Time in New England..." I bet a lot of people figured it was called "When Will I Hold You Again" or "When Will Our Eyes Meet."
And even then, I thought that he was saying "time in a winkling," or something like that. Made no sense at all.CTListener said:
Seems like there was a thread about this, too. Unintelligible lyrics similar to this one (although not necessarily this particular example) came up in that thread.CTListener said:
Back in the '70s I got a request for "The Reverand Bluejeans." The song was Forever in Blue Jeans" by Neil Diamond. Then there was that song about an unknown town in Georgia, called "Misa Georgia." The actual song was "My Eyes Adored You" by Frankie Valli. Listen to both of these songs and you will start hearing what the listener thought they heard. Then there was "Sometimes God Burns your Britches." It was actually "Sometimes God burns your bridges." Been a DJ a long time. I could go on and on.
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rnigma said:
True, but it's better than hearing the misheard lyric, "You Filled Out My Census"
Ah but that is for the other thread.cd
cd637299 said:rnigma said:
True, but it's better than hearing the misheard lyric, "You Filled Out My Census"
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Tell me you're kidding...
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jfrancispastirchak said:cd637299 said:rnigma said:
True, but it's better than hearing the misheard lyric, "You Filled Out My Census"
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Tell me you're kidding...
I must have read that somewhere.....that's too good/ludicrous for me to pick out of thin air.
EDIT: Must have been here---
http://www.kissthisguy.com/2657misheard.htm
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Just read your link. Now I can truly say I've seen it all. Now I can die.cd637299 said:I must have read that somewhere.....that's too good/ludicrous for me to pick out of thin air.jfrancispastirchak said:Tell me you're kidding...cd637299 said:True, but it's better than hearing the misheard lyric, "You Filled Out My Census"rnigma said:
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EDIT: Must have been here---
http://www.kissthisguy.com/2657misheard.htm
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jfrancispastirchak said:
Late to the party on this one, but---
Kate Taylor, James' sister, did a remake of the Betty E. tune in 1977, and indeed the title, per Billboard, was "It's in His Kiss." It was a minor MOR hit and made #49 on the Hot 100, and there was no shoop-shoop in it.
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cd637299 said:
I remember it being called "The Shoop Shoop Song" in 1964 when Betty Everett had the hit. In fact, my 45 had that name on the record with "It's In His Kiss" in parenthesis. Even the WLS & WABC surveys had it listed as "The Shoop Shoop Song".
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radioman148 said:
Sorry again for not making myself clear. Betty & Cher definitely had the title "The Shoop Shoop Song," but Kate's title was "It's In His Kiss."
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Wouldn't be the only example of a remake having a different title than the original. "He Don't Love You (Like I Love You)" by Dawn was originally entitled "He Will Break Your Heart" when done by Jerry Butler.
And "Friends and Lovers" by Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson was called "Both to Each Other" when covered for the country chart.
And "Friends and Lovers" by Gloria Loring and Carl Anderson was called "Both to Each Other" when covered for the country chart.
Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and Johnny Rivers recorded "The Tracks of My Tears," but when Linda Ronstadt got hold of it, it became "Tracks of My Tears." I first became aware of this when there was a long separation between the first two recordings and Ronstadt's on the local FM's A to Z special a few years ago.
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CTListener said:
I was taught that you ignore articles (a, an, the) in titles. Whoever did that, and obviously played a long set of songs beginning with "The", was wrong. But I see the same thing on lists on some websites.
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It's possible that they may have intentionally placed some separation between those titles, just to avoid playing three different versions of the same song right there back-to-back.
When our then-classic rock did an A-to-Z, they alphabetized by the first letter of the title, even when it was the first title of a medley in which that first title was not the one that became the hit. This resulted in some confusion when "Eye in the Sky" was played under "S" because "Sirius" was the first title in the medley. I expected to hear Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner" right after Paul McCartney's "Jet," but it was bumped down to the "T"s because it was alphabetized by "Threshold," the first title in that medley.
When our then-classic rock did an A-to-Z, they alphabetized by the first letter of the title, even when it was the first title of a medley in which that first title was not the one that became the hit. This resulted in some confusion when "Eye in the Sky" was played under "S" because "Sirius" was the first title in the medley. I expected to hear Steve Miller's "Jet Airliner" right after Paul McCartney's "Jet," but it was bumped down to the "T"s because it was alphabetized by "Threshold," the first title in that medley.
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