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Songs you "misheard" the first time you heard them

Before radio, I worked in a record store in the mid-1970s. Around Christmas lots of parents showed up with lists of albums their kid wanted. One man rattled off a couple, as I gathered them and then said I need Fred Heflin the Fourth. With some thought I grabbed Led Zeppelin 4 and convinced him that was indeed what he wanted.
 
tbolt909 said:
"Cruel To Be Kind" is a fairly well known saying. "Cool to be kind" makes little sense. It's inexplicable to me that someone could misunderstand that song unless they truly were not really listening...
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It's inexplicable that you don't understand the focus of the thread. If you hear it totally correctly the first time there would be no thread.

If you understood American Phonics (which is very close to "proper music pronunciation"), and you have formal vocal sing training and saw my post #32, you would realize there only one letter difference in the phonetic spellings. BTW: I happened to hear the song the first time in a noisy pizza joint watching MTV.

I have lived over 7 decades in the USA (with the exception of some TDY in the Air Force) and not counting this discussion and this song, I have never heard or seen "cruel to be kind" in print. I just assumed it was just some obscure British saying. I believe Nick is British.


Sorry . I didn't know you had to remember every line from Shakespeare's 32 plays to listen to Rock and Roll.
 
cc333 said:
What song was he talking about?

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This was in response to b-turner's comment about "Sister Christian" The caller was trying to request it but had no idea what the title was, only knew one totally misheard line from the song. That was the song it took me a bit to figure out what he was asking for.
 
Oldbones said:
This was in response to b-turner's comment about "Sister Christian" The caller was trying to request it but had no idea what the title was, only knew one totally misheard line from the song. That was the song it took me a bit to figure out what he was asking for.
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Not exactly the same, but related: Back in 1984, the CHR I was doing afternoons at kept getting requests for "This Gun's For Hire". It wasn't until one of the jocks listened to the air feed instead of potting it down to answer the request line that we realized the callers wanted to hear "Dancing In The Dark" by Bruce Springsteen.
 
K.M. Richards said:
Not exactly the same, but related: Back in 1984, the CHR I was doing afternoons at kept getting requests for "This Gun's For Hire". It wasn't until one of the jocks listened to the air feed instead of potting it down to answer the request line that we realized the callers wanted to hear "Dancing In The Dark" by Bruce Springsteen.
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That's just thinking the wrong phrase in the hook was the title, which is pretty much universal anytime a new song comes out unless the title is obvious. I still see posts on various boards and even stories on news sites that refer to Lee Greenwood's "God Bless the U.S.A" as "Proud To Be An American."
 


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