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Old 09-11-2003, 02:07 PM
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Another Name That Tune Game: ID Artist and Track by Its Spoken Introduction:

OK.

Take one-part Biggirl’s The "who is she and what is she singing?" game,

fold in some of AtomicDog’s A different Name That Tune game,

add a dash of capacitor’s Talking parts of songs

and sprinkle a little of auntie em’s How 'bout a rousing round of Name That Tune by Storyline? for good measure, and there you have it –

A Name That Tune Game that’s a little more difficult to cheat (but not by any means impossible – so please refrain) with Spoken Introductions.

The rules? Simple

Criteria: The song must have a spoken word introduction (music can be playing in the background). Live tracks should be designated as such.

For the ‘Spoken Lyric Clue’ Givers: Include your screen name before the lyric line you post, so that the ‘Spoken Lyric Clue’ Respondents can tie their answer back to your post. If you wish to give a subtle hint, by all means do.

I’ll get the ball rolling with the 1st fifteen that come to mind, if this thread survives & no one else uses them; I got at least another dozen.

I’ll avoid the obscure, the vague and the obvious (ala Meat Loaf’s ‘You Took The Words Right Out Of My Mouth”).


JB1(1997): Another world, another time. This land was green and good until the crystal cracked.
Clue: If the line spawns the idea it’s Filter, you’re warm – but incorrect.

JB2(1994): We're American and damn proud of it! "Frankly I'm getting a little ticked off..." Go to Hell
Clue: I almost picked ‘3 Big Bags’…but who wants to hear about open sexual intercourse on every street corner of America?

JB3(1993): Ladies and Gentlemen, as you know we have something special for you at Birdland this evening
Clue: Did Herbie Hancock get a thank you note or royalties?

JB4(1991): Inter football, France Football. Une emission du service des sports presente par Jaques Vardou
Clue: Neil Young’s from Canada, does he understand the entire into?

JB5(1986): What the hell gives the right to tell me what to do with my life? Especially when you made a mess of every chance you had to success.
Clue: more yelled than spoken. I’ve often wondered if this song was intended to be heard by a certain Dakota resident

JB6(1986): You're too nasty…You're always talking about masturbation and fornication. You're never gonna get on MTV that way
Clue: Perhaps Music Television should be hit with a money shot

JB7(1985): I always talk like I'm wigged out on Quaaludes. I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go
Clue: A bad Marc Goodman impersonation

JB8(1976): You’re boned like a saint, with the consciousness of a snake.
Clue: SDMB Member #5545

JB9(1975): The veal cutlet come down trying to beat the shit out of my cup of coffee. Coffee just wasn’t strong enough to defend itself.
Clue: There’s a rendezvous of strangers around the coffee earn tonight

JB10(1972): In this day and age there's lots of trouble and strife in the world and I got a little message I want everybody to hear. Please don’t fuss and fight and what? Get off the bloody…
Clue: This band chickened out when they were invited to the No-Nukes concert at Madison Square Garden

JB11(1971): Police office giving his evidence, “I was proceeding in a southerly direction my lord, when I heard strange sounds coming from Waldorf Place, me lord…A sort of boogie-woogie music was being played
Clue: This is where Sir Elton both produced and got his surname

JB12(1970): You know when you're born, you first see light of day through a gap in your mother's legs, it's the truth…
Clue: The alternative to making love – An obscure intro to an old 60’s cover.

JB13(1969): This one's got a bit of chicka-chicka in it… (Live)
Clue: This one’s very ‘Easy’ – There is no studio version.

JB14(1969): A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, Got Me?
Clue: The Sleepy Lagoon Murder

JB15(1968): I was falling into the flames and I knew that I was gonna burn. I was gonna burn. Oh God, it’s so hot in here, let me out please!
Clue: Song went #1-UK and #2-US but the into never got airplay. Produced during Townsend’s heroin days


There you have it, ask / or guess away.
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Old 09-11-2003, 02:42 PM
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Re: Another Name That Tune Game: ID Artist and Track by Its Spoken Introduction:

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JB2(1994): We're American and damn proud of it! "Frankly I'm getting a little ticked off..." Go to Hell
Clue: I almost picked ‘3 Big Bags’…but who wants to hear about open sexual intercourse on every street corner of America?

JB3(1993): Ladies and Gentlemen, as you know we have something special for you at Birdland this evening
Clue: Did Herbie Hancock get a thank you note or royalties?

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Dink - Green Mind

Us3 - Cantaloop
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Old 09-11-2003, 02:53 PM
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JB9(1975): The veal cutlet come down trying to beat the shit out of my cup of coffee. Coffee just wasn’t strong enough to defend itself.
Tom Waits - "Eggs and Sausage"
JB13(1969): This one's got a bit of chicka-chicka in it…
John Mayall - "Room to Move"
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Old 09-11-2003, 02:57 PM
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Here's a pretty easy one:

LD1: "On board were the Twelve: The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends."
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Old 09-11-2003, 03:06 PM
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B1(1965):"Last December there appeared in the newspaper the juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary it has ever been my pleasure to read...."
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Old 09-11-2003, 03:18 PM
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Couple of easy ones:

L4L-1
Senores y Senoras,
nosotros tenemos mas influencia
con sus hijos que tu tiene
pero los queremos
creado y regalo
de los angeles.........

L4L-2
You broke my heart
'Cause I couldn't dance
You didn't even want me around
And now I'm back, to let you know
I can really shake 'em down
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Old 09-11-2003, 03:33 PM
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B1(1965):"Last December there appeared in the newspaper the juiciest, spiciest, raciest obituary it has ever been my pleasure to read...."

Yay! I know one. I knew grad school would come in handy someday.

Alma, by Tom Lehrer

"Alma, tell us. All modern women are jealous.

Though you never even used Pons, you bagged Gustav and Walter and Hans."
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Old 09-11-2003, 03:49 PM
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L4L-2 is "Do You Love Me?" by the Contours. (great song, btw!)
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Old 09-11-2003, 04:00 PM
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JB15(1968): I was falling into the flames and I knew that I was gonna burn. I was gonna burn. Oh God, it’s so hot in here, let me out please!

Wild guess here - Maybe The Crazy World of Arthur Brown doing the intro to "Fire?"
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Old 09-11-2003, 04:44 PM
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JB6 - Mojo Nixon "Stuffin Martha's Muffin"
JB8 - Blue Oyster Cult "Revenge Of The Vera Gemini"
JB11 - Long John Baldry?
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Old 09-11-2003, 05:00 PM
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Here's a pretty easy one:

LD1: "On board were the Twelve: The poet, the physician, the farmer, the scientist, the magician and the other so-called Gods of our legends."
Atlantis...Donovon
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Old 09-11-2003, 05:06 PM
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JB14(1969): A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, Got Me?
Captain Beefheart...Trout Mask Replica
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Old 09-11-2003, 05:16 PM
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Re: Another Name That Tune Game: ID Artist and Track by Its Spoken Introduction:

JB7(1985): I always talk like I'm wigged out on Quaaludes. I wear a satin baseball jacket everywhere I go
Clue: A bad Marc Goodman impersonation
Dead Kennedys - MTV Get Off The Air

JB14(1969): A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast and bulbous, Got Me?
Clue: The Sleepy Lagoon Murder
Captain Beefheart - Pachuco Cadaver
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Old 09-11-2003, 06:45 PM
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L4L-1
Senores y Senoras,
nosotros tenemos mas influencia
con sus hijos que tu tiene
pero los queremos
creado y regalo
de los angeles.........
Juana's Adiccion (Jane's Addiction)

The introduction to Ritual de lo Habitual, I believe, but I don't remember the first song on the album.
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Old 09-11-2003, 07:06 PM
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CG1: "Cold-hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colors from our sight....
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Old 09-11-2003, 07:09 PM
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eng1:
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I got beans! Got red beans, black beans, all kinda beans
sweet corn
merliton
okra! okra!
got bananas, ice cold watermelon!
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Old 09-11-2003, 07:14 PM
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CG1: "Cold-hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colors from our sight....
Cold hearted orb that rules the night,
Removes the colours from our sight,
Red is gray and yellow white,
But we decide which is right.
And which is an illusion?


My fav Moody Blues album..

Days of Future passed..the Day begins.
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Old 09-11-2003, 08:08 PM
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Zelski1 Somewhere in a lonely hotel room there's a guy starting to realize that eternal fate has turned its back on him. It's 2 a.m.
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Old 09-12-2003, 07:06 AM
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eng1:
I got beans! Got red beans, black beans, all kinda beans
sweet corn
merliton
okra! okra!
got bananas, ice cold watermelon!
Of course, that's "No Love Today" by Chris Smither
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Old 09-12-2003, 07:41 AM
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Of course, that's "No Love Today" by Chris Smither
Damn...I knew that one!
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Old 09-12-2003, 08:00 AM
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RS1: Truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that Music mattered -- but does it, bollocks. Not compared to how people mattered.

and an easy one, semi-live:
RS2: We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight, and we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement community....
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Old 09-12-2003, 09:27 AM
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Easy one. (No fair Googling)

"Sweet Loretta Fat thought she was a cleaner but she was a frying pan..."
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Old 09-12-2003, 10:19 AM
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Easy one. (No fair Googling)

"Sweet Loretta Fat thought she was a cleaner but she was a frying pan..."
"Get Back" off "Let It Be" by the Beatles
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Old 09-12-2003, 10:21 AM
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RS2: We're so glad to see so many of you lovely people here tonight, and we would especially like to welcome all the representatives of Illinois' law enforcement community....
"Everybody Needs Somebody (to Love)" from the Blues Brothers soundtrack.
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Old 09-12-2003, 10:40 AM
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From Ms Boods: 'Hallo? Who's that speaking, please?'
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Old 09-12-2003, 11:13 AM
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A couple answers:

JB5: "Angry," Paul McCartney

MsBoods: "Party Line," The Kinks


And one of my own:
TB1: "Hey you! Don't watch that, watch this! This is the heavy heavy monster sound, the nuttiest sound around! ..."
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Old 09-12-2003, 01:26 PM
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TB1: "Hey you! Don't watch that, watch this! This is the heavy heavy monster sound, the nuttiest sound around! ..."

-- For some reason, I recall this being Madness' "One Step Beyond." Am I right?
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Old 09-12-2003, 01:37 PM
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RS1: Truth is, I thought it mattered. I thought that Music mattered -- but does it, bollocks. Not compared to how people mattered.
Tubthumping - Chumbabwumba (Taken from the movie Brassed Off - How sad is it that I know that)

Zelski1-Somewhere in a lonely hotel room there's a guy starting to realize that eternal fate has turned its back on him. It's 2 a.m.

This one bugged me for a while:

Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
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Old 09-12-2003, 01:56 PM
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LD2: "I think I busted a button on me trousers - they might fall down."

LD3: "OK baby. Bend over and spread 'em. Here comes my bullet."
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Old 09-12-2003, 02:12 PM
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B1: Even though their in the middle of a whirlwind tour, Henrietta and the Wife Beating Child Haters . . ."
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Old 09-12-2003, 02:19 PM
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B1: Even though their in the middle of a whirlwind tour, Henrietta and the Wife Beating Child Haters . . ."
Dammit, I will learn to hit preview some day:

B1: "Even though they're in the middle of a whirlwind tour, Henrietta Collins and the Wife Beating Child Haters . . ."
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Old 09-12-2003, 03:10 PM
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Ah, I thought of one:

SP1: "Come on everybody, clap your hands. [Sound of a few people halfheartedly applauding.] Ooh, you're looking good. Are you having a good time? I sure am...."

I'll stop there. It should be enough to identify the song.
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Old 09-12-2003, 03:28 PM
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Re: Another Name That Tune Game: ID Artist and Track by Its Spoken Introduction:

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JB11(1971): Police office giving his evidence, “I was proceeding in a southerly direction my lord, when I heard strange sounds coming from Waldorf Place, me lord…A sort of boogie-woogie music was being played
Clue: This is where Sir Elton both produced and got his surname

JB12(1970): You know when you're born, you first see light of day through a gap in your mother's legs, it's the truth…
Clue: The alternative to making love – An obscure intro to an old 60’s cover.

JB15(1968): I was falling into the flames and I knew that I was gonna burn. I was gonna burn. Oh God, it’s so hot in here, let me out please!
Clue: Song went #1-UK and #2-US but the into never got airplay. Produced during Townsend’s heroin days
I don't think anyone has tried JB12 yet--"Mother Earth" by Eric Burdon & War, right?

And I don't think the title was given for JB11--"Don't Try to Lay No Boogie-Woogie on the King of Rock & Roll" by Long John Baldry (or Bald John Laundry).

Nitpick: JB15 isn't really an intro to "Fire," it's the last lines of the previous track on the album, "Fire Poem."
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Old 09-12-2003, 03:32 PM
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SP1: "Come on everybody, clap your hands. [Sound of a few people halfheartedly applauding.] Ooh, you're looking good. Are you having a good time? I sure am...."
Ah, Spoons, is your first name Sam by chance? That's "Trouser Press" by the Bonzo Dog Band!
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Old 09-12-2003, 03:33 PM
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LD2: "I think I busted a button on me trousers - they might fall down."

LD3: "OK baby. Bend over and spread 'em. Here comes my bullet."
LD3 is the Mothers of Invention version of "Happy Together."

I know what album LD2 is from, but I can't remember which song follows...
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Old 09-12-2003, 03:41 PM
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san1: i still believe in god, but god no longer believes in me
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Old 09-12-2003, 04:37 PM
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CG-2: "I am the god of hellfire..."

CG-3: "I am. I think I am...therefore I am....I think..."

CG-4: "Hello, I'm Johnny Cash."
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Old 09-12-2003, 04:42 PM
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CG-5: "Gimme an F!"
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Old 09-12-2003, 04:43 PM
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CG-2: Fire, The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (whose website is the excellently named godofhellfire.co.uk)
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Old 09-12-2003, 04:48 PM
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JB1(1997): Another world, another time. This land was green and good until the crystal cracked.
Clue: If the line spawns the idea it’s Filter, you’re warm – but incorrect.
This is Crystal Method's Trip Like I DO. The intro is lifted from The Dark Crystal.
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Old 09-12-2003, 05:24 PM
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CG-6: "You broke my heart, cuz I couldn't dance..."
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Old 09-12-2003, 05:27 PM
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Right, Spoons.
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Old 09-12-2003, 05:36 PM
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We gonna get it crazy tonight? You gonna get it crazy tonight? I'll get down to it! Are you gonna get it crazy? I'll get down to it!
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You gonna get all it all down, get it all night , get it all right, get it out of sight, and get it down baby?


Hint..the song is an instrumental.
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Old 09-12-2003, 05:37 PM
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Right on with the Mothers, Biffy! Good job!

How about if I give you a line from LD2: "Don't let me steal your heart away."

CG-6 is the same as L4L2: "Do You Love Me?" by the Contours
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Old 09-12-2003, 05:37 PM
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CG-7: "Fellas, I'm ready to get up and do my thing
I wanta get into it, man, you know...."
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Old 09-12-2003, 05:39 PM
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SNOOP1: "Soon I discovered that this rock thing was true. Jerry Lee Lewis was the devil. Jesus was an architect previous to his career as a prophet. All of a sudden, I found myself in love with the world. So there was only one thing that I could do, was ding a ding dang my dang a long ling long."
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Old 09-12-2003, 05:39 PM
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CG-6 is the same as L4L2: "Do You Love Me?" by the Contours
Dang...missed it somehow.
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Old 09-12-2003, 05:46 PM
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Oh, and CG-5 is "Fish Cheer" by Country Joe and the Fish (segues into "Feel Like I'm Fixin' to Die Rag")
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Old 09-12-2003, 06:07 PM
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CG-7 is "Sex Machine" by James Brown.

SNOOP1 is "Jesus Built My Hot Rod" by Ministry (featuring Gibby Haines)
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