A Baba O'Reilly Thread or What's the name of that song?

[Biggirl]

@koeeoaddi

Illinois Central? You mean Without Love?

Also, She Has Funny Cars, by Jefferson Airplane turns out to be that And I Know song.

You are absolutely right. I even got the wrong name wrong.

[MrDibble]

@Drain_Bead

How many other people sang the lyrics of “Elderly Woman…” until you found the first “the”? after reading this thread?

raises hand

[Jackmannii]

@cjepson

So now I’m trying to think of the earliest pop hit that had a title not appearing in the lyrics. (Songs without lyrics don’t count, of course!) So far the earliest definite one I’ve come up with is “A Lovers’ Concerto” (1965). I’m sure there are earlier ones

Another is Kyu Sakamoto’s “Sukiyaki”, a word that does not appear in the all-Japanese lyrics (trust me on this one). The song made #1 in the U.S. in 1963, knocking Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party” out of the top spot, for which Sakamoto should have received the Nobel Prize.

[ministryman]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

It was a joke- it’s a double example, since everyone thinks the name of the song is Excuse Me While I Touch The Sky, except the people who mishear the lyric, and think the name of the song is Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy.

That’s “Excuse Me While I KISS The Sky”…

Kiss this Guy is a “Mondragreen”, and there are at least three published book son this…oops,got off track…

Don’t any of these people listen to the DJ who announces the name of the song?

Maybe it’s because I’m old, but if you named those songs, I could probably sing either the chorus or the first few lines.

[Labdad]

I think most folks know “Rock & Roll, Part 2” as “Hey!”

[cjepson]

@mj_2

Which reminds me of Danny’s Song - Kenny Loggins. “Even though we ain’t got money” song. There are probable several (put name here) song.

You can add “Emily’s Song” by the Moody Blues (“and in the morning of my life, and in the evening of my day…”), and “Michelle’s Song” by Elton John (“No one’s going to find us, no matter how they try…”). Two major faves of mine.

[Brown_Eyed_Girl]

I just remembered:

System of a Down’s B.Y.O.B. (“la la la la la la la la…dancin’ in the desert blowing up sunshine”) and Chop Suey! (“you wanted to…”).

[Biggirl]

Just heard Simon & Garfunkel’s If I Only Could. Only it’s El Condor Pasa.

[It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery]

@pulykamell

The 90s were quite big on this.

Green Day’s “Basket Case” and “Brain Stew”

And a lot more I’m forgetting…

That reminds me - Green Day’s Longview is a great example, too (“Bite my lips and close my eyes, take me away to Paradise”).

[Rick]

@Really_Not_All_That_Bright

It was a joke- it’s a double example, since everyone thinks the name of the song is Excuse Me While I Touch The Sky, except the people who mishear the lyric, and think the name of the song is Excuse Me While I Kiss This Guy.

I can understand the misheard lyric. What I can’t understand is someone thinking that the name of the song is that particular lyric misheard or not.
Read the lyrics The phrase Purple Haze appears 8 times, scuse me while I kiss the sky appears just once. :rolleyes:

[Terminus_Est]

@Jackmannii

Another is Kyu Sakamoto’s “Sukiyaki”, a word that does not appear in the all-Japanese lyrics (trust me on this one). The song made #1 in the U.S. in 1963, knocking Lesley Gore’s “It’s My Party” out of the top spot, for which Sakamoto should have received the Nobel Prize.

“Sukiyaki” is the English name of the song entitled “Ue o muite aruko” in Japanese. The Japanese title is in fact the first line of the song, which is a pensive love song that has nothing to do with food. Calling it “Sukiyaki” in the US makes about as much sense as exporting the Carpenters song “Yesterday Once More” to Japan and calling it “Hamburger”.

[Biggirl]

I remember Sukiyaki being sung by a two girl funk band in the '70s. At the end they did whisper ‘sukiyaki’ at the end.

Now I can’t remember the name of the band. Both women played guitars. Um, waitaminit–

(search. . . search. . .search)

Ah, Taste of Honey.

[gigi]

@cjepson

You can add “Emily’s Song” by the Moody Blues (“and in the morning of my life, and in the evening of my day…”), and “Michelle’s Song” by Elton John (“No one’s going to find us, no matter how they try…”). Two major faves of mine.

Louise’s Song by Stan Rogers and
Kathy’s Song by Simon and Garfunkel

[Biggirl]

A question on El Condor Pasa— I think I remember it as a theme for some spaghetti western. I’m not sure because any spaghetti western I watch is under threat of the silent treatment from hubby, who loves them. So, is it a theme in a Western?

[Mister_Rik]

@TWDuke

ETA: I can’t be the only one who ever called Also sprach Zarathustra “The Theme From 2001: A Space Odyssey,” although I *think * I knew it had another name even then.

I remember being endlessly confused as a child in the '70s by adults who called Scott Joplin’s “The Entertainer” by the name “The Sting”. I was in my late 20s before I discovered that the song was used as the theme for a '70s movie called “The Sting”. Similarly, those who called “Mrs. Robinson” “The Graduate”.

@Shoeless

I came in to mention that “You Don’t Have To Go” song that they do, which is titled “D’yer Mak’er”, and which is pronounced “Jer Maker”, NOT “Dye-er Maker”! (Pet peeve of mine. Argh! DJs ought to know better!)

And of course, the song title is a play on an old joke:

Man #1: So the wife and I took a Carribbean vacation…
Man #2: Jamaica? (D’yer Mak’er?)
Man #1: No, she wanted to go.

@Terminus_Est

“Sukiyaki” is the English name of the song entitled “Ue o muite aruko” in Japanese. The Japanese title is in fact the first line of the song, which is a pensive love song that has nothing to do with food. Calling it “Sukiyaki” in the US makes about as much sense as exporting the Carpenters song “Yesterday Once More” to Japan and calling it “Hamburger”.

The proper translation of the actual Japanese title works out to “I Look Up While I Walk”. It’s actually a song about lost love; the title line in the song says, “I look up while I walk so my tears don’t fall”.

[Terminus_Est]

@Biggirl

I remember Sukiyaki being sung by a two girl funk band in the '70s. At the end they did whisper ‘sukiyaki’ at the end.

Now I can’t remember the name of the band. Both women played guitars. Um, waitaminit–

(search. . . search. . .search)

Ah, Taste of Honey.

This was a cover version of the Japanese original, with very-loosely translated English lyrics. The word they whisper at the end is “Sayonara”.

Japanese original by Kyu Sakamoto
English cover by A Taste of Honey

[drastic_quench]

The Beatles - A Day in the Life
Bob Dylan - Positively 4th Street

[Theodore_Striker]

Another Led Zep example is Black Dog or Hey hey mama said the way you move/ gonna make you sweat, etc…" No real chorus or repeated phrases really to confuse everyone. Title refers to the dog that kept drifting in and out of the house they were recording in.

[GargoyleWB]

@Rucksinator

Karn Evil by EL&P. (“Welcome to the show”)

:smack: I just now got that song title. 30 freakin’ years, and I’ve been thinking “Who is Karn? He must be the evil Orwellian overlord of the circus that they are singing about…” :smack:

[TBG]

It’s “the gambler” not “you got to know when to hold em”. Although the gambler is mentioned in the song, so maybe that doesn’t count.