# Any other songs like "One Night in Bangkok" ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 1, 2007, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290 "2007-04-01T13:14:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/21 "2007-04-02T08:12:46Z")
[QUOTE=GIGObuster] BTW, the original video of _One Night in Bangkok_ is no longer at Youtube… [/QUOTE] But it is available on Google video [here](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8179422597532364836&q=one+night+in+bangkok). “Tea, girls…warm and so sweet, some’r set up in the Somerset Maugham suite” (Two “summersets”, get it?) 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 8:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/22 "2007-04-02T08:38:18Z")
That should read, “…_some’re_ set up in the Somerset Maugham suite.” (Might make a little more sense that way.) 😛 Also, “Get Thai’d! You’re talking to a tourist Whose every move’s among the purest…” Pretty clever lyrics (by Tim Rice) couched in that cheesy little song. ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/23 "2007-04-02T12:23:38Z")
[QUOTE=Lute Skywatcher] Well, there are some baseball board games. [/QUOTE] I think John Fogerty was talking about Strat-o-matic. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 12:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/24 "2007-04-02T12:30:37Z")
Tim Rice & ABBA did Chess; Andrew Lloyd Webber & Ben Elton did football (or, as we Yanks call it, soceer) in [The Beautiful Game](http://www.beeptwo.com/green/index.html). Check out the title song “Viva The Beautiful Game.” I first heard it during the Subway Series and did a parody “Viva The Yankees and Mets.” ---
**Author:** ![Trunk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/87869e/32.png) [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/25 "2007-04-02T12:59:39Z")
I think the classic Zeppelin song “Pretty Sneaky Sis” was about Connect Four. ---
**Author:** ![ArizonaTeach](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/45deac/32.png) [@ArizonaTeach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ArizonaTeach)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/26 "2007-04-02T13:03:22Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk] I think the classic Zeppelin song “Pretty Sneaky Sis” was about Connect Four. [/QUOTE] Oh, bravo. _Bravo_. ---
**Author:** ![xnylder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/bbce88/32.png) [@xnylder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xnylder)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/27 "2007-04-02T13:57:15Z")
How’s about anything by Fats Domino or Chubby Checker? (To tie this to the OP, the latter purposely chose his stage name to have a game it in, like the hugely successful former.) ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/28 "2007-04-02T15:40:04Z")
[QUOTE=Starving Artist] “Tea, girls…warm and so sweet, some’r set up in the Somerset Maugham suite” (Two “summersets”, get it?) 😉 [/QUOTE] Thank you! I could never figure out what that line was! ---
**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2007, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/29 "2007-04-02T16:11:24Z")
XTC’s [“Happy Families”](http://chalkhills.org/reelbyreal/s_Happy.html) (it’s a board game popular in the U.K.) “…It starts out with a dealing in the middle of the night/And ends up with a full house if you play your cards out right…” ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/30 "2007-04-03T03:24:51Z")
[QUOTE=Skammer] Thank you! I could never figure out what that line was! [/QUOTE] Glad I could be of service. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/31 "2007-04-03T12:16:26Z")
If electric train racing counts, then the whole cast recording of “Starlight Express.” ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/32 "2007-04-03T16:34:09Z")
AC/DC’s sin city: “Ladders and Snakes Ladders give Snakes take.” ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/33 "2007-04-03T16:58:38Z")
Chris Cornell’s “You Know My Name,” the opening track to the recent Bond remake “Casino Royale,” has several lyrics that are indirectly about poker, but are ambiguous enough to mean just about anything. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/34 "2007-04-03T17:01:06Z")
Okay, maybe I have no taste, but I don’t think the song is either cheesy or kitschy. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/35 "2007-04-03T17:04:54Z")
If you would consider sports - Big League - Tom Cochrane? ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/36 "2007-04-03T17:10:12Z")
I feel obliged to bring up this wonderously inventive and humorous (ahem) [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=192372&highlight=monopoly) on this subject already. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/37 "2007-04-03T17:31:53Z")
[QUOTE=ArchiveGuy] I feel obliged to bring up this wonderously inventive and humorous (ahem) [thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=192372&highlight=monopoly) on this subject already. 😛 [/QUOTE] Searching the **Archive** , **Guy**? I didn’t think of Pinball Wizard from Tommy. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/38 "2007-04-03T20:23:35Z")
I submit Chuck Berry’s _My Ding A Ling_ ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/39 "2007-04-03T20:43:07Z")
[QUOTE=Dr. Rieux] Okay, maybe I have no taste, but I don’t think the song is either cheesy or kitschy. [/QUOTE] That makes two of us. I think the lyrics are tremendously clever faux double-entendre. The only other writers to incorporate such complex and funny plays on words were Gilbert & Sullivan. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [April 3, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290/40 "2007-04-03T20:48:55Z")
Motorhead’s “Ace of Spades” is all about poker. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-other-songs-like-one-night-in-bangkok/398290.md?page=3)