# Her name was... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 2, 2000, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344 "2000-11-02T03:29:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/21 "2000-11-02T15:13:31Z")
Oh man… as soon as I saw the title, the damn song started going through my head too. Why oh WHY did I open this thread? So now I’m alternating between “Lola” and “Copa Cabana”. Damn you all to hell! ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Batty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jack_batty/32/3201_2.png) [@Jack\_Batty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Batty)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/22 "2000-11-02T15:56:39Z")
Good morning everybody. Let us now commence with our joyous morning sing-along. I’ll start, and you just jump in whenever you want. _:: clears throat ::_ Whoooooooooooooaaaaaahhhhhhhh, Tie that yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree It’s been three long years Do ya still want me? (still want me) If I don’t see a ribbon 'round the ole oak tree I’ll stay on the bus Forget about us Put the blame on me If I don’t see a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree Everybody!! ---
**Author:** ![Ura-Maru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/51bf81/32.png) [@Ura-Maru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ura-Maru)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/23 "2000-11-02T16:05:53Z")
“. . . Flipper, Flipper, faster than lightning . . . .” Shoot me now. Ok, TOSS! > [@](#): > > Well, you have to hand it to Barry. He does write the songs that make the young girls cry. Yeah, THAT’s tough to do . . . 🙂 – “Basted wiht sun-brewed mayonayse.” ---
**Author:** ![Missy2U](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3bc359/32.png) [@Missy2U](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Missy2U)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/24 "2000-11-02T16:17:47Z")
Happy Thursday, **Jack!** A heartbeat, it’s a lovebeat And a lovebeat is a good vibration Oh, a heartbeat is a lovebeat And when we meet , it’s a good sensation ``` Listen to my heart pound ``` Listen to my love sound Feel it gettin’ stronger Can’t hold back any longer Heartbeat, it’s a lovebeat And a lovebeat is a good vibration Oh a heartbeat it’s a lovebeat And when we meet, it’s a good sensation ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/25 "2000-11-02T16:19:02Z")
If we must have lyrics by a Barry, let it be the great one… We got it together, didn’t we? Nobody but you and me We got it together, Baby My first, my last, my everything And the answer to all my dreams. You’re my sun, my moon, my guiding star. My kind of wonderful, that’s what you are. ---
**Author:** ![Fillet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/2acd7d/32.png) [@Fillet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fillet)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/26 "2000-11-02T16:49:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Odieman \* > **So many nights I’d sit by my window…** Evil, Odieman, EVIL! Take THIS, BWHA HA HA HA HA! _I’m on the Top of the world, looking Down on Creation And the only explanation I can find Is the the love that I’ve found Ever since you’ve been around Your love’s putting me at the top of the world_ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![andyman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8491ac/32.png) [@andyman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andyman)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/27 "2000-11-02T16:54:01Z")
On the day I was born, the nurses all gathered 'round, and they gazed in wild wonder, at the joy they had found. The head nurse spoke up! She said “Leave this one alone!” She could tell right away, that I was bad to the bone. Ba-DA-ba-DA-da! Wash - Rinse - Repeat ---
**Author:** ![c\_goat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@c\_goat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/c_goat)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/28 "2000-11-02T17:18:20Z")
Zelda. She was a calligraphy enthusiast with a slight overbite and hair the color of strange peaches. ---
**Author:** ![Turpentine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecd19e/32.png) [@Turpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turpentine)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/29 "2000-11-02T17:25:14Z")
Will this work on ANYBODY??? “I’m the operator of my pocket calculator…” ---
**Author:** ![Saltire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saltire/32/553_2.png) [@Saltire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saltire)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/30 "2000-11-02T17:25:33Z")
Feelings, whoa-whoa-whoa, feeeeeelings… [I hate myself now, I really do.] ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/31 "2000-11-02T17:39:41Z")
You gotta be– cruel to be kind, in the right measure. Cruel to be kind; it’s very good sign. Cruel to be kind, means that I love you —baaaaby! You gotta be cruel _you gotta be cruel_ to be kind. (This loathesome tune came out in the late seventies, and one of my older sisters _bought the record_. Pure torment.) ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/32 "2000-11-02T17:50:11Z")
When I first entered my college dorm room, as a freshman, my roommate (assigned randomly) had been there and left his stuff, but he wasn’t there at the moment. I thought I’d see what I could learn from his possessions. I found his record (yes, record!) collection: Neil Diamond. Bread. Three Dog Night. We didn’t get along all that well. So sing with me – _Jeremiah was a bullfrog! Was a good friend of mine! I never understood a single word he said But he always had some mighty fine wine!_ ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/33 "2000-11-02T18:09:20Z")
Far a-wayyyy, and long ago I fell in love with you During the second show… Don’t you remember you told me you loved me, baby? Baby baby baby baby oh baby I loooooooooove youuuuuuuuuuuuuu… ---
**Author:** ![Tabithina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f04885/32.png) [@Tabithina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tabithina)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/34 "2000-11-02T18:14:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by pluto \* > \*\*\ > > So sing with me – > > _Jeremiah was a bullfrog! > Was a good friend of mine! > I never understood a single word he said > But he always had some mighty fine wine!_ \*\* I _like_ this song!😉 Bread, however, is EVIL! “Lost without your love… life without you isn’t worth the trouble of. I’m as helpless as a shift without a wheel…” Glllllluuurge! ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/35 "2000-11-02T19:07:55Z")
I’ve got a triple whammy for you–and if there is a god in heaven, maybe you’re too young to remember or old enough to have forgotten them… “Look what they’ve done to my song, Ma, Look what done to my song…” “Daddy please don’t, It wasn’t his fault. He means so much to me” “That’s the night that the lights went out in Georgia…” I would’ve quoted Vicki’s other big hit, but thankfully, I seem to have blocked it out of my conscious mind. ---
**Author:** ![Dragwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dragwyr/32/2855_2.png) [@Dragwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragwyr)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/36 "2000-11-02T19:09:51Z")
Sing us a song. You’re the Piano-Man. Sing us a song tonght. Well, we’re all in the mood for a melody, And you’ve got us feelin’ alright. ---
**Author:** ![Torberg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7ea924/32.png) [@Torberg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Torberg)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/37 "2000-11-02T19:18:56Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by struuter \* > \*\*“That’s the night that the lights went out in Georgia…” > \*\* I love this song. Picked up one of Reba McEntire’s CD’s solely to get her rendition of this song. (Like a few other songs on the CD too.) “You see little sister don’t miss when she aims her gun.” But how about this: _It’s not unusual to be loved by anyone_ ---
**Author:** ![struuter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9e5f3/32.png) [@struuter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/struuter)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/38 "2000-11-02T19:27:57Z")
Torberg, I only chose Vicki’s big hit because it was the only example of the classic ‘story’ song I could think of right off. I happen to love ‘The Night Chicago Died.’ Yup. I do. ---
**Author:** ![tradesilicon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/439d5e/32.png) [@tradesilicon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tradesilicon)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2000, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/39 "2000-11-02T19:29:09Z")
Oh, you had to bring Tom Jones into this… This is the one I usually can’t shake once it starts playing in my mind: My, my, my, Deeelila. Why, why, why, Deeelila. and how about: What’s up Pussycat, wooo-uuu-woooo-uuu-wooo-uuu. ---
**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:** [November 2, 2000, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344/40 "2000-11-02T19:37:24Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by struuter \* > **it was the only example of the classic ‘story’ song I could think of right off.** Then let me rectify that… \*My child arrived just the other day he came to the world in the usual way but there were planes to catch, and bills to pay he learned to walk while I was away he was talking 'fore I knew it and as he grew he said I’m gonna be like you dad you know I’m gonna be like you And the cat’s in the cradle and the silver spoon little boy blue and the man on the moon when you coming home dad I don’t know when but we’ll get together then you know we’ll have a good time then\* [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/her-name-was/39344.md?page=3)