And I didn’t think I would learn anything new today!
I just did a Bat Mitzvah video montage and chose Hanson’s “Mmmbop” for the baby/childhood segment because of the line, “You go through all the baby’s life, you turn you back and they’re gone so fast…”
Turns out the line is actually, "You go through all the pain and strife, blah, blah, blah. Song has nothing to do with watching your young ones grow up and leave, but how you get screwed over in relationships! :smack:
For the longest time I thought The Who was singing about New Orleans with their song, “Who Are You?” In my mind I always heard it as Newwwww Orleans… whoo whoo, hoo hoo! (still do, come to think of it).
What about “Layla”? For years I thought Clapton was singing “Hey love!” I couldn’t figure out why I kept hearing about what a great song “Layla” was. To the best of my knowledge I’d never heard it. Until I finally figured it out.
I think this fits the OP - I remember in the mid 60’s the controversy and confusion surrounding the lyrics to the song Louie Louie by the Kingsmen. They sang the lyrics so fast you really couldn’t tell what the hell was being said and the story (at least while I was in college) was that the lyrics had all sorts of profanity.
It’s interesting to note that the song was actually a revved up version of the original by Richard Berry from 1957.
You thought Kilanmajero was “rising like a lepress along the garbled sea”, dint’cha?
The remake of Lady Marmalade, Lil Kim’s rap in the middle, I almost thought she was “gettin’ down with the Jews”, but alas, it was just the “dudes”.
She’d have gotten off if I was right. ;j
Note that Manfred Mann was the keyboard player/bandleader, but not the singer. The douche-wrapper you want is Chris Thompson, who was the Manfred Mann’s Earth Band singer when they recorded “Blinded by the Light.”
Some of you might remember the early Bill Cosby Show, when he was a highschool basketball coach. The theme song was really fun, lots of indistinguishable words (http://www.sitcomsonline.com/sounds/thebillcosbyshow1969-1971.wav). In the late 70’s I heard a bootleg tape from a club where he was jamming with Quincy Jones and singing the same song, but replacing “rackets” and other PE equipment with words like “smack” and “coke”. It was fun hearing America’s Dad going off on that riff.
Hmm, seems like that link isn’t good. Try this, it’s a great song with lots of sax. Just scroll down to Click Here To Download Theme Song. http://timstvshowcase.com/billcosby.html
Neat! I have the 45 (titled “Hikky Burr,” Parts One and Two) credited to Bill Cosby with the Bunions Bradford Band, but it’s not the same version that was used on the TV show.
Actually, the mountain is Kilimanjaro. Whoops, this isn’t a “Misspelled Words” thread…
I never heard the “hundred men or more” lyric as “hundred men from Mars”, but that mondegreen has been reported elsewhere. I did think that “I bless the rains down in Africa” was “I guess the rain’s…”
AskNott: Cyndi Lauper’s version of Iko Iko does indeed begin “My grand-ma and your grand-ma were/ Sit-tin’ by the fire.” The “flag boy” verse comes later.
In the Fugazi song “Latin Roots”, when they sing “it’s time to meet your makers”, it sounds like they are singing “it’s time to meet Jamaicans,” although I rejected that interpretation due to nonsensicality. But I’ve found online reviewers who also did a double-take on it!
