# If I produced The Singing Bee and I was EVIL **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2007, 2:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865 "2007-08-08T14:59:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 3:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/41 "2007-08-13T15:19:27Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] I would hope that the songs on Elton’s _Caribou_ album are not considered “obscure”. [/QUOTE] You would hope that but if the song didn’t get much radio play, it probably isn’t that “well-known”. I noticed that the show sticks pretty much to top 40 in the rock and roll era, albums be damned. Not that I’d agree with that since much of early rock was album orientated but that’s not what people remember. They remember the songs. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/42 "2007-08-13T18:32:15Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] I prefer the version from when Peter Griffen was in the band…“Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Lawrey’s Seasoning Salt” [/QUOTE] Scarborough Fair. And I prefer this version, [Cylon and Garfunkel](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEMmni-fBuQ). ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/43 "2007-08-13T18:49:01Z")
[QUOTE=Zebra] Of it is Itsy Bitsy. How about the Star-Spangled Banner? Have the contestant sing the second verse. Muuu wa wa ha ha ha [/QUOTE] You kidding? I guarantee if they made the contestant sing the first verse, at least half of them would fail. ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/44 "2007-08-13T18:53:54Z")
Yes, but verse two would eliminate everyone. ---
**Author:** ![want2know](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/50afbb/32.png) [@want2know](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/want2know)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/45 "2007-08-13T19:21:55Z")
[QUOTE=Poysyn] I think “La Bamba” with non-Spanish speaking contestants would be good. [/QUOTE] Or “Eres Tu” by Mocedades! Evil: “Hot Rod Lincoln” by Commander Cody More evil: “Life is a Rock” by Reunion Satan Himself: “Rubber Biscuit” by The Blues Brothers 😛 ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [August 13, 2007, 8:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/46 "2007-08-13T20:09:50Z")
last verse to Devil went down to Georgia - 10 extra points to the player if they ask “which version” (radio or album) - both were heard on the radio depending upon type of radio station (rock stations usually played album, country stations usually played the “radio” version.) ---
**Author:** ![Roadfood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9fc348/32.png) [@Roadfood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadfood)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/47 "2007-08-14T21:01:59Z")
[QUOTE=ivylass] **Bohemian Rhapsody** by Queen. IIRC, even they wouldn’t perform it live in concert, it was too complicated. [/QUOTE] Au contrare. I saw Queen live back in the day, Freddie Mercury and all. They did, in fact, perform **Bohemian Rhapsody**. There’s even a [youtubevideo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCo1OVNbYFQ) of a live performance. True, they go to a video for the major harmonic part, but even then the lyrics are easily understandable. ---
**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/48 "2007-08-15T00:55:09Z")
[QUOTE=want2know] “Life is a Rock” by Reunion [/QUOTE] OK, we have a winner! I love this song, but I can’t sing along with much of it! Not only are the words sung at high speed, making them hard to pick up on and memorize, but there are no BREATHING PLACES in the verses! Even if I _could_ get all the words, I’d turn blue in the face trying to sing them all! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/49 "2007-08-15T01:15:24Z")
[QUOTE=want2know] Or “Eres Tu” by Mocedades! [/QUOTE] I had completely forgotten this song even existed. Now I have to go download it (all legal and paid for, I swear!) and I blame YOU! ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 9:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/50 "2007-08-15T09:35:45Z")
I find the show pretty obnoxious as it is (hate annoying buzzers; different songs for the contestants makes no sense at all), but if you really want to ramp it up\*, here are some ideas. - Assuming whole songs, of course, which pretty much makes this a theoretical discussion as this is _never_ happening in _any_ game show, but anyway… Who Let The Dogs Out (Baha Men) Don’t laugh. Listen to the whole song sometime. This thing is tricky as hell, not only because of the two superfast parts, but because of the _other_ stanzas which sound completely different, and which switch around with no rhyme or reason. And of course, they’ll have to sing the annoying chorus part exactly the right number of times, every time; that alone is some serious memorization. Garden of Eden (Guns 'n Roses) Starts out at a blistering uniform pace…then cuts down to half speed with no warning whatsoever. Plus it’s metal, which’d probably be the biggest factor for a lot of contestants. Adiemus (Adiemus) Completely made-up language, which means that not only is there no choice but to get a copy of the lyrics and study every damn sound, even _then_ there’s a pretty huge chance of screwing up along the way. Bonus points for being a song that everyone’s heard somewhere and should get right. Kyrie (Mr. Mister) To see if anyone 1. remembers one of many obscure artists on the fringes of pop and 2. is actually dumb enough to still think it’s “carry a laser”, ye gods. 🙂 Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen) For such a famous song, it has some parts that are really difficult to understand. “God in a little hotown jam, so the put 'er out a lid my ham…” Not to mention all the stuff about killing and then having no hope and all. U Can’t Touch This (MC Hammer) A _lot_ of contestants (say, all of them) are going to be made fools of by this. How do I put this…there are about a bazillion words here, and only a few of them repeat at all. And it’s fast. And it’s pretty long, especially for something that fast. Gonna Make You Sweat (C&C Music Factory) U Can’t Touch This minus any sense. Original, non-Americanized, undancified, unaltered, unbutchered Macarena (Los Del Rio) “Hey, where the hell did all these Spanish words come from?” Toxic (Crazy Town) Just for the hell of it. (And for the shocked looks on contestants expecting it to be like the Brittney Spears song.) ---
**Author:** ![Butterscotch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/dc4da7/32.png) [@Butterscotch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Butterscotch)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/51 "2007-08-15T10:22:07Z")
‘Seven Seconds’ by Neneh Cherry and Youssou N’Dour should sort the men from the boys. [QUOTE=Biggirl] How about starting a biiiig controversy? Is it Itsy, Bitsy Spider or Teeny, Weeny Spider? It’s Itsy, Bitsy. Allayalls who say anything different are WRONG! [/QUOTE] Erm, it’s Incy Wincy… ---
**Author:** ![whitetho](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whitetho/32/1059_2.png) [@whitetho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whitetho)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2007, 10:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865/52 "2007-08-15T10:33:21Z")
[Bumble Bee](http://lyricsplayground.com/alpha/songs/b/bumblebee.shtml), originally by LaVerne Baker, but also a #21 U.S. hit by The Searchers in 1965: _Shoo-wee, you hurt me like a bee A bumble bee, an evil bumble bee_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-i-produced-the-singing-bee-and-i-was-evil/414865.md?page=2)