# If life is a rock and the radio rolls me... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2002, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975 "2002-03-30T22:52:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 13
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/241 "2002-04-10T02:44:04Z")
or, at least, not convicted thereof… presents a ‘Novelty’ tune, which as discussed previously, _Do Not Count:_ "Please Mr. Custer, I don’t wanna go. Hey, Mister Custer, Please don’t make me go. I had a dream last night, About the coming fight, Somebody yelled ‘Attack’, And there I stood with an arrow in my back! …They were sure of victory, The men of the Seventh Calvary As they rode on… But then from the rear A voice was heard The same great voice Rang load and clear… ---
**Author:** ![Zyada](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zyada/32/3028_2.png) [@Zyada](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zyada)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/242 "2002-04-10T02:58:07Z")
Ok, a little more _Planes and boats and trains they mean a trip to Paris or Rome for someone else, but not for me those planes and those boats and trains took you away, away from me._ That’s 60s pop dreck, which may be why you didn’t recognize it. And I wasn’t sucking up to Arnold, really! But the measure of a really bad song should be how little you can post and get it lodged into someone’s brain. 😛 Like “We had joy, we had fun” One of my fave’s Ooga shuka Ooga Ooga Ooga Shuka… I can’t stop this feeling, deep inside of me Girl you just don’t know what you do to me… ---
**Author:** ![Rico](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rico/32/3582_2.png) [@Rico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rico)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/243 "2002-04-10T03:19:01Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by happyheathen \* **Rico** , if’fn you’re all that smart, how come YOU didn’t post _Jolene_? [QUOTE] Well, with \ Billions and Billions \ of songs out there, you can’t expect me to post them all? Or maybe you’d like me to do the \*Every Song Ever Recorded on an 8 CD set \* infomercial? 😃 Meanwhile, back at the sock hop… _Is she really going out with him? Well, there she is. Let’s ask her. Betty, is that Jimmy’s ring you’re wearing? Mm-hmm Gee, it must be great riding with him Is he picking you up after school today? Uh-uh By the way, where’d you meet him?_ I met him at the candy store He turned around and smiled at me You get the picture? (yes, we see) That’s when I fell for the leader of the pack My folks were always putting him down (down, down) They said he came from the wrong side of town (whatcha mean when ya say that he came from the wrong side of town?) They told me he was bad But I knew he was sad That’s why I fell for the leader of the pack 🆒 ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/244 "2002-04-10T09:58:51Z")
“When I was small, And Christmas tree’s were tall. We used to laugh while others used to play” “Ruuuuuuuuuuuuuu-by (duh duh duh) Dont take your love to town” "If I were a carpenter, and you were a lady, would you still (neh neh … (sorry, my brain forbids me from remembering any more than that) “Fat bottomed girls, They make the rocking world go round” And finally… the big gun. (are you ready?) Stars on 45, Keep on Shining in your eyes. We can work it out! Remember Twist and Shout! bwahahaha! ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2002, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/245 "2002-04-10T20:05:36Z")
Smoke on the water, Fire in the sky… Don’t take your guns to town, boy Leave your guns at home… and, for the younger set… Tempted by the fruit of another Tempted but the truth is discovered What’s been going on Now that you have gone There’s no other… ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/246 "2002-04-11T00:57:56Z")
Okay–here’s dreck-o-rama: I be STROKIN’!!! Dat’s what I be doin’. I be STROKIN’!!! Dat’s what I be doin’. I stroke it to da norf, and I stroke it to da souf, Sometimes…I even stroke it wit my–WOOO!!! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 2:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/247 "2002-04-11T02:46:49Z")
The night was dark, rain fallin’ down Looked for my baby she’s nowhere around Traced her footsteps down to the shore 'Fraid she’s gone forever more I looked at the sea, and it seemed to say I took your baby from you away I heard a voice, cryin’ in the deep Come join me Baby, in my endless sleep And so forth. _Endless Sleep_ by Jody Reynolds, circa 1957. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/248 "2002-04-11T03:26:55Z")
Another “Dead Teenager” song! (my favorite sub-species of _Musica Dreckitae_) “For he was born the next of kin, The next of kin to the wayward wind…” ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/249 "2002-04-11T04:33:22Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by happyheathen \* > \*\*Another “Dead Teenager” song! (my favorite sub-species of _Musica Dreckitae_) \*\* Ok, if you get off on dead teener songs, here’s another that hasn’t been mentioned: Chorus: He wore black denim trousers and motorcycle boots And a black leather jacket with an eagle on the back He had a hopped-up cycle that took off like a gun That fool was the terror of Hi-way 101 He had a pretty girlfriend by the name of Mary Lou But he treated her just like he treated all the rest And everybody pittied her 'cause everybody knew He loved that dog-gone motorcycle best Chorus Mary Lou poor girl she pleaded and she begged him not to leave She said “I’ve got a feeling if you ride tonight I’ll weep” But her tears were shed in vain and her every word was lost In the rumble from his engine and the smoke from his exhaust Then he took off like the devil, there was fire in his eyes He said “I’ll go a thousand miles before the sun can rise” But he hit a screaming deisel that was California bound And when they cleared the wreckage all they found Was his black denim trousers and motorcycle boots And the black leather jacket with an eagle on the back But they never found the cycle that took off like a gun And they never found the terror of hi-way 101 _Black Denim Trousers_, or alternatively,_The Terror of Hi-way 101_ . By Vaughn Monroe, and also done by the Diamonds, around '55 or '56. ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 9:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/250 "2002-04-11T09:54:26Z")
_De doo doo doo, de dah dah dah Is all I want to say to you. De doo doo doo, de dah dah dah The innocence comes shining through._ CJ ---
**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 1:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/251 "2002-04-11T13:24:37Z")
Jeremiah was a bullfrog Was a good friend of mine… ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2002, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/252 "2002-04-11T15:03:38Z")
(psssst - De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da was _ **DONE** _ :rolleyes: time for a cute little duet: Oh and love, I’ll be that fool for you I’m sure That you know I don’t mind And yes, you’ll be the only one 'Cause no one can deny This love I had inside And I’ll give it all to you My love, my ennnnd-lesssss loooove ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/253 "2002-04-12T07:46:53Z")
but, apparently, only for brief periods. Dilettantes. "Beach Baby Beach Baby Give me your hand give me something that I can remember Just like before we can walk by the shore in the moonlight Beach Baby Beach Baby There on the sand from July til the end of September Surfin was fun we’d be out in the sun every day…" ---
**Author:** ![TwistofFate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@TwistofFate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TwistofFate)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/254 "2002-04-12T10:23:06Z")
To kill this thread, and take the crown. Do you know where you’re going to? Do you like the things that life is showing you? ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/255 "2002-04-12T18:49:28Z")
“Dust in the wind… All we are is dust in the wind…” Dopers! The Shame! only 500 (or so) mentioned? Have ya’ll REALLY suppressed the memories (of the dreck that was)? ---
**Author:** ![John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/2bfe46/32.png) [@John\_Carter\_of\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Carter_of_Mars)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/256 "2002-04-12T19:41:06Z")
Since **happyheathen** insists: This one isn’t on The List[sup]TM[/sup] on page three, and I can’t recall another mention of it, so (Are you ready, dead teen dept?) On a weekend pass I wouldn’t have time To get home and marry that baby of mine So I went to the Chaplin and he authorized Me to send for my Ebony Eyes My Ebony Eyes is coming to me From out of the skies on flight twelve-oh-three… (Didn’t quit make it, did she?) From _Ebony Eyes_, by the Everly Bros. ---
**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/257 "2002-04-12T20:07:29Z")
Everybody Wang Chung tonight… Here come the judge, Here come the judge… ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/258 "2002-04-12T20:08:32Z")
Since the current list is too large for the hamster, just the ones since page 3’s list: Short People Slow Hand Let’s get together C’ome on Get Happy! (Partridge Family) I Touch Myself Sodomy Hair Last Kiss Honey Desiderata Deteriorata Take it Easy I Thank You I Would do Anything for Love (Meatloaf) Where the rubber meets the road (Meatloaf) I’d Lie for You (And That’s the Truth) (Meatloaf) All Revved Up With No Place To Go (Meatloaf) Top of the World (Carpenters) Superstar (Carpenters) (Long ago, and, oh, so far away) Close to You We’ve Only Just Begun The Rapper I Write the Songs Reach out in the Darkness, Rosie Please Come to Boston Song Sung Blue Arthur’s Theme Daddy Don’t You Walk so Fast Put the Lime in the Coconut Two Out of Three Sometimes When We Touch Oh What a Night Timothy Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey Big Bad John I Wish I Was Your Friend and Not Your Wife La Bamba At the Copa-Copacabana… Johnny Get Angry Little Deuce Coupe Life is a Toil Drop Kick Me Jesus, Through the Field Goal of Life You Must Think My Bed’s a Bus Stop, the Way You Come and Go Oh Yeah I am, I said Let 'Em In (Paul McCartney) Elusive Butterfly Watching Scotty Grow Boogie Fever (Sylvers) Wildflower Does Your Chewing Gum Lose its Flavor on the Bedpost Overnight? Winchester Cathedral Sky Pilot Three-Five-Zero-Zero Bohemian Rhapsody (Queen) My Baby Loves Love Indian Lake I Will Follow Him Wolf Crick Pass (C.W. McCall) Rocky He Liked To Feel It These Boots Were Made for Walkin’ Sweet Cream Ladies, Forward March Sunshine on My Shoulders The Way We Were. Rhapsody In The Rain Horse With No Name If You’re Going to San Francisco Sugar, Sugar Mercedes Benz Itchycoo Park (Small Faces) Abracadabra Put Your Hand in the Hand Doggie in the Window She Blinded Me With Science (Dolby Thomas) You Don’t Bring Me Flowers Ventura Highway The Games People Play Barbara Ann In My Room Honolulu Lulu How Can You Mend a Broken Heart Down by the River Their Hearts Were Full of Spring Take a Letter, Maria Wolverton Mountain Johnny Angel Sink the Bismarck The Battle of New Orleans Lipstick on Your Collar (Connie Francis) In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida (Iron Butterfly) Dawn (Four Seasons) Let’s Live for Today (Grassroots) Lonely Boy We gotta get you a woman Me and You and a Dog Named Boo Down in the Boondocks The Twist (Chubby Checker) The Jerk (The Larks) The Locomotion Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini The Name Game Jolene (Dolly Parton) Hello, It’s Me Send in the Clowns A Boy Named Sue Trains And Boats And Planes (Burt Bacharach) Delilah (Tom Jones) What’s New, Pussy Cat Bang The Drum All Day Mr. Custer (Larry Verne) Hooked on a Feeling Leader of the Pack (The Shangri-Las) First Of May (Bee Gees) Ruby Don’t Take Your Love To Town (Kenny Rogers) If I were a Carpenter Fat Bottomed Girls (Queen) Stars on '45 Smoke on the Water Don’t Take Your Guns to Town Tempted (Squeeze) Strokin’ (?) Endless Sleep Wayward Wind Black Denim Trousers/The Terror of Hi-way 101 Joy to the World (3 Dog Night) Endless Love Songs to Aging Children Come Beach Baby Do You Know Where You’re Going To (Theme From Mahogany) Tonight’s the Night Dust in the Wind Ebony Eyes (Everly Bros.) ---
**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/259 "2002-04-12T20:15:01Z")
Everybody Wang Chung tonight… Here come the judge, Here come the judge… ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/260 "2002-04-12T23:35:57Z")
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