# 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:** 21
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/401 "2002-04-24T17:30:19Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by essvee \* > \*\*foe example: these two gems from tavares and gary wright, respectively. (lord, i hope these havent been done!)\ > > heaven > must be missing an angel > missing one angel, child > cuz yer here with me > right now (YECCH) > dreeeeeeeaaaaam weaver > i believe you can get me through the NI-HIGHT > > trivia: what mediocre seventies band was gary wright in before the immortality of ‘dream weaver’? \*\* Spooky tooth-You broke my heart so I broke your jaw. Next question? ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/402 "2002-04-24T17:42:05Z")
_Roses for Mama, today’s her birthday Roses for Mama, today’s her birthday_ This is the ultimate dreck about a person who goes into a flower shop to send some flowers to his mom but sees a little girl who is crying cause she doesn’t have enough money to buy her mama a rose for her birthday. The guy buys the rose and then watches as the little girl puts the flower on her mom’s grave. He then goes and gets his own mom a dozen roses and takes the flowers to his mom himself. **wah** ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/403 "2002-04-24T17:50:58Z")
Whew! I just spent 2 hours reading this thread, and I must say it has brought back a lot of (sometimes painful) memories. Submitted for your consideration: _Sit down Maggie I think I’ve got something to say to you._ Or _Lay lady lay, Lay across my big brass bed._ Or how about something from the absolute worst female singer ever: _He’s five feet two and he’s six feet four He fights with missiles and with spears He’s all of 31 and he’s only 17 He’s been a soldier for a thousand years_ ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/404 "2002-04-24T17:51:45Z")
mostly right, mermaid. possibly the least PC album title ever: you broke my heart so i busted your jaw. couldnt get away with that one today. ---
**Author:** ![ChiefScott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@ChiefScott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ChiefScott)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/405 "2002-04-24T18:12:12Z")
'Tis scary what I have wrought… ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/406 "2002-04-24T18:16:08Z")
Countin’ flowers on the wall That don’t bother me at all Playin’ solitaire ‘til dawn with a deck of fifty-one Smokin’ cigarettes and watchin’ Captain Kangaroo Now don’t tell me I’ve a-nothin’ to do… ---
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/407 "2002-04-24T20:11:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by happyheathen \* > **Countin’ flowers on the wall…** …My Grandpaw taught me how to live off the land, and his taught him to be a business man. But he was killed by a man with a switchblade knife, for 43-dollars my friend lost his life. Well I’d love to shoot some beechnut in that dudes eye, or shoot with my colt 45. 'Cause a country boy can survive, a country boy can survi, vie i ive, i i ive, i i iii i i ive… ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 8:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/408 "2002-04-24T20:46:17Z")
For this one, let us all put on out cheerleader uniform and chant: _Hey Mickey your so fine, your so fine you blow my mine – HEY MICKEY_ ---
**Author:** ![Bumbazine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bumbazine/32/362_2.png) [@Bumbazine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bumbazine)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/409 "2002-04-24T20:50:44Z")
> [@](#): > > OK, let’s wallow in C/W Dreck… That’s a mighty big target you’re a-toting thar son. _Stand By Your Man_ 'nuff said \*Would Jesus Wear A Rolex On His Television Show? You done Stomped Upon My Heart And Mashed That Sucker Flat.\* Sorry, I don’t remember any lyrics to those last two. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/410 "2002-04-24T20:59:59Z")
chief! wondering if and when youd check in again. country deserves a thread all its own. i THOUGHT this thread was about cheesy 70s numbers… ---
**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 24, 2002, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/411 "2002-04-24T21:47:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by essvee \* > \*\* > > country deserves a thread all its own. i THOUGHT this thread was about cheesy 70s numbers… \*\* I THINK the original “ground rules” were that the song had to make the top 40, after Elvis’s “Heartbreak Hotel”. I say that having posted a country one myself. It was too tempting! Country would be a gold mine of this stuff. But sticking with the spirit: “Sometimes we stand hand in hand by the sea and gaze at the earth and the sky I turn to you and you melt in my arms, there we are Darling only you and I And I say to myself, it’s wonderful, wonderful, oh so wonderful my love.” “Wonderful, Wonderful”, by Johnny Mathis ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/412 "2002-04-24T22:29:55Z")
Released since 1955 Over 1,000,000 sold at retail Yes, C/W probably does warrent a separate thread (especially since _I_ don’t know many. Also, we have been avoiding disco - another thread-in-waiting Maybe leave this one to pop/rock/r&b? “Blue, navy blue, I’m as blue as I can be My steady boy said ‘Ship Ahoy’ And joined the Naaa-aa–veee” (have no idea who did it - don’t want to know) [sub]I’ll be nice and NOT point out that ‘C/W dreck’ is redundant…[/sub] ---
**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 24, 2002, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/413 "2002-04-24T23:02:57Z")
Chances are cause I wear a silly grin The moment you come into view Chances are you think That I am in love with you Just because my composure slowly slips The moment your lips meet mine Chances are You think my heart till valentine as a keyboard player in a c/w band, I won’t dignify Heathen’s last remark with a witty comment of my own… ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/414 "2002-04-24T23:35:05Z")
_oh,your mama don’t dance and your daddy don’t rock and roll_ ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/415 "2002-04-25T00:33:50Z")
oooh! ooh! i got another one. hot line, hot line calling on the hot line, for your love, for your love (WHOO!)… i asked the CIA if it was OK to use their private phone… i dont care what anyone does, but IM stickin to cheesy 70s numbers. that was the sylvers, by the way, they did ‘boogie fever’ as well. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/416 "2002-04-25T00:48:52Z")
im on a roll. cant believe no one posted this one. In a little while from now If I’m not feeling any less sour I promise myself to treat myself And visit a nearby tower And climbing to the top will throw myself off In an effort to make it clear to whoever What it’s like when you’re shattered Left standing in the lurch at a church alone again (naturally) by the immortal one, gilbert o sullivan more! Every time I move I lose…when I look I’m in And every time I turn around…I’m back in love I get mixed emotions…it’s the way my feelings flow Excuse me I’m only human…sometimes I…I just don’t know Every time I move I lose…when I look I’m in And every time I turn around…I’m back in love again (do do do do do…back in love again…do do do do do) Back in love this song always cracks me up. i mean, that must be tough to go through. how does he keep em all straight? LTD is the name of the band. someone mentioned the extremely talented hamilton, joe frank, and reynolds (dont pull your love out). ever notice the lead singer had a speech impediment? in their other smash hit, he sings: baby baby fawwin in love im fawwin in love again pleanty more where that came from. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/417 "2002-04-25T00:56:07Z")
“One less bell to answer One less egg to fry One less man to pick up after I should be happy But all I do is cry…” [sub]I know you’re workin’ for the C-I-A They wouldn’t have you in the ma-fi-a Why can’t we be friends? [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/418 "2002-04-25T01:02:13Z")
“One less bell to answer One less egg to fry One less man to pick up after I should be happy But all I do is cry…” [sub]I know you’re workin’ for the C-I-A They wouldn’t have you in the ma-fi-a Why can’t we be friends? [/sub] ---
**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 25, 2002, 1:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/419 "2002-04-25T01:07:45Z")
“I got lumps in my throat when I saw her comin’ down the asile I got the wiggles in my knees when she looked at me and sweetly smiled There she is again standin’ over by the record machine Lookin’ like a model on the cover of a magazine She’e too cute to be a minute over 17” “Little Queenie” by Chuck Berry Originally posted by **happyheathen** : “I’ll be nice and NOT point out that ‘C/W dreck’ is redundant…” One more remark like that, mister, and I’ll be forced to post Kitty Wells’s “Mommy For A Day” in this thread. THEN you’ll be sorry… ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/420 "2002-04-25T01:09:11Z")
This one is applicable cause it was in a commercial in the '70s. _Who wears short short We wear short shorts Girls wear short shorts if you dare wear short shorts…_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=20) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=22)