# 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:** 23
**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, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/441 "2002-04-25T17:38:55Z")
Let me add to the list some modern day dreck. “Lullabye” by Shawn Mullins _She grew up with the children of the stars In the Hollywood hills and the boulevard_ [more talking dreck] [sing]\* I sing Everythings gonna be all right, rockabye,rockabye\* Or “Take on Me” by aha _Take on me, take on me, I’ll be gone take on me take me on_ etc. ---
**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 25, 2002, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/442 "2002-04-25T17:53:31Z")
Don’t you forget about me Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t Don’t you forget about me Will you stand above me Look my way, never love me Rain keeps falling Rain keeps falling Down, down, down Will you recognize me Call my name or walk on by Rain keeps falling Rain keeps falling Down, down, down naaaaa na na nanananaaaaa…nanananaaaaa…hey jude… (Just to piss Happy off) 😛 ---
**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, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/443 "2002-04-25T18:05:18Z")
“Thank you (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” ---
**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, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/444 "2002-04-25T18:06:37Z")
No Doubt has a song out now that is pure 100% dreck: All the boys go Hey baby hey baby hey All the girls go hey baby hey baby hey [ad nauseum] ---
**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 25, 2002, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/445 "2002-04-25T18:15:29Z")
Just seventeen Everything that you’ve seen It’s all there in her eyes So many years of her poor mama’s tears and Her Daddy’s sweet lies There’s nobody home Mary-Anne’s alone Almost fully grown And worrying the why’s Jimmy’s been down He’s been out and around and He knows where its at Love to be good if he thought that he could But it isn’t like that He don’t make mistakes What he makes he takes Jimmy gets all the breaks 'Cause he knows how Chorus: Jimmy loves Mary-Anne Jimmy wants to be a man Jimmy loves Mary-Anne She thinks it’s alright done by “Looking Glass” - their only other hit besides _Brandy (You’re A Fine Girl)_. ---
**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, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/446 "2002-04-25T18:15:30Z")
eary feminist (still dreck, but it gets the ol’ ‘heart-in-the-right-place’ award) “You don’t own me, I’m not just one of your many toys You don’t own me, don’t say I can’t go with other boys And don’t tell me what to do And don’t tell me what to say And please, when I go out with you Don’t put me on display, 'cause You don’t own me, don’t try to change me in any way You don’t own me, don’t tie me down 'cause I’d never stay Oh, I don’t tell you what to say I don’t tell you what to do So just let me be myself That’s all I ask of you I’m young and I love to be young I’m free and I love to be free To life my life the way I want To say and do whatever I please…” ---
**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/447 "2002-04-25T18:51:01Z")
Chantilly lace and a pretty face, A ponytail a-hangin’ down, A wigglin’ walk… ---
**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, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/448 "2002-04-25T19:32:43Z")
“Oh, goodbye cruel world, I’m off to join the circus Gonna be a broken-hearted clown Paint my face with a good-for-nothin’ smile 'cause a mean, fickle woman turned my whole world upside down” Goodbye, Cruel World James Darren ---
**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, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/449 "2002-04-25T19:40:02Z")
I would climb any mountain, sail across the stormy sea If that’s what it takes me baby, to show how much you mean to me And I guess that it’s just the woman in you, that brings out the man in me I know I can’t help myself, you’re all in the world to me It feels like the first time, feels like the very first time It feels like the first time, it feels like the very first time I have waited a lifetime, spent my time so foolishly But now that I found you, together we’ll make hist-ory And I know that it must be the woman in you, that brings out the man in me I know I can’t help myself, you’re all my eyes can see And it feels like the first time, like it never did before Feels like the first time, like we’ve opened up the door Feels like the first time, like it never will again, never again [sub]But you keep me hangin’ on…[/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, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/450 "2002-04-25T19:46:46Z")
\*\*Rico- \*\* dear, sweet, Rico “Jimmy Loves Mary-Anne” has been done. sorry. [sub]Desperado, why don’t you come to your senses…\*\* 😛 ---
**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, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/451 "2002-04-25T20:07:44Z")
Hey, well I’m the friendly stranger In the black sedan Oh won’t you hop inside my car? I got pictures, got candy, I am a lovable man I’d like to take you to the nearest star I’m your vehicle baby I’ll take you anywhere you wanna go I’m your vehicle woman By now I’m sure you know That I love ya (love you) Need ya (need you) I want to, got to have you child Great God in heaven, you know I love you [sub]Got to get back to that Sugar Shack…[/sub] ---
**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, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/452 "2002-04-25T20:12:30Z")
Mr Happyheathen, I respectfully object to your song “you don’t own me”. I do not consider dreck a song that makes a social statement especially at a time when change happened. _You don’t say you need me you don’t sing me love songs your don’t bring me flowers anymore_ ---
**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, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/453 "2002-04-25T20:20:18Z")
This one might not be dreck, it might be more suited to creapy stalking songs. _Every move you make, every breathe you take, every claim you make, I’ll be watching you_ ---
**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, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/454 "2002-04-25T20:49:22Z")
**deb2world** “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” has been done “Every Step…” isn’t dreck. the following, however, is: "This bus is awful cold; we’ve gone so many miles. God please help me go to sleep and forget him for awhile. I know it’s not his fault, I’ve known it all along. I was the one that trusted him - that’s where I went wrong. This old road I don’t know where it leads, And I don’t care 'coz it’s not hard for me to see That when it ends, there’ll be nothing there for me, 'Coz the only thing I care about - I’ve got to live without." That’s Where I Went Wrong Poppy Family - their companion piece to Which Way You Going, Billy vocals by Susan Jacks ---
**Author:** ![Algernon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a183cd/32.png) [@Algernon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algernon)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2002, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/455 "2002-04-25T22:10:08Z")
:: **Algernon** , head in hands, muttering…:: I spend an unholy amount of time reading this thread, and can only come up with a couple that haven’t already been mentioned. \*Well the South side of Chicago Is the baddest part of town And if you go down there You better just beware Of a man named Leroy Brown Now Leroy more than trouble You see he stand 'bout six foot four All the downtown ladies call him Treetop Lover All the men just call him Sir And it’s bad, bad Leroy Brown The baddest man in the whole damned town Badder than old King Kong And meaner than a junkyard dog\* and \*I got a song been on my mind And the tune can be sung and the words all rhyme Deedle-ee deet deet deet deet deet deet deet dee dee Though it don’t say much and it won’t offend If you sing it in school then they’re liable to send you home Never knowing what you’re showin’ Think you’re growin’ your own tea Good lord! Drop your shrink and stop your drinkin’ Crunchy granola’s neat Sing it out Alright Da da da da Da da da da da Dee dee dee dum\* And the worst part? I find I actually _like_ most of the drek mentioned… oh the embarrassment of it all. There are a couple of borderline novelty songs not yet mentioned, like _Snoopy and the Red Baron_ and _Love Potion #9_, but, in the spirit of things, I decided not to mention them. ~grin~ ---
**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, 11:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/456 "2002-04-25T23:00:02Z")
I looked thru the list of songs and can’t believe no one has mentioned these yet. _don’t worry, be happy do do do do do do do do do don’t worry, be happy_ Or we have Randy Newman’s _I love LA! We love it! Century Blvd., Santa Monica Blvd., We love it!_ ---
**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, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/457 "2002-04-25T23:02:58Z")
"It’s all over but the glitter and gleem, In the good old rock and roll. We can still hear a guitar sing, And the singer singing his soul. “What happened to the peppermint twist and the mini-skirt?..” I have this on tape since ca 1970, can’t find it on Google, have no idea. male vocalist, bland, maybe a one-shot? ---
**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, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/458 "2002-04-25T23:32:25Z")
was susan jacks related to the immortal one, terry jacks, by any chance? heres a gooder i wanna keeeeep on lovin you cuz its the only thing i wanna doooo-OO I dont wanna SLEEP I just wanna KEEP ON lovin you… (retch, kaff kaff, hurl) i remember when you couldnt get away from that shit on the radio. 80 or 81. ---
**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, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/459 "2002-04-25T23:44:33Z")
Susan and Terry sibs? {shudder} quite possibly. **YOU** do the research - I’m chicken… and what was the title of that cute little tune? and now… “If you want to be happy for the rest of your life Never make a pretty woman your wife. So, from my personal point of view, Get an ugly girl to marry you” (Jamaican beat, no less) “I’ve been cheated. Been mistreated. When will I-I-I-I be loved?” [sub]It’s the little old lady from Pasadena…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Mona\_Lott](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ee7513/32.png) [@Mona\_Lott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mona_Lott)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/460 "2002-04-26T00:49:43Z")
When I was young I never needed anyone. And making love was just for fun. Those days are gone. All by myself, don’t want to be All by myself. Happyheathen, I am in awe of your musical knowledge. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=22) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=24)