# 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:** 24
**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 26, 2002, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/461 "2002-04-26T02:51:39Z")
The song you’re looking for is _If You Wanna Be Happy_ by Jimmy Soul. And as far as Terry and Susan Jacks are concerned, they are not brother and sister, they were husband and wife at the time. Makes you warm and fuzzy all over knowing that they MIGHT have reproduced their dreck, doesn’t it? :eek: Now, speaking of Soul, here is MEGADRECK from Hutch of Starsky and Hutch, David Soul: “Don’t give up on us baby…” AAAAAAAAH! “We’re sorry. the Doper you were connected to has run away screaming. Please try your post again, or call your moderator.” ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/462 "2002-04-26T03:08:42Z")
Good Id - now, wanna go for the ‘glitter and gleam’ one? “If you want it, here it is, come and get it. But you’d better hurry 'cause it’s going fast…” [sub]St. Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go I owe my soul to the comapny store…[/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 26, 2002, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/463 "2002-04-26T03:56:55Z")
I can tell my sister by the flowers in her eyes On the road in Shambala I can tell my brother by the flowers in his eyes On the road in Shambala Ah woo yeah, yay yay yay yay yeah Ah woo yeah, yay yay yay yay yeah How does your light shine in the halls of Shambala? How does your light shine in the halls of Shambala? Tell me how does your light shine in the halls of Shambala? Tell me how does your light shine in the halls of Shambala? ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/464 "2002-04-26T04:00:36Z")
Bobby Sherman created this dreck: _Julie, Julie, Julie do you love me Julie, Julie, Julie do you care_ And then we have a gentleman who obviously had a bike accident as a child–Eddie Holman _Hey There, Lonely Girl, Lonely girl Don’t you know this lonely boy loves you Ever since he broke your heart you seem so loss_ eek that one is bad ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/465 "2002-04-26T04:03:49Z")
It’s a curse… 😉 [sub]where you drink champagne and tastes just like coca-cola c-o-l-a, cola… if you haven’t heard the ‘coca-cola’ version, you have not heard the original [/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 26, 2002, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/466 "2002-04-26T04:26:10Z")
I bruise you You bruise me We both bruise too easily Too easily, to let it show I love you and that’s all I know. All my plans Are falling through All my plans depend on you Depend on you, to help them grow I love you and that’s all I know. When the singer’s gone, let the song go on. But the ending always comes at last Endings always come too fast They come too fast But they pass too slow I love you and that’s all I know. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/467 "2002-04-26T05:54:04Z")
kicking poor little Art… ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/468 "2002-04-26T10:27:27Z")
I could have sworn I heard the _Theme From the Greatest American Hero_ on top 40 radio at the time, so I still figure it’s fair game. In the meantime, just to keep my hand in, here’s one we may have missed: _Love lift us Up Where We Belong Where the eagles cry On a mountain high. Love lift us Up Where We Belong Far from the world below Up where the free winds blow_ What can I say – I’m a Christian. It’s my _duty_ to torture Heathens! 🙂 [tongue out of cheek] **happy heathen** , the more I see of you, the more I like you. CJ ---
**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 26, 2002, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/469 "2002-04-26T15:31:42Z")
in the word of the incandescent tavares: it only takes a minute girl to fall in love to FALL IN LOVE i know what a minute maid is, but whats a minute girl? ---
**Author:** ![meezer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9c0ed/32.png) [@meezer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/meezer)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/470 "2002-04-26T16:04:54Z")
Tighten Up (Archie Bell and the Drells) (sp?) Werewolf in London ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/471 "2002-04-26T17:11:39Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by meezer \* > \*\*Tighten Up (Archie Bell and the Drells) (sp?) > > Werewolf in London \*\* Lyrics, **Meezer** , we need lyrics! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/472 "2002-04-26T17:15:10Z")
“When we get behind closed doors, then she lets her hair hang down and she makes me glad that I’m a man . . . Oh no one knows what goes on behind closed doors!..” [sub]I dreamed I was there in Hillbilly Heaven, Oh, what a beautiful dream…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/473 "2002-04-26T17:19:59Z")
I remembered another story song that ended up being dreck to the nth degree: “Taxi” by Harry Chapin _And she said, “How are you Harry?” I said, “How are you Sue? Through the too many miles and the too little smiles I still remember you.” [snip] You see, she was gonna be an actress and I was gonna learn to fly. She took off to find the footlights, and I took off for the sky. And here, she’s acting happy, inside her handsome home. And me, I’m flying in my taxi, taking tips, and getting stoned, I go flying so high, when I’m stoned._ ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/474 "2002-04-26T17:32:07Z")
we will have to disagree (BTW, have you met Rico? I think you’d really like each other 😃 ) p.s. I also like “Sequel” - the update of “Taxi” It was a rainy night in 'Frisco I needed one more fare to make my night… p.p.s - there is no ‘16 Parkside Lane’ in San Francisco ---
**Author:** ![deb2world](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7cd45c/32.png) [@deb2world](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/deb2world)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/475 "2002-04-26T17:54:15Z")
Mr. **Happy** : That song is dreck. I don’t know if you were joking, but “sequel” to “Taxi” that you mentioned is the same song, I just left off the first stanza. If you notice I did not include “Same Old Lang Syne” by Dan Fogelberg. It is borderline dreck, but didn’t quite make it there but it was awfully close and some may think it sang it’s way into dreck _Met my old lover in a grocery store the snow was falling Christmas Eve_ [snip]\* We drank a toast to innocence We drank a toast to time Reliving in our eloquence Another auld lang syne\* [sub]You are just jealous cause Rico and me have included some really good dreck neener neener :)[/sub] deb knows too many bad songs 2world ---
**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 26, 2002, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/476 "2002-04-26T18:13:54Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by deb2world \* > \*\*Mr. **Happy** : That song is dreck. \*\* LOL - I just had a flashback of Robin Williams’ stage show where **Mr. Happy** was the name of his penis LMAO. Fogleberg? Great! I thank you for the music And your stories of the road I thank you for the freedom When it came my time to go – I thank you for the kindness And the times when you got tough And, papa, I don’t think I Said ‘I love you’ near enough – The leader of the band has died And his eyes are growing old But his blood runs through My instrument And his song is in my soul – My life has been a poor attempt To imitate the man I’m just a living legacy To the leader of the band I am the living legacy To the leader of the band. Deb - which beach are you “8 miles from?” Left or right coast? I grew up 6 blocks from the left coast and still live around there 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/477 "2002-04-26T18:49:58Z")
**Rico -** Pls see page 8 for “The Leader of the Band” Wake up and smell the roses, son! WAKE UP! p.s. - it is, at best, borderline dreck [sub]Tell the teacher we’re surfin’, Surfin’ USA[/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 26, 2002, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/478 "2002-04-26T18:59:27Z")
:eek: My only excuse is that the marvelous file that Happy typed out and I transferred to Excel (with all the songs that have been included here) so nice and organized and alphabetized is at home, not here at work…damn it 🙂 Oh well, let’s try this… It’s impossible to tell the sun To leave the sky, It’s just impossible. It’s impossible to ask a baby Not to cry, It’s just impossible. Can I hold you closer to me And not feel you going through me, But the second that I never think of you? Oh, how impossible. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/479 "2002-04-26T19:15:46Z")
Bittersweet memories that is all I’m taking with me. So, goodbye. Please, don’t cry. We both know I’m not what you, you need. And I will always love you. I will always love you. [sub]If you believe in forever, and not in just a one-night stand, If there’s a rock-and-roll heaven, you know they’ve got a hell of a band[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Mtgman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@Mtgman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mtgman)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2002, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/480 "2002-04-26T19:44:18Z")
I’m too young to know what the hell most of these are. I mean I’m just 25, I grew up in the 80’s ferchrissakes! But… I had a very unhappy collegehood with regards to music. I worked at a radio station on campus. Normally this wouldn’t be a big deal right? You figure, college radio station will play college student oriented music right? Right? RIGHT?!? No. See, some bastards in the communications department ran the thing and they had it licensed as a PUBLIC radio station which used University Facilities and whose staff was paid through the University, but which existed for the community, not University. So these same bastards appointed themselves Director of the Radio and Television Communications Department and Station Manager and got to decide what kind of music got played and what didn’t. Well, the first one was a terrible letch of a guy who had been married/divorced more times than Michael Jackson has had nosejobs and the second guy pretended to be respectable but had a “secret” life of womanizing and sneaking off to play “golf” for a week at a time. So you’ve got two guys, middle-aged, who get to decide what type of songs they’re going to play on what amounts to their own personal radio station. Guess what the station’s target demographic was? Women between the ages of 20 and 40. Mostly adult contemporary, but nothing under 15 years old and the sappier the better was their rule. Basically they wanted to be able to walk into the bar(and every bar without a DJ in this one-horse town played the station, oh, and no bars had DJs) and if some chick said “I love this song!” They could say something like “I’m glad you like it, I’ll tell them to play it more often if you like.” Bang, instant hook. We played cheesy make-out music pretty much nonstop. Do your worst people. I worked there for two and a half years. There is no bad song you can dredge up from your collective memories that will bother me, I’ve heard them all. I’ll even top you, I’ve actually recieved REQUESTS for things like Cat Stevens and the scars that left are impregnable. So there. Steven [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=23) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=25)