# 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:** 31
**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:** [May 6, 2002, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/601 "2002-05-06T04:38:27Z")
**"While we await clarification on that last entry…"** “What’s Your name?”, by Don and Juan. Entered the top ten in January, 1962. What could be more clear? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/602 "2002-05-06T05:00:17Z")
See your dentist after this one - cavities guaranteed… “I hear the cottonwoods Whispering above Tammy! Tammy! Tammy’s in love!..” ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/603 "2002-05-06T05:05:45Z")
See your dentist after this one - cavities guaranteed… “I hear the cottonwoods Whispering above Tammy! Tammy! Tammy’s in love!..” ---
**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:** [May 6, 2002, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/604 "2002-05-06T11:21:04Z")
😃 😃 ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/605 "2002-05-06T18:07:04Z")
It ain’t me who double-posts. Skin the hampster! ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/606 "2002-05-06T22:48:47Z")
**happyheathen** , sometimes I think you’ve been sneaking a look at my old 45s. You are one scary mamma-jamma. Then again, I could say that about the rest of you guys. As Cecil once said, the Teeming Millions have no shame. Okay, enough of that… * * * “Hey ramblin’ boy, what dontcha settle down? [insert name of big city here] ain’t your kinda town, There ain’t no gold and there ain’t nobody like meeeee! I’m the number-one fan, of **The Man from Tenessee**.” * * * “Sha-la-la-la-la-la, my lady In the sun with your hair undone I remember the days, laughing and a-hidin’ Chasin’ love, out on **Thunder Island!** ” “Do-do-dip, do-do-dip, do-do-do-dip-do…” * * * from the Osmonds: “Doooowwwwn by the Lazy River!” “So c’mon along! It won’t take long So bring your git-TAR and sing your song!” * * * from the pen of Tommy James, performed by Alive & Kickin’: “Hold on, a-just a little bit **Tighter** now babaaayy I love you so much and I can’t let go, no no no!” * * * Herman’s Hermits have been mentioned. “Henry VIII” was kinda an obvious choice, IMHO. Try this: “ **No Milk Today** , My love has gone away.” “Now all that’s left is a place dark ‘n’ lonely, A terraced house in a mean street, back of town.” * * * Kinks: Hey, _Lola_ is a great song. Try this one, from the same album: “I’m an **Apeman** I’m an Ape-Apeman Oh, I’m an Apeman I’m a King-Kong Man, I’m a voodoo man, Oh, I’m an Apeman I don’t feel safe in this world no more, I don’t wanna die in a nuclear war” [I forgot the next line] * * * and of course, the king(s) of 70s cheese…Three Dog Night! “I can tell my brother, from the flowers in his eyes I’m on the road to **Shambala** ” “Well, I’ve **Never Been to Heaven**. But I’ve been to Oklahoma. Though they tell me I was born there, But I really don’t remembahh In Oklahoma Not Arizona What does it matter?” Actually, wayyyy too many to mention… ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/607 "2002-05-06T23:32:49Z")
OK, I can’t yell about dupes at this point - a new list would choke the hampster… [quote] \*\* “Hey ramblin’ boy, what dontcha settle down? [insert name of big city here] ain’t your kinda town, There ain’t no gold and there ain’t nobody like meeeee! I’m the number-one fan, of **The Man from Tenessee**.” \*\* [quote] “Please Come To Boston” - done [quote] \*\* from the pen of Tommy James, performed by Alive & Kickin’: “Hold on, a-just a little bit **Tighter** now babaaayy I love you so much and I can’t let go, no no no!” \*\* [quote] I was going to do this one… Who’s peeking at WHO’s records? > [@](#): > > \*\* > and of course, the king(s) of 70s cheese…Three Dog Night! > > “I can tell my brother, from the flowers in his eyes > I’m on the road to **Shambala** ” > > “Well, I’ve **Never Been to Heaven**. > But I’ve been to Oklahoma. > Though they tell me I was born there, > But I really don’t remembahh > In Oklahoma > Not Arizona > What does it matter?” > > \*\* “Shambala” - done “Never Been to Spain” - done p.s. so has “Joy To The World” but, all in all, an excellent entry! Now, back to 70’s… “Am I wrong to fall so deeply in love with you Knowing I got a wife and two little children depending on me too And am I wrong to hunger for the gentleness of your touch Knowing I got three people at home who need me just as much And are you wrong to give your love to a married man And am I wrong trying to hold on to the best thing I ever had If loving you is wrong I don’t wanna be right If loving you is wrong I don’t wanna be right…” ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/608 "2002-05-07T01:50:22Z")
606 posts, 13 pages, and we still haven’t run out of dreck! I could be wrong, but I think I’ve got a couple we missed: \*So I’ll live my life in a dream world For the rest of my days Just you and me walkin’ hand in hand in a wistful memory. Oh, I guess that’s all that it will ever be. Oh, It’s Sad To Belong To Someone Else When the right one comes along. Yes, it’s Sad To Belong To Someone Else When the right one comes along. \* And, keeping up my bi-lingual tradition on this thread: _Di me. Solamente di me Como olvidar mis Presentimentos de amor_ AKA _Feelings, Nothing more than feelings Trying to forget my feelings of love._ I also came across what I still think is classical drek, at least based on the lyrics, although it’s too old to qualify for this thread. First, a bit of party music: (Translated from Italian) _Let’s have a party, happy and hearty I’m in the mood for laughter and wine._ And a “I really need to get some therapy” song: _Beat me, beat me, dear Masetto Beat your poor despised Zerlina_ This is cheating big-time – the source for both of them is Mozart’s _Don Giovanni_, but when I saw both sets of lyrics, I knew they had to go in this thread. CJ Who expects to be excoriated by Happy Heathen for this! ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/609 "2002-05-07T02:14:46Z")
we can _MAYBE_ give you “It’s Sad To Belong To Someone Else”, BUT - you know the rules - pop/rock/R&B, post-1955, no dupes, no novelty songs, 1,000,000 sold at retail (or, generally, Billboard TOP 100). Album cuts considered on a case-by-case basis. A translation IS a dupe We won’t discuss Mozart. Don’t let this happen again… Love Always, hh ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 5:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/610 "2002-05-07T05:51:31Z")
More teen angst… "White on white, lace on satin Blue velvet ribbons on her bouquet White on white, lace on satin My little angel is getting married today I’ll be waiting to kiss the bride when her name is new Standing oh, so close to her silently saying “I do” I’ll be holding back my tears till she’s gone away 'Cause she’ll belong to someone else when the organ starts to play…" ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/611 "2002-05-07T19:05:32Z")
“The first time ever I saw your face I thought the sun rose in your eyes And the moon and stars were the gifts you gave To the dark and the empty skies, my love, To the dark and the empty skies.” Too bad we can’t list full lyrics - it’s hard to capture the putridness of this one in a snippet… [sub]Walk a mile in my shoes…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Caricci](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Caricci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caricci)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/612 "2002-05-07T19:18:20Z")
When there’s no getting over that rainbow. When my smallest of dreams won’t come true. I can take all the madness the world has to give, But I won’t last a day without you. Sadly, this was my first dance song at my wedding - in 1995. I was just kidding about choosing it but my husband thought I meant it. Talk about talking yourself into a corner. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/613 "2002-05-07T19:23:53Z")
“Pick up your feet, Just take your place in the **Driver’s Seat**.” Ah, Sniff and the Tears… I can’t believe three-quarter of the songs I posted where already done (and I did look, honest!) I mean, I did see “Joy To The World,” but not the other two TDN songs… ---
**Author:** ![zorch](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/50afbb/32.png) [@zorch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zorch)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2002, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/614 "2002-05-07T22:48:20Z")
And then there’s “Bertha Lou” by Clint Miller, '58… Bertha Lou, Bertha Lou. She wears her hair in a poodle cut. She’s walkin’ down the street like a you-know-what. Your know you’re lookin’ oh so neat, You tickle me from my head to my atha-leet-a-feet, Hey, hey Bertha Lou. I want to conjugate with you. You know my blood is runnin’ wild, And you know you ain’t no child. When you do what you doooo, oooo, oooo…Bertha Lou! [Just be thankful I can’t remember the whole thing.] ---
**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:** [May 7, 2002, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/615 "2002-05-07T23:44:07Z")
**happyheathen**! How can you call “The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face” drek? It’s Booootiful! Here’s my revenge: Unauthorized country(But YOU did post “Oakie From Muskogee”, 'member?) Also, it’s too cool a few lines not to be put in a 600+post thread: "I grew up a’ dreamin’ of bein’ a cowboy Lovin’ the cowboy ways Persuin’ the lives of my high ridin’ heroes I burned up my childhood days Pickin’ up hookers instead of my pen I let the words of my youth fade away Old worn out saddles and old worn out memories With no-one and no place to stay" “MY Heroes Have Always Been Cowboys”, by Waylon, Willie & Co. ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/616 "2002-05-08T00:03:49Z")
Dear Martian: You sneak in Waylon AND Willie, and can’t come up with anything dreckier than THAT? Now, lets us never speak of this again 😛 [sub]Did he ever return?, No, he never returned; And his fate may be unlearned…[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/617 "2002-05-08T01:40:00Z")
and the occasional _ **GOOD SONG** _ (you KNOW who you are!) in this thread. Especially, we need more post-1979 material! Celine Dion comes to mind, as does Duran-Duran… in the meantime (in-between time, ain’ we…) _cough_ sorry, I get carried away sometimes 🙂 “Jam up and jelly tight My, my, my baby Now you’re outta sight Jam up and jelly tight You look a little naughty But you’re so polite Jam up and jelly tight You won’t say you will but There’s a chance that you might” ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/618 "2002-05-08T02:11:28Z")
**Happy Heathen** , just a couple of points of order before I dip into the dreck. I haven’t counted any of the translations I’ve tossed in – I just couldn’t resist 'em. I also know full well Mozart doesn’t count, but I had to toss those in as well. Back to the subject at hand. You asked for Duran Duran? _It’s Been Awhile_ (excuse me – some current Top 40 dreck slipped in), but _Travelin a line Of discord and wine Highlander wine I’m after you I smell like I sound I’m lost and I’m found and I’m Hungry Like the Wolf_ (I could be wrong about the lyrics – articulation wasn’t exactly their strong suit) Oh yes – I think this may have been sung by Dionne Warwick: _Reach Out And Touch Somebody’s hand Make this world a better place If you can_ One sung by Whitney Houston: _I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess insi-i-ide. Give them a sense of pride To make it easier . . . Because The Greatest Love of All Is happening to me I found The Greatest Love of All Inside of me_\* \*Insert double (or triple) entendre of your choice Finally, a couple by Lover Boy _Everybody’s Workin’ For the Weekend. Everybody needs a new romance. Everybody’s Workin’ For the Weekend. Everybody needs a second chance. You want a piece of my heart You better start from the sta-art You wanna be in the show Come on baby let’s go!_ And finally, _I was born to please Even on my knees Makin’ love to whoever I please I Gotta Do It My Way Or no way at all_ Man that song brings back good memories!! Oh yes, since the rest of you are thinking of it, _And now, the end is near And so I face the final curtain My friend, I’ll say it clear I’ll state my case of which I’m certain I’ve lived a life that’s full I’ve travelled each and every byway And more, much more than this I Did It My Way_ CJ _I was born to type Lyrics way too ripe Writing drek to whoever I please I gotta post it my way Or no way at all!_ ---
**Author:** ![Siege](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dbc845/32.png) [@Siege](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siege)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/619 "2002-05-08T02:15:36Z")
**Happy Heathen** , just a couple of points of order before I dip into the dreck. I haven’t counted any of the translations I’ve tossed in – I just couldn’t resist 'em. I also know full well Mozart doesn’t count, but I had to toss those in as well. Back to the subject at hand. You asked for Duran Duran? _It’s Been Awhile_ (excuse me – some current Top 40 dreck slipped in), but _Travelin a line Of discord and wine Highlander wine I’m after you I smell like I sound I’m lost and I’m found and I’m Hungry Like the Wolf_ (I could be wrong about the lyrics – articulation wasn’t exactly their strong suit) Oh yes – I think this may have been sung by Dionne Warwick: _Reach Out And Touch Somebody’s hand Make this world a better place If you can_ One sung by Whitney Houston: _I believe the children are our future Teach them well and let them lead the way Show them all the beauty they possess insi-i-ide. Give them a sense of pride To make it easier . . . Because The Greatest Love of All Is happening to me I found The Greatest Love of All Inside of me_\* \*Insert double (or triple) entendre of your choice Finally, a couple by Lover Boy _Everybody’s Workin’ For the Weekend. Everybody needs a new romance. Everybody’s Workin’ For the Weekend. Everybody needs a second chance. You want a piece of my heart You better start from the sta-art You wanna be in the show Come on baby let’s go!_ And finally, _I was born to please Even on my knees Makin’ love to whoever I please I Gotta Do It My Way Or no way at all_ Man that song brings back good memories!! Oh yes, since the rest of you are thinking of it, _And now, the end is near And so I face the final curtain My friend, I’ll say it clear I’ll state my case of which I’m certain I’ve lived a life that’s full I’ve travelled each and every byway And more, much more than this I Did It My Way_ CJ _I was born to type Lyrics way too ripe Writing drek to whoever I please I gotta post it my way Or no way at all!_ ---
**Author:** ![happyheathen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b5e925/32.png) [@happyheathen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/happyheathen)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2002, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975/620 "2002-05-08T04:01:11Z")
(but Diana Ross did “Reach Out And Touch (Somebody’s Hand)”) now, for minimalism: “Heheheheheheee Wipe oooout!” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=30) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-life-is-a-rock-and-the-radio-rolls-me/100975.md?page=32)