# "If you see Kay... **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 15, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271 "2000-02-15T02:34:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mangeorge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d78d45/32.png) [@mangeorge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mangeorge)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271/1 "2000-02-15T02:34:00Z")
…tell her I love her" On the “for unlawful carnal knowledge” thread this song popped into my head. Problem is, I can’t remember who recorded it. It was a popular concert song, one of those that everybody liked to sing along with. 80’s or early 90’s, I think. Sounds like something the **Tubes** would do, but I found nada on their site. Help! Peace, mangeorge * * * I only know two things; I know what I need to know And I know what I want to know Mangeorge, 2000 ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271/2 "2000-02-15T02:43:00Z")
It’s an April Wine song. I don’t remember when exactly it was recorded, however. * * * “I thought: opera, how hard can it be? Songs. Pretty girls dancing. Nice scenery. Lots of people handing over cash. Got to be better than the cut-throat world of yoghurt, I thought.” - Seldom Bucket ---
**Author:** ![melanietarrant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@melanietarrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melanietarrant)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271/3 "2000-02-15T02:45:00Z")
i was about 7 years old when i first heard that song. i didn’t have a clue what it meant and was singing it loudly (along with my 5 year old sister) my mom came charging in and slapped us both without explanition. she apologized later when she heard the song herself and told us what we were really saying. but i can’t answer your question. i never knew who sang it. * * * I’m pink therefore I’m Spam ---
**Author:** ![melanietarrant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/898d66/32.png) [@melanietarrant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melanietarrant)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 2:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271/4 "2000-02-15T02:47:00Z")
oh, the song is around 20 years old ---
**Author:** ![Globe-trotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cab0a1/32.png) [@Globe-trotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Globe-trotter)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271/5 "2000-02-15T02:48:00Z")
Ok, I did my homework. The song was recorded in 1982, and it’s from their CD “Power Play”. ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Thing\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_1)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271/6 "2000-02-15T15:17:00Z")
I do not know the song, but my mother told me about this bit from the Soupy Sales show. It sounds like the song writers were just recycling. John ---
**Author:** ![Guy\_Propski](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/5e9695/32.png) [@Guy\_Propski](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guy_Propski)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271/7 "2000-02-15T16:52:00Z")
Thing 1–the Soupy Sales story is an urban legend. ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 6:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271/8 "2000-02-16T06:53:00Z")
I don’t know if it was an original or not, but it was recorded by the Poster Children, on their 1991 “Daisychain Reaction” Album. Here’s a link to it on Tunes.com–give it a listen. [urlhttp://www.tunes.com/release/default.asp?from=&relid=132459 ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [February 16, 2000, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271/9 "2000-02-16T06:54:00Z")
dammit. try again… [http://www.tunes.com/release/default.asp?from=&relid=132459](http://www.tunes.com/release/default.asp?from=&relid=132459) ---
**Author:** ![Thing\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ce73a5/32.png) [@Thing\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing_1)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271/10 "2000-02-15T19:25:00Z")
OK. Let me rephrase it then. I don’t know the song but I recall my mother telling me the urban legend about the Soupy Sales show. It sounds to me like the song writers were just recycling. John ---
**Author:** ![Crystalguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dbc845/32.png) [@Crystalguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crystalguy)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2000, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-you-see-kay/7271/11 "2000-02-15T21:42:00Z")
Back in the mid to late 1940s, my obnoxious little chums and myself would sing this little ditty to embarass our little girl classmates—that was in about the third grade, as I recall. So it is a dern sight older than twenty years.