# Looking for song title/artist **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 2, 1999, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030 "1999-09-02T18:11:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/1 "1999-09-02T18:11:00Z")
All I remember is “and I cry like a baby, in the darkness of my room.” It is definitely not the “Cry Like a Baby” song by the Box Tops. I don’t even know when it originally came out, probably late 60’s or early 70’s. ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/2 "1999-09-02T18:21:00Z")
Can you hum a few bars? * * * “non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem” – William of Ockham ---
**Author:** ![Eutychus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Eutychus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eutychus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/3 "1999-09-02T19:55:00Z")
Somebody shoot me for remembering this, but I believe it’s called ‘Cry Like a Baby’ by (cringe) Bobby Sherman. * * * Saint Eutychus [www.disneyshorts.org](http://www.disneyshorts.org) ---
**Author:** ![AuraSeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c2a13f/32.png) [@AuraSeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuraSeer)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 8:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/4 "1999-09-02T20:14:00Z")
Judging by that attitude, should I be happy that I have never heard of Bobby Sherman? ---
**Author:** ![pluto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f08c70/32.png) [@pluto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pluto)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 1999, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/5 "1999-09-02T20:30:00Z")
AuraSeer – I would say, yes, you’re fortunate, but judge for yourself: [http://www.bobbysherman.com/](http://www.bobbysherman.com/) * * * “non sunt multiplicanda entia praeter necessitatem” – William of Ockham ---
**Author:** ![timmar68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/6 "1999-09-03T04:04:00Z")
OMG, Pluto! My sister positively WORSHIPPED Bobby Sherman when we were growing up (had a lunchbox and everything!). i just e-mailed her that link! I can’t wait until she reads it and see her eraction! * * * MaryAnn Sometimes life is so great you just gotta muss up your hair and quack like a duck! ---
**Author:** ![timmar68](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/97f17d/32.png) [@timmar68](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/timmar68)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/7 "1999-09-03T04:05:00Z")
Duh! What’s an eraction (it looks naughty, whatever it is!)? Of course I meant “reaction”. * * * MaryAnn Sometimes life is so great you just gotta muss up your hair and quack like a duck! ---
**Author:** ![mr\_john](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8baadc/32.png) [@mr\_john](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mr_john)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/8 "1999-09-03T06:16:00Z")
so thats what thats what all the teeny boppers were getting from Bobby Sherman! I always wondered what they were called. Mary ,I’d like to see it too! lech lech * * * “Pardon me while I have a strange interlude.”-Marx ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 11:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/9 "1999-09-03T11:53:00Z")
I remember playing Bobby Sherman’s record\* that came on the back of the Raisin Bran box. You cut it out, put it on the turntable, and voila! Ahhh, the good old days. \*For those who have never seen a record, it was black, circular, and it spinned on a thing called a “turntable.” ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/10 "1999-09-03T11:56:00Z")
Speaking of artist/titles, there’s been a song that’s been played ad nauseum around here, but radio stations have quit telling you artists and titles anymore. It has the words: “Does anyone here/hate everyone here/ for doing just like I do.” or something like that. Who is the artist and title? Anyone? ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/11 "1999-09-03T13:13:00Z")
Thanks for the info. I did some digging and Bobby Sherman (gulp!) is indeed the culprit. ---
**Author:** ![Falcon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/49beb7/32.png) [@Falcon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Falcon)\ **Post date:** [September 3, 1999, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/12 "1999-09-03T15:26:00Z")
Lisa - It sounds like “Back 2 Good” by Matchbox 20. ---
**Author:** ![nayaran](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e68b1a/32.png) [@nayaran](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nayaran)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 1999, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/13 "1999-09-05T16:03:00Z")
Lisa: I think Falcon’s right about “Back 2 Good”, unless there is another song out there with those lyrics. * * * “Of course, that’s just my opinion; I could be wrong.”–Dennis Miller ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 1999, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/14 "1999-09-05T19:21:00Z")
Thanks for the song title. The words “back to good” are in the song, so that makes sense. ---
**Author:** ![Poto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7ab992/32.png) [@Poto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poto)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 1999, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-song-title-artist/3030/15 "1999-09-05T23:37:00Z")
Bobby Sherman is a security guard at a Hollywood studio these days, saw it on MTV. Now I have a line, “two dollars in jukebox, my whole life savings, one nickel at a time.” Artist?Country, Probably 1950s. NOT Eddie Rabbitt with a song starting the same way.