# Song from about 1974...title?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 23, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-about-1974-title/805168 "2017-12-23T21:51:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-about-1974-title/805168/1 "2017-12-23T21:51:24Z")
This song may have the title “Let the Show Go On,” but I don’t know… It has a verse beginning, “an enormous crowd of people, they’re all after my blood!” Any ideas? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-about-1974-title/805168/2 "2017-12-23T21:56:50Z")
_The Show Must Go On_ by **Three Dog Night** [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xtAlzo_pqys/hqdefault.jpg "Three Dog Night - The Show Must Go On (1974)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtAlzo_pqys) ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-about-1974-title/805168/3 "2017-12-23T21:57:43Z")
The Show Must Go On by Three Dog Night, written by Leo Sayer, I think?? ---
**Author:** ![Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/5daacb/32.png) [@Ellis\_Aponte\_Jr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellis_Aponte_Jr)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-about-1974-title/805168/4 "2017-12-23T22:00:17Z")
Beaten to the punch ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-about-1974-title/805168/5 "2017-12-23T22:05:38Z")
Starts out with a classic carnival calliope tune which vastly predates the song itself. ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2017, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-about-1974-title/805168/6 "2017-12-23T22:13:50Z")
Thanks to all. 🙂 My younger brother recorded some stuff in 1974 and 1975 on a 40-minute cassette, but he didn’t tell me all the titles. ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-about-1974-title/805168/7 "2017-12-24T01:30:10Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > The Show Must Go On by Three Dog Night, written by Leo Sayer, I think?? Correct, > [@](#): > > “The Show Must Go On” is a song co-written by Leo Sayer and David Courtney and first recorded by Sayer. It was released in the United Kingdom in 1973, {…}[RIGHT][CITE](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Show_Must_Go_On_%28Leo_Sayer_song%29)[/RIGHT] I’ve wondered if these lines were a call-out to Leon Russel, _Walkin’ on the wire, high wire_ “Tight Rope” from 1972 and _Far away from this masquerade_ “This Masquerade” also from 72? CMC fnord! ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-about-1974-title/805168/8 "2017-12-24T02:31:56Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > Starts out with a classic carnival calliope tune which vastly predates the song itself. Entrance Of The Gladiators, by Julius Fucik. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-about-1974-title/805168/9 "2017-12-24T04:52:09Z")
> [@crowmanyclouds](#): > > Correct,I’ve wondered if these lines were a call-out to Leon Russel, > _Walkin’ on the wire, high wire_ > “Tight Rope” from 1972 and > _Far away from this masquerade_ > “This Masquerade” also from 72? > > CMC fnord! On a side note, I remember hearing a few DJs in the 70s accidentally refer to a Leo Sayer song as being by Leon Russell. For comparison with the 3DN version, here’s [Leo Sayer’s original](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwW2pQaCc1Y). ---
**Author:** ![dougie\_monty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/439d5e/32.png) [@dougie\_monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dougie_monty)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2017, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/song-from-about-1974-title/805168/10 "2017-12-24T16:35:15Z")
On _Hollywood Squares,_ a question for Mel Brooks: Before their combat in the arena, the gladiators would assemble before the Emperor and say something to him. What? Mel’s answer: “We have to go to the john!” 😃 (The correct answer: \* morituri te salutamus \* (“we who are about to die salute you.”)