# Starbuck's "Moonlight Feels Right"- what's a tricky french connection? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 7, 2007, 4:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814 "2007-07-07T04:31:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/21 "2007-07-13T18:51:23Z")
S-A T-U-R D-A-Y NIGHT! S-A T-U-R D-A-Y NIGHT! S-A T-U-R D-A-Y NIGHT! What??? ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/22 "2007-07-13T18:58:33Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] I have no answer, but can I just tell you all that I loooooove this song? The way the guy kinda chuckles in it, plus it’s from my childhood, plus it’s one of those songs that evokes a warm Southern night to me. I have it on my best of the '70s CD and I listen to it in the car all the time. 🙂 [/QUOTE] Yes, you can tell us. You’re among friends. What else is on that CD? ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/23 "2007-07-13T19:34:50Z")
I have to go out to my car to get it but what the heck – it’s Friday afternoon. BRB. ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/24 "2007-07-13T19:42:20Z")
You have “a” CD of the best of the’70s? Really? Less than 80 minutes? I have three walls of shelves, floor-to-ceiling, of records and CDs, about half of which could be described as “the best of the '70s” (less than 1% of it is disco). And there are still groups and artists from back then that I’ve never heard! ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/25 "2007-07-13T19:50:22Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] Of course, I am now listening to the Fat Boys version of “Wipe Out” so that’s not saying much… [/QUOTE] I hope you also have their version of The Twist, with Chubby Checker. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/26 "2007-07-13T20:03:58Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] I hope you also have their version of The Twist, with Chubby Checker. [/QUOTE] No, but I do have “It’s Tricky” by RUN-DMC! Sing along everybody! _“It’s Tricky to rock around, to rock around, the clock all night! It’s Tricky!”_ ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/27 "2007-07-13T20:11:21Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] No, but I do have “It’s Tricky” by RUN-DMC! Sing along everybody! _“It’s Tricky to rock around, to rock around, the clock all night! It’s Tricky!”_ [/QUOTE] I think you’ve got you’re 50’s inside my '80s. Because you can rock around the clock all you like but it’s tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that’s right on time-- that’s what’s tricky. ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/28 "2007-07-13T20:32:56Z")
**fishbicycle** , I didn’t say it was the only one I had. 🙂 **Jodi’s CD of Feel-Good Easy-Listenin’ ‘70s Music, Mostly By One-Hit Wonders, Featuring Extensive Use of Cow-Bell** _It Never Rains In Southern California_ – Albert Hammond _Please Come To Boston_ – Dave Loggins _Hello, It’s Me_ – Todd Rundgren _I’d Really Love To See You_ – England Dan & John Ford Coley _Moonlight Feels Right_ – Starbuck _Couldn’t Get It Right_ – Climax Blues Band _Year of the Cat_ – Al Stewart _Baby Come Back_ – Player _Baker Street_ – Gerry Rafferty _Goodbye Girl_ – David Gates _Fool (If You Think It’s Over)_ – Chris Rea _Gypsies, Tramps, & Theives_ – Cher _Don’t Pull Your Love Out_ – Hamilton, Frank & Reynolds _Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling_ – Fortunes _Brandy_ – Looking Glass _Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)_ – The Hollies _Drift Away_ – Dobie Gray _We’re An American Band_ – Grand Funk Railroad _Dancing In The Moonlight_ – King Harvest ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/29 "2007-07-13T20:33:43Z")
[QUOTE=Biggirl] I think you’ve got you’re 50’s inside my '80s. Because you can rock around the clock all you like but it’s tricky to rock a rhyme, to rock a rhyme that’s right on time-- that’s what’s tricky. [/QUOTE] You be Illin’ **Jodi** , no Carpenters or Starland Vocal Band? ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/30 "2007-07-13T20:41:52Z")
Now that there is a good CD! I like all of those songs. Especially “Couldn’t Get It Right.” ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2007, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/31 "2007-07-13T20:59:29Z")
[QUOTE=Hypno-Toad] **Jodi** , no Carpenters or Starland Vocal Band? [/QUOTE] I hate _Afternoon Delight_. And I have the Carpenters’ Greatest Hits CD; no need to put them on a misc one. 🙂 > [@fishbicycle](#): > > Now that there is a good CD! I like all of those songs. Especially “Couldn’t Get It Right.” Cowbell cowbell cowbell! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/32 "2007-07-14T00:52:05Z")
Jodi, I have most of those on my iPod, but Cher, and especially THAT song, will never sully its bits. ---
**Author:** ![Wee\_Bairn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/90db22/32.png) [@Wee\_Bairn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wee_Bairn)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/33 "2007-07-14T03:55:16Z")
**Jodi,** replace Cher, Dobie Gray, Grand Funk & Hollies with “I Like Dreamin” “Smoke From a Distant Fire” “Tin Man” & “Sentinemtal Lady” and I’m with you 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 11:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/34 "2007-07-14T11:01:59Z")
[QUOTE=Wee Bairn] “Sentinemtal Lady” [/QUOTE] Ah, Bob Welch. No love for “Ebony Eyes?” (Wasn’t he with Fleetwood Mac for a while?) Although, again from Jodi’s List, ED&JFC and The Hollies are the least one-hit-wonderish of the bunch (not counting she-who-won’t-be-discussed.) From my iPod: ED&JFC I’d Really Love to See You Tonight Nights are Forever Without You It’s Sad To Belong Love is the Answer Gone Too Far We’ll Never Have to Say Goodbye The Hollies Bus Stop Carrie-Anne The Air that I Breathe ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/35 "2007-07-14T16:24:57Z")
[QUOTE=Jodi] **fishbicycle** , I didn’t say it was the only one I had. 🙂 **Jodi’s CD of Feel-Good Easy-Listenin’ ‘70s Music, Mostly By One-Hit Wonders, Featuring Extensive Use of Cow-Bell** _It Never Rains In Southern California_ – Albert Hammond _Please Come To Boston_ – Dave Loggins _Hello, It’s Me_ – Todd Rundgren _I’d Really Love To See You_ – England Dan & John Ford Coley _Moonlight Feels Right_ – Starbuck _Couldn’t Get It Right_ – Climax Blues Band _Year of the Cat_ – Al Stewart _Baby Come Back_ – Player _Baker Street_ – Gerry Rafferty _Goodbye Girl_ – David Gates _Fool (If You Think It’s Over)_ – Chris Rea _Gypsies, Tramps, & Theives_ – Cher _Don’t Pull Your Love Out_ – Hamilton, Frank & Reynolds _Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling_ – Fortunes _Brandy_ – Looking Glass _Long Cool Woman (In A Black Dress)_ – The Hollies _Drift Away_ – Dobie Gray _We’re An American Band_ – Grand Funk Railroad _Dancing In The Moonlight_ – King Harvest [/QUOTE] Sounds good. Baker Street is the best of the bunch. Everytime I hear that sax intro it takes me back years. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 4:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/36 "2007-07-14T16:49:29Z")
A song I miss is “Right Down the Line” by Gerry Rafferty. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/37 "2007-07-14T18:31:43Z")
[QUOTE=Turek] Jodi, I have most of those on my iPod, but Cher, and especially THAT song, will never sully its bits. [/QUOTE] Do not be bagging on Cher in my presence. \ ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/38 "2007-07-14T19:09:45Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Do not be bagging on Cher in my presence. \ [/QUOTE] Yeah, well, we’re just gonna hafta agree to disagree on that front, because her nasal-yodel voice makes me want to drive knitting needles into my ears. ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/39 "2007-07-14T20:00:57Z")
[QUOTE=Wile E] Sounds good. Baker Street is the best of the bunch. Everytime I hear that sax intro it takes me back years. [/QUOTE] Amen, I love that song. It’s one that gets me a raised eyebrow when people see it on my iPod, but I think it’s awesome. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [July 14, 2007, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814/40 "2007-07-14T20:43:37Z")
I rented a car a few months ago, and it was the first time I’d driven around with satellite radio. I turned it to the 70s station (no commercials), and I heard this song for the very first time ever. Unbelievable! Unfortunately, it’s almost impossible to find a CD that includes this song but doesn’t include _Afternoon Delight_; they appear to be joined at the bell-bottomed hip when it comes to 70s compilations. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/starbucks-moonlight-feels-right-whats-a-tricky-french-connection/410814.md?page=3)