# That 70's song-- Name That Tune for old fogeys **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 9, 2003, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256 "2003-07-09T16:04:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/181 "2003-07-11T19:51:03Z")
Whoops! That’s “_Kung_ Fu Fighting,” of course. (Would King Fu Fighting be a martial art as practiced by Elvis? :)) ---
**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 11, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/182 "2003-07-11T19:58:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by astorian \* > \*\*And while ast14 is a Tavares song, it’s not the one named. > > \*\* You are of course right and I am most definitely wrong. But now I’ve got this stinking song in my head and I can’t think of the name and it is DRIVING ME INSANE! All’s I know is is that when Barretta went to go get her she ended up dead in the parking lot. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/183 "2003-07-11T19:59:25Z")
ast 17- “There was voodoo in the vibes.” _So into You_ by **Atlanta Rhythmn Section** ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/184 "2003-07-11T20:04:52Z")
100). Should I fall out of love, my fire in the light/To chase a feather in the wind _All of my Love_ by **Led Zeppilin** ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/185 "2003-07-11T20:12:32Z")
f12: “No whiskey for sale/Get caught, no bail” Sounds like \* Nutbush City Limits\* by **Bob Seeger** Although I always heard it as _No whiskey for sale, can’t find a female_ st25- “Needing me now is something I could use.” That one is driving me crazy. ---
**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 11, 2003, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/186 "2003-07-11T20:15:58Z")
AH HA!!! Whodunit!!! Who stole my baby? Everyone in the room looks shady. Boy, I feel much better. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/187 "2003-07-11T20:20:48Z")
BG9- Oh yes I can make it now, the pain is gone _I can see clearly now_ by **Johnny Nash** ---
**Author:** ![bytheway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bytheway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bytheway)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/188 "2003-07-11T20:31:58Z")
ast25- “Needing me now is something I could use.” is _Midnight Blue_, Melissa Manchester More songs: btw10. Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be btw11. Candy Land appears each time you smile btw12. There’ll always be sunshine when I look at you btw13. Honey I’ll never leave you lonely, Give my love to you only btw14. I’d like to someday be the owner of the first house on the moon btw15. So I try to be hip and think like the crowd ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/189 "2003-07-11T20:49:13Z")
btw10. “Everybody wants me to be what they want me to be” – “I’m Easy.” Can’t remember the artist, though, but I’m easy like a country morning. 🙂 btw15. “So I try to be hip and think like the crowd” – But even the crowd can’t help me now. That’s “Oh Girl” by the Chi-Lites. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/190 "2003-07-11T20:56:02Z")
btw14. I’d like to someday be the owner of the first house on the moon _Stone in Love with You_ **Blue Magic** 5tc 4 I got a John Keats autographed Grecian urn 5tc 5 Substitution, Mass Confusion, clouds inside my head 5tc 6 I will remember you Your silhouette will charge the view 5tc 7 You say we’ll soar like two birds through the clouds ---
**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:** [July 11, 2003, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/191 "2003-07-11T20:58:50Z")
btw 13 is “You Are My Shining Star” by the Manhattans (and I think that came out in 1980). Here’s one that hasn’t been answered yet that I’ll renumber: NDP 5 - I was a pimp’s main profit. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/192 "2003-07-11T21:06:32Z")
BG2- One of these days you’re gonna break your glass _Don’t Bring me Down_ by **ELO** ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/193 "2003-07-11T21:11:48Z")
ast13) Rock N’ Roll Heaven - by ? BG5 - Lady Madonna - the Beatles (not sure about this song) NDP1) Hangman - Led Zeppelin NDP2) Poetry Man - Phoebe Snow ast21) It’s Magic - by ? BG12 - After the Love Is Gone - Kool & the Gang btw11) Betcha By Golly Wow - the Stylistics btw13) You Are My Shining Star - by? btw14) Stone in Love With You - the Stylistics ---
**Author:** ![Fish42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@Fish42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish42)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/194 "2003-07-11T21:18:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by 5 time champ \* > \*_f12: “No whiskey for sale/Get caught, no bail” > Sounds like \* Nutbush City Limits_ by **Bob Seeger** > > Although I always heard it as > _No whiskey for sale, > can’t find a female_ > > \*\* Well, in Ike & Tina Turner’s original version, it’s “Get caught, no bail” ---
**Author:** ![bytheway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bytheway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bytheway)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/195 "2003-07-11T21:19:45Z")
5tc 5 Substitution, Mass Confusion, clouds inside my head is _Bye Bye Love_ by the Cars. ---
**Author:** ![Fish42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/4da419/32.png) [@Fish42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fish42)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/196 "2003-07-11T21:29:30Z")
ast21- “Lazy day in bed, music in my head.” “Magic,” Pilot ast24- “My face is so pretty, you don’t see a scar.” “Black Superman – Muhammed Ali,” Johnny Wakelin & the Kinsasha Band ast30- “But the names you drop are second-hand.” “Fox on the Run,” Sweet NDP 3 - Everyone says I’ve got no respect “Less Than Zero,” Elvis Costello 5tc 4 I got a John Keats autographed Grecian urn “Junk Food Junkie,” Larry Groce f23: “I was waiting for the Communist call” f24: “Cancer…and my name is Larry”\* f25: “I don’t know if I should/Give my love to you when I know you’re no good” f26: “Is it any wonder I reject you first?” f27: “Ethel, you shameless hussy!” \*I think it’s Larry, but I could be misremembering; anyways, the exact name doesn’t really matter. ---
**Author:** ![5\_time\_champ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/5/278dde/32.png) [@5\_time\_champ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/5_time_champ)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/197 "2003-07-11T21:38:52Z")
f26: “Is it any wonder I reject you first?” _Fame_ **David Bowie** f27: “Ethel, you shameless hussy!” _The Streak_ \*\*Ray Stevens \*\* ---
**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:** [July 11, 2003, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/198 "2003-07-11T21:40:55Z")
Suse, regarding NDP 1, you’ve got the right group but the title’s wrong. ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/199 "2003-07-11T21:53:02Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by NDP \* > \*\*Suse, regarding NDP 1, you’ve got the right group but the title’s wrong. \*\* Can you tell I never listen to the deejays? 😃 I can’t think of the right title, sorry - I can just hear that line in my head. 5tc7) That’s The Way I Always Heard It Should Be - Carly Simon f24) - Float On - the Floaters Suse1) Like corn in a field I cut you down Suse2) Ain’t no two ways about it Suse3) I never really looked before but now you take my breath away Suse4) Action, I got so much to give Suse5) Answer to all answers I can find ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256/200 "2003-07-11T21:54:08Z")
oh, is ast13 by the Righteous Brothers? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/that-70s-song-name-that-tune-for-old-fogeys/187256.md?page=11)