# Tiny Dancer- Urgh!? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 3, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941 "2007-09-03T21:08:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941/21 "2007-09-04T17:51:10Z")
[QUOTE=Idlewild] I heard it makes an even better earworm if you substitute “Tony Danza” into the lyrics. No, no, don’t thank me. [/QUOTE] You don’t know how long Blinded by the Light stuck in my head when pointed to the alternative lyrics to: > [@](#): > > And little Early Birdy > came by in his twilry whirly (“Gave his WHAT Twirly Whirly? And what’s Twirly Whirly in that context, anyway?”) ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941/22 "2007-09-04T18:00:41Z")
A helicopter, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Bobotheoptimist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/919ad9/32.png) [@Bobotheoptimist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bobotheoptimist)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941/23 "2007-09-04T18:05:34Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Goob] I always remember it as the closing music to an episode of WKRP in Cincinnati when a Russian hog expert falls for Bailey and tries to defect. [/QUOTE] I still get funny looks from people for (among other things) randomly saying “Hold me closer, tiny dancer” with a thick Russian accent. I don’t have one song, but it seems that Tom Petty is stalking me. At least twice a day I’ll hear a Petty song. Seems to me I’ve gone years without encountering Tom, but the past 3 months have certainly made up for it. ---
**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:** [September 4, 2007, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941/24 "2007-09-04T21:58:13Z")
[QUOTE=Bobotheoptimist] I still get funny looks from people for (among other things) randomly saying “Hold me closer, tiny dancer” with a thick Russian accent. [/QUOTE] Mmmm… Bailey. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941/25 "2007-09-04T22:00:22Z")
This thread confused me. I’ve no idea what song you’re all talking about (and from the sound of it I’m not missing much) but there’s a band making inroads in the twee-pop-alternative market called the Tiny Dancers (annoyingly catchy guitar indie stuff) that I assumed this was about. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941/26 "2007-09-04T22:07:29Z")
[QUOTE=Crusoe] This thread confused me. I’ve no idea what song you’re all talking about (and from the sound of it I’m not missing much) but there’s a band making inroads in the twee-pop-alternative market called the Tiny Dancers (annoyingly catchy guitar indie stuff) that I assumed this was about. [/QUOTE] How old are you trying to make me feel? ☹ (I remember when Rolling Stone reviewed the first album by some nobody singer/songwriter named Elton John and called him a promising talent in the folk world.) Seriously, if you’re not familiar with a song as famous as “Tiny Dancer” then you’re probably missing huge important chunks of rock history that you might want to catch up on. ---
**Author:** ![Crusoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/49beb7/32.png) [@Crusoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crusoe)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941/27 "2007-09-04T22:10:16Z")
Hmm, I know (more or less) the Elton John hits, but that one is completely unknown to me (just listening to it now). (and ha, I don’t think being 32 makes me a spring chicken!) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [September 4, 2007, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941/28 "2007-09-04T23:11:57Z")
[QUOTE=Crusoe] This thread confused me. I’ve no idea what song you’re all talking about (and from the sound of it I’m not missing much) [/QUOTE] Oh forget the fogeys. It’s a decent song, just WAY overplayed. More importantly, it sounds like you’ve never seen the movie **Almost Famous**. You have to rectify that asap! Forget the Tiny Dancer scene (though it’s a good scene), the rest of the movie is really wonderful too. ---
**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:** [September 5, 2007, 12:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941/29 "2007-09-05T12:29:30Z")
[QUOTE=Crusoe] Hmm, I know (more or less) the Elton John hits, but that one is completely unknown to me (just listening to it now). [/QUOTE] How long have you lived in this alternate universe? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Ceejaytee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ceejaytee/32/2956_2.png) [@Ceejaytee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ceejaytee)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941/30 "2007-09-05T19:43:26Z")
I was stalked all last week by a Hawaiian remake of Air Supply’s “All Out of Love.” I just looked it up and it was recorded by a group called First Verse. It was a good remake, actually, with more bounce than the original, but it played every time I stepped into my sister’s car, as apparently the local Kauai station could just NOT get enough of it. And she’d call my attention to it every time: “Oooh, Cathy, they’re playing your song.” Gee, thanks. I was trying to ignore it. Tiny Dancer’s great though. ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [September 5, 2007, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941/31 "2007-09-05T23:36:01Z")
[QUOTE=Elenfair] Qadgop, will you be my adoptive father? [/QUOTE] Um, ok. But you’d have to be pre-cut out of the will. Might be better if I was avuncular instead. > [@](#): > > Tony Danza, in my haaaaaaaaaaaaaand! \<\\> [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tiny-dancer-urgh/417941.md?page=1)