That last one was sorta dumb because if you listen to the words, he kinda says he is.
P.S. all videos are SFW.
Forgot one. Jewish.
I didn’t know either, if that makes you feel any better.
I used to think it was Ray Charles who sang Joe Cocker’s version of “With a Little Help From My Friends.”
And Tasmin Archer, who sang “Sleeping Satellites”, had me fooled too.
That works on the same level as “oh, he’s not gay. He’s British.”
I knew the Dobie Gray, because it’s one of the songs I sing when I do karoake.
I also knew the Nick Gilder, for some unknown reason. I vaguely remember when that song came out we were all like “that’s a guy?”
In terms of Norman Greenbaum, how does one “sing Jewish?”
Well, generally you *don’t *sing about how you’ve “got a friend in Jesus”…
Not how he sings but what he sings about.
Okay, I’ll give you that. I was paying more attention to the voice rather than than the lyrics.
I knew exactly what song this was gonna be…
I learned this Christmas that a Danke Schoen era Wayne Newton did not sing Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.
I totally thought you were setting us up for a rickroll before I clicked that.
My niece was shocked when I told her Cher is a woman.
Wow…I loved that song. And, I, too, always assumed that Bobby Caldwell was black.
I immediately knew that was going to be Nick Gilder before I even clicked the link. It felt good to be proven correct.
Recorded in 1995; singer was 45 years old at the time.
When I first heard it on the college radio station last year, I assumed it was a local indie band.
Holy crap! I always thought the same thing until now.
I love this little bit of trivia: when Madonna released her very first single ‘Everybody’, there was no picture on the sleeve and (for a while) no music video, and apparently it was widely assumed she was black.
Tom Jones is black according to the Israelite School of Universal Practical Knowledge.
What the… He looks like k.d.lang!