# Why did she run calling "Wildfire"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 1, 2005, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502 "2005-03-01T22:42:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Uncle\_Dragon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/ecc23a/32.png) [@Uncle\_Dragon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncle_Dragon)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/101 "2005-03-05T03:03:26Z")
[begin embarassing admition] I’ve always liked McArthur Park, because way back in high school it was one of the tunes we played in the Jazz Ensemble, and it had a really cool trombone part. It wasn’t until years later that I’d actually heard the lyrics… [end embarassing admition] ---
**Author:** ![indecisive1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/41988e/32.png) [@indecisive1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indecisive1)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/102 "2005-03-05T03:09:15Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Actually, that was the Young Rascals. David Cassidy may have covered it, I’ve honestly never heard any version other than the Young Rascals version. > > I love that song. It’s on the tail end of my Oldies mix CD just before “Our Day Will Come” (Ruby & The Romantics) and “It’s All In The Game” (Tommy Edwards). OH? :smack: so sorry, I’ll have to try a find the original to hear. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/103 "2005-03-05T03:24:14Z")
I’ll admit-I sometimes invent strange scenarios to make awful songs tolerable. Remember that terrible piece of tripe “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro? Play it out when crossed with Dragnet. _One day while I was not at home while she was there and all alone, the angels came_ Bam Bam Bam! Honey (opens door): Hello? Angel Friday: Hello Ma’am, I’m Angel Friday, this is Angel Gannon. Angel Gannon: Hello Ma’am. AF: Are you Honey? Honey: Why yes, I am, but what is this all about? AFriday: We need you to come with us, Ma’am. AGannon: Just a little matter to handle. Honey: But I don’t understand. AFriday: We’ve got instructions to pick you up on a 323. Please come with us, Ma’am. ---
**Author:** ![FaerieBeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e95f7d/32.png) [@FaerieBeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FaerieBeth)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/104 "2005-03-05T04:40:18Z")
Okay, I seriously need to reassess my choice of listening material in my vehicle. I have Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne”. I now fully admit that I suck at selecting music. _We took her groceries to the checkout stand The food was totaled up and bagged_ ---
**Author:** ![dearissues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/919ad9/32.png) [@dearissues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dearissues)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/105 "2005-03-05T04:48:44Z")
> [@NinetyWt](#): > > Well … > > when my son was little, he had heard that old rock ballad about “feel like makin’ love !!” > > But he sang it: “You like Adrie - uhhh!” > > Of course, I couldn’t correct him. > 😛 That happened to be on the radio today, and my 11 y/o sister (who pays way too much attention to adult conversations) said to my best friend, “He’s asking you a question! Answer him!” ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 6:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/106 "2005-03-05T06:38:21Z")
> [@FaerieBeth](#): > > Okay, I seriously need to reassess my choice of listening material in my vehicle. > > I have Dan Fogelberg’s “Same Old Lang Syne”. I now fully admit that I suck at selecting music. > > _We took her groceries to the checkout stand > The food was totaled up and bagged_ You think that’s bad? How about, “The beer was empty and our tongues were tired…” ---
**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:** [March 5, 2005, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/107 "2005-03-05T08:26:12Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > I’ll admit-I sometimes invent strange scenarios to make awful songs tolerable. Remember that terrible piece of tripe “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro? Play it out when crossed with Dragnet. > > _One day while I was not at home while she was there and all alone, the angels came_ > > Bam Bam Bam! > Honey (opens door): Hello? > Angel Friday: Hello Ma’am, I’m Angel Friday, this is Angel Gannon. > Angel Gannon: Hello Ma’am. > AF: Are you Honey? > Honey: Why yes, I am, but what is this all about? > AFriday: We need you to come with us, Ma’am. > AGannon: Just a little matter to handle. > Honey: But I don’t understand. > AFriday: We’ve got instructions to pick you up on a 323. Please come with us, Ma’am. A “323,” eh? Is that “dying young” as an offense prosecutable under the laws of California? You’d sure have it in for Anne Frank… :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 8:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/108 "2005-03-05T08:47:36Z")
> [@Dung Beetle](#): > > It is my firm belief that there are some songs out there that everyone likes, but no one will admit to liking, and “Afternoon Delight” tops the list. Go ahead, deny that you love it. I, for one, do not believe you! > > “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” is another. Like 'em both. “Muskrat love”??? Well, maybe- sometimes. :dubious: \*\* Not \*\*“Wildfire” however- horrible. I despise the Carpenters. And, yes “MacArthur Park” is the very worst hit song- ever. ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/109 "2005-03-05T13:18:23Z")
I like _Wildfire_, too. They actually play it every now and then on an oldies country station here. I saw Michael Murphy in concert, too, back in the day. He brought his little son out with him. But the absolute worse song ever is _In The Year 2525._ In the year 2525, if man is still alive if woman can survive… ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/110 "2005-03-05T15:13:41Z")
> [@ShibbOleth](#): > > They’re saying: “Big boys don’t cwy, big boys don’t cwy”, right? Yep-that is the correct lyric. Speaking of putrid songs…“Ebony and Ivory”, anyone? And leave Gordon Lighfoot alone! He is folk, and they’re allowed more leeway (arbitrary rule, set by me, now). ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/111 "2005-03-05T15:40:23Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > Yep-that is the correct lyric. > > Speaking of putrid songs…“Ebony and Ivory”, anyone? > And leave Gordon Lighfoot alone! He is folk, and they’re allowed more leeway (arbitrary rule, set by me, now). Which is probably one of the reasons I don’t listen to folk. I see your “Ebony and Ivory”, and I raise you “That’s What Friends Are For”. ---
**Author:** ![davmilasav](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9bcb4/32.png) [@davmilasav](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davmilasav)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/112 "2005-03-05T16:08:45Z")
> [@Dolores Reborn](#): > > But the absolute worse song ever is _In The Year 2525._ > > In the year 2525, > if man is still alive > if woman can survive… Anybody else think the vocalist on that song sounds like Burl Ives? I get horrible mental images of the Snowman from\*\* Rudolph\*\* singing about the future dystopia. Shudder ---
**Author:** ![The\_Punkyova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@The\_Punkyova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Punkyova)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2005, 5:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/113 "2005-03-05T17:25:10Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > I’ll admit-I sometimes invent strange scenarios to make awful songs tolerable. Remember that terrible piece of tripe “Honey” by Bobby Goldsboro? Play it out when crossed with Dragnet. > > _One day while I was not at home while she was there and all alone, the angels came_ In the aforementioned _Dave Barry’s Book of Bad Songs_, he notes that one reader wrote in to say that the song was just about bearable if you assumed that the angels are Hell’s Angels. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/114 "2005-03-06T00:54:25Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > Which is probably one of the reasons I don’t listen to folk. > > I see your “Ebony and Ivory”, and I raise you “That’s What Friends Are For”. “Your Kiss Is on My List” \ ---
**Author:** ![umop\_ap\_sdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/dbc845/32.png) [@umop\_ap\_sdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/umop_ap_sdn)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/115 "2005-03-06T01:34:46Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > “Your Kiss Is on My List” Even those catchy low piano notes? ---
**Author:** ![Zoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@Zoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zoe)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/116 "2005-03-06T05:57:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*\*dougie\_monty: “Raunchy” by Bill Justis **Dougie**! You are treading on sacred ground! You are probably going to tell me that you didn’t like _Honky Tonk_, parts I and II either…you, savage! ---
**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:** [March 6, 2005, 8:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/117 "2005-03-06T08:53:00Z")
> [@Zoe](#): > > **Dougie**! You are treading on sacred ground! > > You are probably going to tell me that you didn’t like _Honky Tonk_, parts I and II either…you, savage! ME?! Perish the thought! “Raunchy” was one of few rock 'n roll songs I played on juke boxes when I was a kid. I have it now on a single, recorded onto a cassette for easier playback. As for “Honky Tonk,” I have never heard it, much less condemned it; perchance you mean a song by the Rolling Stones? And back to “Honey”: I empathize with a hypothetical young husband who comes home and finds his wife lying there dead… why bring Hell’s Angels into it? :mad: ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2005, 7:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/118 "2005-03-06T19:49:13Z")
> [@eleanorigby](#): > > “Your Kiss Is on My List” > > \ Oh Ho! In spite of Darryl Hall having incredible pipes, that _is_ a pretty drecky song. Okay, I’ll call your old classic crap, and raise you a new, instant classic crap - Shania Twain’s (almost) new single, “Party for Two”. If you have been lucky enough to not have heard it yet, go listen to it. I dare ya. ( **dougie** , I read your first line as “Penis the thought!” at first. Oops.) ---
**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:** [March 7, 2005, 8:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/119 "2005-03-07T08:30:30Z")
> [@featherlou](#): > > ( **dougie** , I read your first line as “Penis the thought!” at first. Oops.) Now _ **that** _ sounds like a Freudian slip. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [August 30, 2005, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502/120 "2005-08-30T21:06:39Z")
> [@](#): > > I’ve heard it all before, Michael > she told me that I’m her forever lover, you know, don’t you remember? 😛 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502.md?page=5) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-did-she-run-calling-wildfire/292502.md?page=7)