Name that song
Young and beautiful
But someday your looks will be gone
When the others turn you off
Who'll be turning you on?
Quote: GialmereAnd now, in the category 70's Pop, name that song...
Young and beautiful
But someday your looks will be gone
When the others turn you off
Who'll be turning you on?
Quote: MoscaI was at the stadium
There were twenty thousand girls called their names out to me
Marie and ruth but to tell you the truth
I didn't hear them I didn't see
I let my eyes rise to the big tower clock
And I heard those bells chimin' in my heart
Going ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong.
Ding dong ding dong ding dong ding dong
Counting the time, then you came to my room
And you whispered to me and we took the big plunge
And oh. you were so good, oh, you were so fine
And I gotta tell the world that I make her mine make her mine
Make her mine make her mine make her mine make her mine
Nobody is going to even guess at it, so,
Patti Smith, “Gloria (in excelsis deo)”
Quote: MoscaRide in a Stutz Bearcat, Jim
You know, those were different times
Oh, all the poets, they studied rules of verse
And those ladies, they rolled their eyes
Same thing:
This is “Sweet Jane”, by The Velvet Underground/Lou Reed, also covered by Mott the Hoople and The Cowboy Junkies, among others.
Quote: JoemanLove Will Keep Us Together by Captain & Tennille.
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And now, in the category, Euro Disco, name that song...
You can dance, you can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
Dancing QueenQuote: Gialmere
And now, in the category, Euro Disco, name that song...
You can dance, you can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
ABBA
Way down, down, down by the docks of the city
Blind and dirty
Asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story
My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine
More than my wine
More than my maker, though he's no friend of mine
Everyone said
I'd come to no good, I knew I would Pearly, believe them
Half of my life
I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime
The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine
But I'll get back on my feet again someday
The good Lord willin'
If He says I may
I know that the life I'm livin's no good
I'll get a new start, live the life I should
I'll get up and fly away,
I'll get up and fly away, fly away
Pearly's been true
True to me, true to my dyin' day he said
I said to him
I said to him, "I'm sure she's been"
I said to him, "I'm sure she's been true to you"
I got up and wandered
Wandered downtown, nowhere to go but just hang around
I've got a girl
Named Bonnie Lee, I know that girl's been true to me
I know she's been, I'm sure she's been true to me
Quote: DocDancing QueenQuote: Gialmere
And now, in the category, Euro Disco, name that song...
You can dance, you can jive
Having the time of your life
Ooh, see that girl, watch that scene
ABBA
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Quote: MoscaOld man down
Way down, down, down by the docks of the city
Blind and dirty
Asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story
My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine
More than my wine
More than my maker, though he's no friend of mine
Everyone said
I'd come to no good, I knew I would Pearly, believe them
Half of my life
I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime
The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine
But I'll get back on my feet again someday
The good Lord willin'
If He says I may
I know that the life I'm livin's no good
I'll get a new start, live the life I should
I'll get up and fly away,
I'll get up and fly away, fly away
Pearly's been true
True to me, true to my dyin' day he said
I said to him
I said to him, "I'm sure she's been"
I said to him, "I'm sure she's been true to you"
I got up and wandered
Wandered downtown, nowhere to go but just hang around
I've got a girl
Named Bonnie Lee, I know that girl's been true to me
I know she's been, I'm sure she's been true to me
We know we belong to the land
And the land we belong to is grand!
And when we say
Yeeow! A-yip-i-o-e-ay!
We're only sayin'
You're doin' fine
Quote: Doc"Oklahoma!"
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Quote: MoscaOld man down
Way down, down, down by the docks of the city
Blind and dirty
Asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story
My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine
More than my wine
More than my maker, though he's no friend of mine
Everyone said
I'd come to no good, I knew I would Pearly, believe them
Half of my life
I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime
The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine
But I'll get back on my feet again someday
The good Lord willin'
If He says I may
I know that the life I'm livin's no good
I'll get a new start, live the life I should
I'll get up and fly away,
I'll get up and fly away, fly away
Pearly's been true
True to me, true to my dyin' day he said
I said to him
I said to him, "I'm sure she's been"
I said to him, "I'm sure she's been true to you"
I got up and wandered
Wandered downtown, nowhere to go but just hang around
I've got a girl
Named Bonnie Lee, I know that girl's been true to me
I know she's been, I'm sure she's been true to me
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And now, in the category 30s Folk, name that song...
Listen to the jingle, the rumble and the roar
As she glides along the woodland o'er the hills and by the shore
Hear the mighty rush of the engine hear those lonesome hoboes call
Traveling through the jungle...
I think you've dug back to eras of my memory though I wasn't around in the 30s.
Quote: MoscaOld man down
Way down, down, down by the docks of the city
Blind and dirty
Asked me for a dime, a dime for a cup of coffee
I got no dime but I got some time to hear his story
My name is August West, and I love my Pearly Baker best more than my wine
More than my wine
More than my maker, though he's no friend of mine
Everyone said
I'd come to no good, I knew I would Pearly, believe them
Half of my life
I spent doin' time for some other fucker's crime
The other half found me stumbling 'round drunk on Burgundy wine
But I'll get back on my feet again someday
The good Lord willin'
If He says I may
I know that the life I'm livin's no good
I'll get a new start, live the life I should
I'll get up and fly away,
I'll get up and fly away, fly away
Pearly's been true
True to me, true to my dyin' day he said
I said to him
I said to him, "I'm sure she's been"
I said to him, "I'm sure she's been true to you"
I got up and wandered
Wandered downtown, nowhere to go but just hang around
I've got a girl
Named Bonnie Lee, I know that girl's been true to me
I know she's been, I'm sure she's been true to me
Not that many are playing, so this one, while not ridiculously obscure, is also not mainstream. It’s “Wharf Rat” by the Grateful Dead.
Quote: Doc"Wabash Cannonball"
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And now, in the Memorial Day category Patriotic Music, name that song...
This American patriotic marching tune is not often played anymore at serious ocaasions due to its use by a British comedy troupe.
Quote: Gialmere
And now, in the Memorial Day category Patriotic Music, name that song...
This American patriotic marching tune is not often played anymore at serious ocaasions due to its use by a British comedy troupe.
Quote: gordonm888The Liberty Bell March, used frequently in Monty Python's Flying Circus
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And now, in the category 80's Pop, name that song...
Some of them want to use you
Some of them want to get used by you
Some of them want to abuse you
Some of them want to be abused
Quote: Mosca”Sweet Dreams” The Eurhythics
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And now, in the category 90's Pop, name that song...
Eurus
Afer Ventus
So the world goes round and round
With all you ever knew
They say the sky high above
Is...
Quote: GialmereAnd now, in the category 90's Pop, name that song...
Eurus
Afer Ventus
So the world goes round and round
With all you ever knew
They say the sky high above
Is...
If every man says all he can
If every man is true
Do I believe the sky above
Is..............................?
Quote: GialmereQuote: GialmereAnd now, in the category 90's Pop, name that song...
Eurus
Afer Ventus
So the world goes round and round
With all you ever knew
They say the sky high above
Is...The songs of this Irish singer are often classified as "Celtic" or "New Age" although she herself does not agree with such assessments.
If every man says all he can
If every man is true
Do I believe the sky above
Is..............................?
Buuuuzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
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And now, in the category Multi Decade Charting, name that song...
Have you seen the well to do
Up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thorough fare
With their noses in the air
High hats and narrow collars
White spats and lots of dollars
Spending every dime
For a wonderful time
Quote: GialmereQuote: GialmereQuote: GialmereAnd now, in the category 90's Pop, name that song...
Eurus
Afer Ventus
So the world goes round and round
With all you ever knew
They say the sky high above
Is...The songs of this Irish singer are often classified as "Celtic" or "New Age" although she herself does not agree with such assessments.
If every man says all he can
If every man is true
Do I believe the sky above
Is..............................?
Buuuuzzzzzzzzzzzzz!Well, I see there are no Enya fans here. The song is "Caribbean Blue" off her 1991 album Shepherd Moons. You've probably heard it and/or remember the video utilizing imagery based on the paintings of Maxfield Parrish
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And now, in the category Multi Decade Charting, name that song...
Have you seen the well to do
Up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thorough fare
With their noses in the air
High hats and narrow collars
White spats and lots of dollars
Spending every dime
For a wonderful time
Quote: GialmereAnd now, in the category Multi Decade Charting, name that song...
Have you seen the well to do
Up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thorough fare
With their noses in the air
High hats and narrow collars
White spats and lots of dollars
Spending every dime
For a wonderful time
I believe that is...
Dog Hand
Quote: MoscaThey are “Puttin’ on the Ritz”.
Quote: DogHandI believe that is...
"Puttin' on the Ritz"
Dog Hand
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Fred Astaire, who's most associated with the song, also recorded a version in 1930. In 1946, Astaire was appearing in the film "Blue Skies" so Irving Berlin decided to rewrite the lyrics to fit both the plot and the dancer's top hat and tails trademark look. He moved the scene of the action to the high society of Park Ave. These lyrics would become the standard...
Of course, baby boomers will forever associate the song with this famous scene in the Mel Brooks' 1974 film "Young Frankenstein"...
In the MTV 80s Danish artist Taco would chart big with this synth-pop version. Note that the video isn't often seen anymore due to some dancers performing in blackface...
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And now, in the category 70's Soft Rock, name that song...
It's nine o'clock on a Saturday
The regular crowd shuffles in
There's an old man sitting next to me
Makin' love to his tonic and gin
I'm not really sure how it goes;
But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete,
When I wore a younger man's clothes.'
Quote: VenthusHe says, 'Son, can you play me a memory,
I'm not really sure how it goes;
But it's sad and it's sweet, and I knew it complete,
When I wore a younger man's clothes.'Piano Man, Billy Joel
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And now, in the category 80's Pop, name that song.
The phone rings in the middle of the night
My father yells, "What you gonna do with your life?"
Oh daddy dear, you know you're still number one
But...
Quote: MoscaGirls Just Wanna Have Fun
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And now. in the category Psychedelic Rock, name that song...
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
Quote: GialmereQuote: MoscaGirls Just Wanna Have Fun
Winner! Winner! Fortunate Chicken Dinner!!Written in 1979, this would become Cyndi Lauper's first single in 1983. It would also be a breakthrough, worldwide hit. Originally the song was told from a male point of view. With Lauper, the song would become a sort of feminist anthem conveying that all women really want is to have the same experiences that men can. [Look for a Beldar Conehead cameo in the video.]
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And now. in the category Psychedelic Rock, name that song...
When logic and proportion have fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's off with her head
These are too easy.
I see your hair is burning
Hills are filled with fire
If they say I never loved you
You know they are a liar
Driving down your freeways
Midnight alleys roam
Cops in cars, the topless bars
Never saw a woman so alone
Quote: MoscaThese are too easy.
Are you saying your mojo's rising? Rising, rising?
Quote: GialmereAre you saying your mojo's rising? Rising, rising?
It seemed so funny to me
Dog Hand
50's Songs Containing Metric Measurements
A few weeks ago I was driving with my Dad, so we were listening to 50's music. I was surprised to hear a song that used a measurement from the metric system. Just recently, I heard a second 50's song that used yet another measurement from the metric system.
Both of these songs made the Billboard Hot 100 list, with the first one reaching #2, while the other, sung by a very well-known artist, reached only #30, but it did win an Oscar, and is also popular among Phillies fans.
Name those songs!
Dog Hand
It's the only 50s song I can think of with a metric reference anyways.
Quote: DogHandA few weeks ago I was driving with my Dad, so we were listening to 50's music. I was surprised to hear a song that used a measurement from the metric system. Just recently, I heard a second 50's song that used yet another measurement from the metric system.
Apologies for being in pedantic mode today, but "second" (as in 1/60 of a minute) is a metric measurement. I have a feeling you didn't mean to include that.
Dog Hand
Ding, ding, ding... We have a partial winner!
By the way, the English-to-metric conversion implied in the song was relatively close.
The other song showed that that songwriter was not an accomplished engineer.
Dog Hand
Hope this helps!
Dog Hand
The song is "High Hopes", and features a line about a ram butting a hole in a "billion kilowatt dam". A billion kilowatts is a terawatt, but the highest power dam in the world, the Three Gorges dam in China, produces only 22.5 gigawatts, or 0.0225 terawatts. Furthermore, when the song was written in the late 50's, no power plant in the world produced even 3 gigawatts.
Dog Hand
Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa
Oom m-mow mow
Pa pa oom mow m-mow
Pa pa pa oom m-mow mow
Pa pa oom mow m-mow
Quote: GialmereAnd now, in the category 60's Pop, name that song...
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Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa
Oom m-mow mow
Pa pa oom mow m-mow
Pa pa pa oom m-mow mow
Pa pa oom mow m-mow
I know it's not "Surfin' Bird," but is it by The Trashmen?
Which two 1950s pop songs — that I know of — made references to the United Nations as a body that could resolve the singers' grievances?
(One song should be well-known to most people, the other one I used to know well, but had to look up the artist + United Nations)
It's not? That would have been my guess. I mean, everybody's heard about the bird! ;)Quote: smoothgrhQuote: GialmereAnd now, in the category 60's Pop, name that song...
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Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa
Oom m-mow mow
Pa pa oom mow m-mow
Pa pa pa oom m-mow mow
Pa pa oom mow m-mow
I know it's not "Surfin' Bird," but is it by The Trashmen?link to original post
Quote: GialmereAnd now, in the category 60's Pop, name that song...
link to original post
Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa
Oom m-mow mow
Pa pa oom mow m-mow
Pa pa pa oom m-mow mow
Pa pa oom mow m-mow
Definitely not the correct answer needed but a possible cover.
Quote: GialmereAnd now, in the category 60's Pop, name that song...
Pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa pa
Oom m-mow mow
Pa pa oom mow m-mow
Pa pa pa oom m-mow mow
Pa pa oom mow m-mow]
Hmm... Carefully reading the responses, I don't think anyone actually declared the correct answer.
Yes, that is indeed "Surfin' Bird" by The Trashmen.
The surf rock band created "Surfin' Bird" by (to a small extent unknowingly) gluing together two songs by a group call The Rivingtons, increasing the tempo (into what would now be called proto punk) and ad-libbing their way through it.
"Surfin' Bird" would would go on to be covered by several bands, most notably by The Ramones...
It also appeared in the Stanley Kubrick film "Full Metal Jacket"...
These days, however, it's best known for being (somewhat literally) beaten into the ground in a classic episode of "Family Guy"...
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Quote: smoothgrhWhich two 1950s pop songs — that I know of — made references to the United Nations as a body that could resolve the singers' grievances?
link to original post
(One song should be well-known to most people, the other one I used to know well, but had to look up the artist + United Nations)
Quote: Gialmere
The surf rock band created "Surfin' Bird" by (to a small extent unknowingly) gluing together two songs by a group call The Rivingtons, increasing the tempo (into what would now be called proto punk) and ad-libbing their way through it.
Thanks for the history of "Surfing' Bird"! I recall hearing "pa pa oom m-mow mow" and thinking "ooh, Surfin' Bird — but it wasn't." It must have been the Rivingtons' song. So that's why I thought it was not "Surfin' Bird."
Regarding the United Nations in 1950s songs…
Yes, the well-known song is "Summertime Blues" by Eddie Cochran. I listened to that song often on my Time-Life CD compilation of The 1950s.
The other song is probably too obscure for most people. It's "Thirty Days" by Chuck Berry, which I heard often from my Chuck Berry: The Great Twenty-Eight album. I was thinking it must have been popular at the time to refer to the somewhat newly formed U.N.
Quote: DogHandIn the category 1960's Hits, this song contains the line
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It seemed so funny to me
Dog Hand
That's "Laugh, Laugh" by The Beau Brummels.
The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light
For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night
Quote: GialmereAnd now, in the category Famous Covers, name that song...
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The love we share
Seems to go nowhere
And I've lost my light
For I toss and turn I can't sleep at night
Quote: scolist
Tainted Love
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Yes indeed. That is "Tainted Love" performed by Soft Cell...
It was a huuuge hit in 1981. Most people, however, didn't realize it was actually a cover of a song that had already been released twice.
Gloria Jones recorded the original (and easily recognizable) version of "Tainted Love" in 1964...
Then she recorded it again in 1975, this time with a more disco feel...
Neither of these recordings charted.
Five years later Soft Cell, whose members liked Soul music, decided to take a crack at the song by updating it with their synth pop sound. "Tainted Love" stands alone, but an extended version was needed for nightclub dancing. So, keeping with the Soul theme, the song "Where Did Our Love Go" by the Supremes was added and this would become the best known version of the song...
Still, while Soft Cell certainly made an artistically pleasing choice, in hindsight it was not a wise business move. They could have written something themselves to add on to "Tainted Love". Instead they cut themselves off from half the revenue of the phenomenon they created.
No discussion of "Tainted Love" would be complete without mentioning the second most famous cover of it. Marilyn Manson recorded a version (which obviously took its cues from Soft Cell) in 2001 for the film "Not Another Teen Movie".
