Name that Tune

[WordWolf]

"At home, drawing pictures of mountain tops With him on top.

Lemon yellow sun, arms raised in a V.

And the dead lay in pools of maroon below.

Daddy didn't give attention Oh, to the fact that mommy didn't care"

"Clearly I remember pickin' on the boy.

Seemed a harmless little f***.

Ooo, but we unleashed a lion"

"How could I forget?

And he hit me with a surprise left

My jaw left hurtin', ooo, dropped wide open."

This one's from 1992. Anyone listen to that Seattle stuff ever?

[Human without the bean]

I was thinking Annie Lennox maybe.

British.

[WordWolf]

Ok, no bites on that one.

I'll switch songs.

Same artist.

"Son," she said, "Have I got a little story for you.

What you thought was your Daddy was nothin' but a...

While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen,

Your real Daddy was dyin'.

Sorry you didn't see him, but I'm glad we talked."

The ellipsis is in the song, I didn't drop a word.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Neither this song or your earlier entry seem even remotely familiar to me. I was dancing in nightclubs around that time, but I usually went to oldies places which might have played only a few current songs a night.

George

[WordWolf]

"Son," she said, "Have I got a little story for you.

What you thought was your Daddy was nothin' but a...

While you were sittin' home alone at age thirteen,

Your real Daddy was dyin'.

Sorry you didn't see him, but I'm glad we talked."

Oh,

she walks slowly, across a young man's room.

She said, "I'm ready

for you".

I can't remember anything to this very day

'cept the look,

the look.

Oh, you know where.

Now I can't see, I just stare.

The ellipsis is in the song, I didn't drop a word.

[Human without the bean]

Isn't this ~Pearl Jams~ " Alive ?

Edited July 27, 2013 by Human without the bean

[WordWolf]

Isn't this ~Pearl Jams~ " Alive ?

It is.

Pearl Jam's biggest hit.

Their second biggest hit was probably "Jeremy", which was the preceding song.

Your turn.

[Human without the bean]

I close my eyes when I get too sad

I think thoughts that I know are bad

Close my eyes and I count to ten

Hope it's over when I open them

Hope my mom and I hope my dad

Will figure out why they get so mad

Hear them scream, I hear them fight

They say bad words that make me wanna cry

this band formed in 92', and their name may not be remembered, but

it was this song that put them into the main stream spotlight.

[WordWolf]

Their name is probably remembered by heavy drinkers or people who thought

one or another of their later songs were better, IMHO.

[Human without the bean]

I was an Old English 800 guy myself.... Once drank so much of it I climbed up a tree and started barking.

I'm serious. The topic is actually about alcohol isn't it.

Edited August 1, 2013 by Human without the bean

[WordWolf]

It is if the alcohol is 190 proof.

[WordWolf]

I close my eyes when I get too sad

I think thoughts that I know are bad

Close my eyes and I count to ten

Hope it's over when I open them

Hope my mom and I hope my dad

Will figure out why they get so mad

Hear them scream, I hear them fight

They say bad words that make me wanna cry

this band formed in 92', and their name may not be remembered, but

it was this song that put them into the main stream spotlight.

The song's name is "Wonderful", and the band's name is "Everclear",

named after an alcoholic drink that is almost 100% alcohol.

Me, I really liked "I Will Buy You A New Life", a later song of theirs.

[WordWolf]

"You've really been grand

(I thrill when you touch my hand)

But don't you see

(How can you do this thing to me?)

There's bound to be talk tomorrow

(Think of my life long sorrow)

At least there will be plenty implied

(If you caught pneumonia and died)"

[WordWolf]

"This evening has been

(Been hoping that you'd drop in)

So very nice

(I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice)

My mother will start to worry

(Beautiful what's your hurry?)

My father will be pacing the floor

(Listen to the fireplace roar)

So really I'd better scurry

(Beautiful please don't hurry)

But maybe just a half a drink more

(Put some records on while I pour)"

"You've really been grand

(I thrill when you touch my hand)

But don't you see

(How can you do this thing to me?)

There's bound to be talk tomorrow

(Think of my life long sorrow)

At least there will be plenty implied

(If you caught pneumonia and died)"

[WordWolf]

"This evening has been

(Been hoping that you'd drop in)

So very nice

(I'll hold your hands, they're just like ice)

My mother will start to worry

(Beautiful what's your hurry?)

My father will be pacing the floor

(Listen to the fireplace roar)

So really I'd better scurry

(Beautiful please don't hurry)

But maybe just a half a drink more

(Put some records on while I pour)

The neighbors might think

(Baby, it's bad out there)

Say what's in this drink?

(No cabs to be had out there)

I wish I knew how

(Your eyes are like starlight now)

To break this spell

(I'll take your hat, your hair looks swell)

I ought to say, "No, no, no sir"

(Mind if I move in closer?)

At least I'm gonna say that I tried

(What's the sense in hurtin' my pride?)"

"You've really been grand

(I thrill when you touch my hand)

But don't you see

(How can you do this thing to me?)

There's bound to be talk tomorrow

(Think of my life long sorrow)

At least there will be plenty implied

(If you caught pneumonia and died)"

You old fogies have definitely heard this song before.

I'm reasonably sure everybody here's heard it at one time or another.

[Human without the bean]

That maybe. I'm pretty far from anything here.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

I think it's "Baby It's Cold Outside." It's an old jazz standard, but I couldn't give a particular performer.

George

[WordWolf]

I think it's "Baby It's Cold Outside." It's an old jazz standard, but I couldn't give a particular performer.

George

That's the song.

So many people have covered it (many of them crooners), that if you picked a name at random,

you'd probably be correct. So...?

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Bing Crosby?

George

[WordWolf]

Bing Crosby?

George

*checks*, Yes he did, no surprises there!

At least once, he did a duet with Doris Day on it, in fact.

Someone pointed out recently that the song sounds like it might be

about date rape, since it sounds like he might have given her

a Mickey in the song.

Hm. The wikipedia page is fascinating.

There's a really long list of artists who did this song

(Ricardo Montalban? Red Skelton? Sigorney Weaver?)

and some thoughts on the lyrics and the song's history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby,_It's_Cold_Outside

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"The lyrics in this duet are designed to be heard as a conversation between two people, marked as "mouse" and "wolf" on the printed score. Every line in the song features a statement from the "mouse" followed by a response from the "wolf". Usually the "wolf" part is sung by a male and the "mouse" by a female.

Criticisms of the song stem from a reading of the lyrics not as the "mouse" wanting to stay and only putting up a token protest for the sake of appearance as supported by lyrics such as "The neighbors might think...", "My father will be pacing the floor", but instead as the "mouse" genuinely wanting to leave but being stopped by the "wolf" being coercive in his pleading with the mouse. Examples of questionable lyrics in this regard include, "I simply must go", "The answer is no", "I've got to go home". There is also the line "Hey, what's in this drink", which could be taken to sound suspiciously like the "mouse" has been drugged."

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Ok, your turn!

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire

Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction

Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter

Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story

Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama

Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Archies, Righteous, Nilsson, Harry

Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin'

George

[Human without the bean]

This is a song that is a lot like Billy Joel's, " We didn't start the fire". However, I don't recognize any

of these lyrics.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

It was a one-hit wonder in the 70's

George

PS I may be more sporadic in visits to GS for the next few days.

[Human without the bean]

Sorry George, but It doesn't ring a bell.

I can't remember much from those years.

[GeorgeStGeorge]

Here's the whole first verse:

B.B. Bumble and the Stingers, Mott the Hoople, Ray Charles Singers

Lonnie Mack and twangin' Eddy, here's my ring we're goin' steady

Take it easy, take me higher, liar liar, house on fire

Locomotion, Poco, Passion, Deeper Purple, Satisfaction

Baby baby gotta gotta gimme gimme gettin' hotter

Sammy's cookin', Lesley Gore and Ritchie Valens, end of story

Mahavishnu, fujiyama, kama-sutra, rama-lama

Richard Perry, Spector, Barry, Archies, Righteous, Nilsson, Harry

Shimmy shimmy ko-ko bop and Fats is back and Finger Poppin'

George