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I looked it up George. He was the lead singer. I'm horrible with bands and names. I can guess a song sometimes but can't answer cause I don't know who sang it. icon_biggrin.gif:D-->

I had some music trivia buff friends so sometimes I remember odd things about a band/singer/song/album.....

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I thought surely you would get it George. icon_biggrin.gif:D-->

It's the Crash Test Dummies. I just love their music style. It's great dog-walking music. I just have to be careful about singing out loud while I'm walking....scares the neighbors.

Here's the lyrics and then I'll pick a different song:

Superman's Song

Crash Test Dummies

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Tarzan wasn't a ladies' man

He'd just come along and scoop 'em up under his arm

Like that, quick as a cat in the jungle

But Clark Kent, now there was a real gent

He would not be caught sittin' around in no

Junglescape, dumb as an ape doing nothing

Superman never made any money

For saving the world from Solomon Grundy

And sometimes I despair the world will never see

Another man like him

Hey Bob, Supe had a straight job

Even though he could have smashed through any bank

In the United States, he had the strength, but he would not

Folks said his family were all dead

Their planet crumbled but Superman, he forced himself

To carry on, forget Krypton, and keep going

Superman never made any money

For saving the world from Solomon Grundy

And sometimes I despair the world will never see

Another man like him

Tarzan was king of the jungle and Lord over all the apes

But he could hardly string together four words: "I Tarzan, You Jane."

Sometimes when Supe was stopping crimes

I'll bet that he was tempted to just quit and turn his back

On man, join Tarzan in the forest

But he stayed in the city, and kept on changing clothes

In dirty old phonebooths till his work was through

And nothing to do but go on home

Superman never made any money

For saving the world from Solomon Grundy

And sometimes I despair the world will never see

Another man like him

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quote:
Originally posted by Belle:

New song:

Philosophy is a walk on slippery rocks religion

is a light in the fog

The only "Crash Test Dummies" song most people know (if any) has no vowels in the

title.

This song, however, I know.

"What I am", by Edie Brickell, aka Mrs Paul Simon.

(Unless they divorced and I missed it.)

Technically, Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians.

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CORRECT!

According to local legend, the original song (which doesn't have the line

I used-it's a different line) was based on a house of ill-repute run by

madam Marianne LeSoleil Levant (Marianne the Rising Sun), and its door was

marked only with the rising sun. Local tours will show you the location, I

hear.

I like songs with trivia. Sue me.

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Close enough. It's actually "Silhouettes" by Herman's Hermits (starring Peter Noone). I was really into Herman's Hermits, and this was my favorite song. It wasn't until about 30 years later, though, when I heard a clear recording of the Rays' version, that I actually understood all the words. Until then, I hadn't known that the guy was actually at the wrong house!

You're up, Pirate.

George

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quote:
Originally posted by sharon:

u guys are making me feel old

Why, because you know the same songs we do?

I started listening to the radio about the time the Beatles hit it big. In more recent years, I've gotten into 50's rock and roll, especially Dion and Little Richard. Unfortunately, in the past year Houston's "oldies" station has abandoned the 50's, now playing only 60's and 70's songs. (And I'm really getting tired of hearing Wings and Elton John all the time!)

George

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Pirate, I love "I'm Henry the Eighth I Am"!!! icon_biggrin.gif:D-->

I'm also quite the Parrot Head. When I moved to Florida, I thought I'd be sitting on the beach at a tiki bar singing Jimmy Buffet Songs like, "Why Don't We Get Drunk & Screw" and sipping fruity drinks with little umbrellas in them. Boy was I wrong!! Work gets in the way too much!!

But I do know my Jimmy Buffet songs anyway somehow. wink2.gif;)-->

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