Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Memory Lane: The Art Of Misheard Song Lyrics
You may still, at some point, hear Louis Armstrong sing a great ballad on an oldies station. He gets to the verse that sez the following words:
The bright, blessed days...
The dogs say 'Good night'
And I think to myself....
Wait a second. Dogs say 'Good night'???
You've been down this road a time or three, haven't you?
Satchmo actually sang, "The dark, sacred night...."
Great words from the classic, "What A Wonderful World".
Avid radio listeners have always thought that what they heard really was what they heard, no matter how strange the lyrics occasionally sounded. Like the time when Mary Chapin Carpenter sang about....
Passion and kisses
...and, of course, it was actually meant to say "passionate kisses", from the song of the same name.
Or when Johnny Rivers used to sing about a man who leads a life of danger in...
Secret Asian Man
You know that that was really "Secret Agent Man".
Remember Dionne Warwick when she did "Promises, Promises", and began with....
Promises, promises
Come off her with promises, promises now....?
And the lyric should read, "I'm all through with promises, promises now...."
One of the biggest classics in my book is when Elvis Presley belted out the song "Suspicious Minds" while doing his Hawaii concert album in 1973. When I first heard it in the 1980s, it was actually the very first time I'd heard the song, and many years before I would hear the studio version from 1969. But those first few words I came across had come out like this:
Recorded a trap
I can't walk on....
Now, you all know how it's supposed to go, right?
It's "We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out...."
The Who's "Baba O'Riley":
Out here in the fields
I've fumbled my meals....
Really, Case? When it should have been "I fight for my meals". Classic rock and album rock from back then used to be loaded with many songs that easily had misheard lyrics.
I'll leave you with Bob Seger's offering during the song "Her Strut", in which he launches into his chorus with this....
Oh, they love to watch her strut
Oh, they do respect your butt
They love to watch her strut.
Now, to be partially fair, that song was, in a way, about a woman's derriere. To phrase correctly, it is read like this:
Oh, they do respect her, but
They love to watch her strut.
Well, so would I.
The bright, blessed days...
The dogs say 'Good night'
And I think to myself....
Wait a second. Dogs say 'Good night'???
You've been down this road a time or three, haven't you?
Satchmo actually sang, "The dark, sacred night...."
Great words from the classic, "What A Wonderful World".
Avid radio listeners have always thought that what they heard really was what they heard, no matter how strange the lyrics occasionally sounded. Like the time when Mary Chapin Carpenter sang about....
Passion and kisses
...and, of course, it was actually meant to say "passionate kisses", from the song of the same name.
Or when Johnny Rivers used to sing about a man who leads a life of danger in...
Secret Asian Man
You know that that was really "Secret Agent Man".
Remember Dionne Warwick when she did "Promises, Promises", and began with....
Promises, promises
Come off her with promises, promises now....?
And the lyric should read, "I'm all through with promises, promises now...."
One of the biggest classics in my book is when Elvis Presley belted out the song "Suspicious Minds" while doing his Hawaii concert album in 1973. When I first heard it in the 1980s, it was actually the very first time I'd heard the song, and many years before I would hear the studio version from 1969. But those first few words I came across had come out like this:
Recorded a trap
I can't walk on....
Now, you all know how it's supposed to go, right?
It's "We're caught in a trap, I can't walk out...."
The Who's "Baba O'Riley":
Out here in the fields
I've fumbled my meals....
Really, Case? When it should have been "I fight for my meals". Classic rock and album rock from back then used to be loaded with many songs that easily had misheard lyrics.
I'll leave you with Bob Seger's offering during the song "Her Strut", in which he launches into his chorus with this....
Oh, they love to watch her strut
Oh, they do respect your butt
They love to watch her strut.
Now, to be partially fair, that song was, in a way, about a woman's derriere. To phrase correctly, it is read like this:
Oh, they do respect her, but
They love to watch her strut.
Well, so would I.
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I have a really hard time hearing words in lyrics.
As a child I listened to Purple People Eater and heard "Why is everybody always pickin' on MEAT" instead of ME.
I didn't know the beginning of Born to Be Wild until just a couple years ago "Get your motor runnin' ".
Oh there are many more.Posted 08-07-2018 at 11:08 PM by kitty61
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Elton John's "Tiny Dancer" sounds very close to "Tony Danza" and that is how my family sings it.
I thought "Life is a Highway" was "Love is a Highway" for years, and thought it wasn't very appropriate for the Disney movie Cars, because I thought the lyrics "I want to ride it all night night long" was pretty sexually suggestive, because I thought it was referring to riding love!Posted 09-14-2018 at 04:49 AM by trickydawn
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^^^ Hey, trickydawn! Thanks for stopping by. Yeah, I've been overdue with this subject matter, and I know that there are other lyrics that didn't come to me right away as I was writing this. Good point on Elton.
Here's another one: AC/DC's "All Night Long", and this one, I've heard two ways. The first one was:
You shoot me all night long....
And the other one was, ....
You should be all night long....
The correct lyrics, of course, are "You shook me all night long."Posted 09-16-2018 at 09:33 AM by case44
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Here's another gem: Nick Lowe from the late 1970s, with the lyrics which I thought sounded like "Cool To Be Kind".....
The actual title is Cruel To Be Kind.Posted 11-24-2018 at 06:53 PM by case44
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Just spotted another: We just lost Nancy Wilson (the R&B singer and not Ann Wilson's sis) a few days ago. Among her accomplishments was this misheard excerpt that's actually easy to do without knowing the actual lyrics.
And you don't know, you don't know, you don't know
How the hell I am....
It was actually "....how glad I am". Nancy had apparently phrased the word glad into two syllables, but it sure didn't sound like that word when you listen to it being played.Posted 12-17-2018 at 11:39 AM by case44
