All right, I stole the following meme idea from Ordinary Girl and Ridger:
Step 1: Put your MP3 player or whatever on random.Unfortunately, right now I’ve got only Latin Jazz on my iPod. No words whatsoever.
Step 2: Post the first line from the first 25 songs that play, no matter how embarrassing the song.
Step 3: Post and let everyone you know guess what song and artist the lines come from.
Step 4: Strike through when someone gets them right. I'll put it in italics if the title has been gotten, but not the artist.
Step 5: Looking them up on Google or any other search engine is CHEATING.
So I decided that I would go through my iTunes library and select songs. Since I’ve been accused by some in the Atheosphere of being elitist and snobbish, I wanted everyone to see the kind of musical drivel I sometimes enjoy. Here are the first lines, although I use the word “lines” loosely.
- A-wha a-wha
- Ayyyyyy-hey. Oh, yeah, baby
Bomp-b-b-bompBang bang shoot ‘em up- Botch-a-me I’ll botch-a-you
Deh dum ah-tah dum ah-tah dum ah doot-doo- Dig, man [HINT: spoken, not sung]
- Don don-don don
- Doo doo-dee-oot doot doo doo-dee-oot
- Ee-ee-ee-yee
Fee-fee fie-fie fo-fo fum- Gadji beri bimba clandridi
- Hey-ey-ey hey-ey-ey
Iko Iko- I wonder wonder who who-oo-oo who
- Ohhh oh-oh oh wha-ah-ah
- Oh-oh-oh yes
- Ooga chaka ooga ooga
- Oo yeah-eh-eh-eh yeah
Salt peanuts, salt peanutsSplish splash- Uh-heyyyyyyyyyy do it now
- Uh-weh-ell
- Whoa-oh-oh I
Yip-yip yip-yip yip-yip yip-yip
[NOTE: Italics didn't show up so well with these nonsense syllables, so for clarity's sake I've added red as well. Evo came up with a novel twist: right artist(s), wrong song. That's what the blue is for.]
[CHALLENGE: Somewhere on this page is a nonsense line that never existed, but it's made from two different nonsense lines that did. I thought some wiseass would call me on it, but nope. So: (1) What's the line that never was, and what are the two lines that it's made from? (2) What are the names of the songs? (3) Name the artists that recorded them. Question 3 is ambiguous, since one of those lines was recorded by many artists. But since I have neither of those songs in my iTunes library, I'll accept any artist that recorded either of them.]
Okay, I've got two:
ReplyDelete20. Salt Peanuts - Dizzy Gillespie
21. Splish Splash - Bobby Darrin
I think you got a couple out of order, though. 22 and 17 actually comprise a two movement piece performed by a group known as Hot, Horny Couple. The first movement opens with the phrase, "Uh heyyyyyyyy, do it NOW!" The second movement concludes with the couple singing, in perfect unison (of course), "oh-oh-oh, YES!" Post-duet cigarettes are optional.
I got # 14. The first two words are the name of the song. Professor Longhair?
ReplyDeleteBut you for got #26. "Old MacDonald had a farm, E-I-E-I-O"
15 - Who wrote the book of love?
ReplyDelete20 & 21 - What Chappy said
6, 8, & 23 I should know, 'cause I can hear 'em, but I can't think of the names.
This is cheating. It's not the entire first line for some of them!
ReplyDeleteI think 24 is Why Do Fools Fall In Love. 18 is the Trogs and I think it's called "Hooked On A Feeling". Number 3 - Blue Moon? Defintely agree with Ridger on 15.
11. Charlie Brown
ReplyDeleteCrazy!
chaplain:
ReplyDeleteCompletely right on numbers 20 and 21.
SI:
Right on the title of #14, but not on the artist.
Ridger:
Right on the title of #15, but you didn't supply the artist(s).
Evo:
Well, you're wrong on #24, although that song may appear elsewher in the list. Right on the title of #18, but wrong about the artist; this is a very specific recording. Right on the title of #3, but you didn't supply the artist(s).
Tina:
Right on #11, but you didn't supply the artists.
Ok, number 6 for WDFFIL, Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers. I have no idea who sang "Hooked" if not the Trogs. I should know who sang Blue Moon, but I don't. I hate guessing '50s and early '60s. 24 almost sounds like a Beatles song from '64, but I think you cut off before the Beatles. If I'm wrong, it sounds like I Should've Known Better.
ReplyDeleteEvo:
ReplyDeleteCompletely right on #6. You've got the right artists but the wrong song for #24.
Of course, YOU would break the mold. Now I have to invent an entirely different way to show that the artist was guessed but the song was wrong. How about blue?
On 24, how about the Beatles, "There's a Place"?
ReplyDeleteOn 14, Iko Iko I have it on my copy of the soundtrack from "The Big Easy", but it was performed by the Dixie Cups. The only other version I know of is by the Grateful Dead, and I have multiple copies of that.
There's a line like that in #24 by the Silhouettes, Get a Job, but it's not the first line.
Sha na na na, Sha na na na na
yip yip yip yip etc
Get a job
The Oldies band Sha Na Na, that played at Woodstock, took their name from the song.
SI:
ReplyDeleteOn #24, it is the Beatles, but it's not "There's a Place."
On #14, it is "Iko Iko" but it's not the Dixie Cups or the Grateful Dead.
I'm assuming that you meant to type #25, not #24, and you're completely right. It's "Get a Job" by the Silhouettes. "Yip-yip ..." is the first line, by the way. Good work, you old geezer.
OK> My last guess for # 24.
ReplyDeleteI Should Have Known Better
SI:
ReplyDeleteYou're in the right Beatles period, but you're still wrong. (The first line of "I Should Have Known Better" is ... "I.")
3. Blue Moon, Marcels?
ReplyDelete4. Spaceman, Nilsson
11. Charlie Brown, Coasters
18. Hooked on a Feeling, BJ Thomas
I'll be smacking myself when I get number 24, I have no doubt.
Vfor:
ReplyDeleteYou've correctly supplied the artists for #3 and #11, and you're completely right on #4.
You must be an old geezer, too.
#18 was not a BJ, Thomas or otherwise.
Eight Days a week?
ReplyDeleteAww, SI. Wrong again. But your knowledge of Beatles titles is impressive. Who the hell else besides you and me remembers "There's a Place"?
ReplyDeleteI give up.
ReplyDeleteI remember that "There's a Place" was on the flip side (of the 45, for you younger folk) of one of their bigger hits. Either "She Loves You", Or "I want to Hold Your Hand". I think.
Both the A and B sides of most of the Beatles songs used to make the charts. "Rain" backed by "Paperback Writer". "Penny Lane " backed by "Strawberry Fields Forever" etc.
Ex: At least mine have words. The only one I knew on yours was Splish Splash and that went quick.
ReplyDelete(((Billy))):
ReplyDeleteMine have words, too. They're just not in English -- or, for the most part, in any other known language.
Holy crap, I don't know any of those, or do I? I'll just wait for the answers.
ReplyDeleteEx (to SI) Who the hell else besides you and me remembers "There's a Place"?
ReplyDeleteThe-e-e-e-re
There's a place
Where I can go
When I feel low
When I feel blue
And it's my miiind
And there's a tiiiiime
I think of you
The things you do
The things you said
Go round my head
How about Please, Please Me?
Or Mr. Postman?
Iko Iko is performed by so many people down here, but I don't know how many recorded it. Dixie Cups is the most commonly played, which is probably why the Big Easy used that one.
ReplyDeleteSo if it's not the Dixie Cups, then I would guess Dr. John or the Nevilles.
If not, then I can't imagine who you've got.
bullet:
ReplyDeleteDr. John is correct.
Uh... is it time for you to reveal the answers?
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