Illogical Lyrics

[johns]

Perfectly logical to me, John....

Who are The Cult, by the way?

Graham

One of the finest rock bands ever aer kid..

Check this out!! >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BumL6kHf0Qg

[Phil Carter]

Yes, I remember some of them! The Piglets and Johnny Reggae (lay it on me!!) and a revolting single called Loop Di Love (I think) with the legend I saw you walking down our street, your hair was hanging at your feet.

Yes, he could well have been JtR - or perhaps the Stripper!

Sorry Robert, a tiny hijack here, please forgive me...but I had to do it...


Limehouse.....I will endeavour to give you the full list.. I think this is it...

King had hits with or recorded as:-

1965 EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON/Summer's Coming 4 (UK)
1965 GREEN IS THE GRASS/Creation
1965 WHERE THE SUN HAS NEVER SHONE/Don't Talk To Me Of Protest
1965 GREEN IS THE GRASS/Where The Sun Has Never Shone
1966 JUST LIKE A WOMAN/Land Of The Golden Tree
1966 ICICLES (Fell From The Heart Of A Bluebird)/In A Hundred Years From
Now
1967 SEAGULLS/Take A Look At Yourself Babe
1967 ROUND ROUND/Time And Motion
1968 1968 (Message To The Presidential Candidates)/Colloquial Sex
1969 EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON/Round Round (reissue)
1969 LET IT ALL HANG OUT/Colloquial Sex
1970 MILLION DOLLAR BASH/City Of Angels
1970 CHERRY CHERRY/Gay Girl
1971 LAZYBONES/I Just Want To Say Thank You
1971 HOOKED ON A FEELING/I Don't Want To Be Gay
1971 IT'S THE SAME OLD SONG/Weathermen
1971 SUGAR SUGAR/Main Line Lady ........by Sakkarin
1971 LEAP UP & DOWN (WAVE YOUR KNICKERS IN THE AIR)/How You
Gonna Tell Me
by St. Cecilia's

1971 KEEP ON DANCING/Alright
Bay City Rollers**

1971 JOHNNY REGGAE/Backing Track by The Piglets

1971 THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON/Bernie's Song by Nemo

1971 HANG ON SLOOPY/What You Think Is Just A Joke by Sakkarin

1972 FLIRT/Hey Jim
1972 WHO'S BEEN POLISHING THE SUN/Yo Dee O Do by Nemo
unknown
1972 IT'S A TALL ORDER FOR A SHORT GUY/Learned Tax Counsel
1972 THEME FROM THE 1972 MUNICH OLYMPICS/Instrumental
1972 LOOP DI LOVE/Lay It Down by Shag
1972 THIS IS REGGAE/Blanket Coverage by The Piglets
unknown
1972 BABY LOVE/My Fault by The Piglets
unknown
1972 C'MON MA/How Come by St. Cecilia's
unknown
1972 ROCK AROUND THE CLOCK/Bubblerock Is Here To Stay by Bubblerock

1973 MARY, MY LOVE/A Little Bit Left Of Right
1973 EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON/Summer's Coming (reissue)
1973 (I CAN'T GET NO) SATISFACTION/Bubblerock Is Here To Stay
by Bubblerock

1973 KUNG FU ANTHEM/Modest Proposal
1973 THE KUNG FU ANTHEM/A Little Bit Left Of Right
1973 BONGO ROCK/Clap & Shout by Shag
1974 HOOKED ON A FEELING/I Don't Want To Be Gay (reissue)
1974 THE WAY YOU LOOK TONIGHT/The True Story Of Molly Malone
1974 HELP ME MAKE IT THROUGH THE NIGHT/Colloquial Sex
1974 PAPER MOON/Paul's Song by Nemo
1974 GET OFF MY CLOUD/People Don't Like Me by Bubblerock
1974 PEOPLE WILL SAY WE'RE IN LOVE/People Don't Like Me by Bubblerock
1975 TWIST & SHOUT/I'll Slap Your Face by Bubblerock
1975 FREE MAN IN PARIS/True Story Of Molly Malone
1975 UNA PALOMA BLANCA/Inpraiseofuk
1975 BABY THE RAIN MUST FALL/A Very, Very Melancholy Man
1975 CHICK-A-BOOM (DON'T YA JES LOVE IT)/Kingmaker by 53rd & 3rd featuring The Sound Of Shag
1976 IN THE MOOD/? by Sound 9418
1976 HAPPY PEOPLE SONG/I've Never Seen A Woman
1976 LITTLE LATIN LUPE LU/Sex Appeal
1976 HE'S SO FINE/King Of The Hooks
1976 IT ONLY TAKES A MINUTE/? by 100 Ton And A Feather
1976 LAZYBONES/I Just Want To Say Thank You (reissue)
1976 MISSISSIPPI/Little Greatest Love
1976 WHEN I WAS A STAR/Little Greatest Love
1976 RUB IT IN/Holiday Humour
1977 ROLY/We've Got A Feeling by 53rd & 3rd feat. The Sound of Shag
1978 OLD DJ'S (PLAYING NEW SONGS)/I'm The One
1978 ONE FOR YOU, ONE FOR ME/Cryin' Again
1978 LICK A SMURP FOR XMAS (ALL FALL DOWN)/Sing Your Own Smurp
by Father Abraphart & The Smurps
1979 YOU'RE THE GREATEST LOVER/In Praise Of The Unicorn
1979 GLORIA/Mental Diseases
1979 YOU WANT TO KNOW A SECRET/Carole's Song by 100 Ton And A
Feather
1979 UNA PALOMA BLANCA/Everyone's Gone To The Moon (reissue)
1980 IT'S ILLEGAL, IT'S IMMORAL, IT'S UNHEALTHY.../Sing Your Own
Immorality
1982 LOOP DI LOVE/Lay It Down (reissue) by Shag
1982 EVERYONE'S GONE TO THE MOON/Summer's Coming (reissue)
1984 SPACE ODDITY/I'LL SLAP YOUR FACE//Major Tom Is Coming Home
1985 I'LL SLAP YOUR FACE/No Speed Limit
1986 GIMME SOME/Crying Again/Royal Mix
1987 WILD WORLD/?
1989 THE SUN HAS GOT HIS HAT ON/Everyone's Gone To The Moon/
Johnny Reggae/Mental Diseases (reissue) by Nemo/JK/Piglets/JK


Other singles:
GOD SAVE THE SEX PISTOLS/? by Elizabeth

53RD & 3RD & THE SOUND OF SHAG/? 53rd & 3rd feat. The Sound
of Shag

+This was nothing more than JK singing new lyrics to...get ready...it's true..I swear...... "Deutschland Uber Alles"! ("One as one we stand together/Fighting champions to the end/If we lose, we'll still remember/All good sportsmen can be friends...") The B side was the instrumental track played in reverse! Unfortunately, the subsequent events at the 1972 Munich Olympics ensured the record's immediate withdrawl. It is now a collectors item!

**Believe it or not, JK did more on the Rollers' debut single than they did! (According to King, he overdubbed the vocals on that song 13 times!)

He produced "It's Good News Week" by Hedgehoppers Anonymous and later "Johnny Reggae" by The Piglets, and also discovered, named and produced Genesis...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He produced the hits "Leap Up And Down Wave Your Knickers In The Air" for St Cecilia and also the Bay City Rollers; singing backing vocals on their first hit, "Keep on Dancing".....(OH-----MY------GOD!!!)

In 1975, a rendition under his own name of "Una Paloma Blanca" was named Record of the Year at the Ivor Novello Awards.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

His own record label, UK Records had dozens of hits with artistes such as 10cc, whom he also named,
Terry Dactyl and the Dinosaurs "Seaside Shuffle",
Roy C "Shotgun Wedding",
Carl Malcolm with "Fattie Bum Bum",
The First Class with "Beach Baby",
Lobo "Baby I'd Love You To Want Me", and many others, sometimes three or four on the charts at the same time.

Because "Everyone's gone to the moon" sold over 4 million copies world wide...he was set up for a long, long time...


Yup, more faces than JTR on a cold night in October.


Again, apologies to Robert, but the name Jonathan King is synonymous with lyrics that are at times totally terrible!

best wishes

Phil

[Limehouse]

Hi Phil,

Wow! What a fantastic piece of research.

So we have King to blame for Genesis! Even more reason to detest him!

Didn't he also try to re-record 'I Can't Let Maggie Go' (Honeybus c1968) following Thatcher's booting from parliament?

One thing is for sure - with that list, he's no threat to Simon Callow!

Julie

[Phil Carter]

Hello Julie,

Once upon a time a loooooong time ago.... I was in the music industry ;-)

Yes, he named Genesis AND 10cc...

Yes, he did do that remake of the Honeybus song, which sank quicker than the Titanic!

In the middle 60's he was the golden boy at Decca records... until Tom Jones took over that is......don't think JK had as much chest hair!

best wishes

Phil

[Limehouse]

Wow!

Did you catch any of the posts a good while ago now about Joe Meek?

I saw the stage play in London and was discussing it with Graham, a poster who gets around the boards a bit so you may have exchanged with him.

We were discussing his talent and his sad demise and, joined by others, we had quite a chin wag about the 1960s and the acts that were not the Beatles!

I don't care for Tom Jones and although I was a teenager in the 1970s Genesis and 10cc must have been among my most unfavourite groups (although Peter Gabriel is enormously talented).

Despite the naff nature of many of his 'acts' JK must have had a lot of talent (and courage!) to convince record labels to distribute his material.

We will have to lobby for a music division on the site. There is so much to discuss. I'm thinking of starting a thread about 'mis-heard lyrics' - starting with my childhood mystification at why someone should strive so hard to be a 'Paperbag Writer'.

[tji]

Hi Caz

"If I were a sculptor - but then again no"

Or a man who makes potions in a travelling show

tj

[caz]

Hi tj,

Indeed, and neither thought goes anywhere. Would the flamboyant songster have gone on to make a bust for his love if he were a sculptor? Would he have cured his love's acne with the potions? We simply don't know, as Sir Patrick Moore would say. This should have been clarified with Bernie Taupin right at the start. It's a disgrace.

Re Jonathan King, his bloody auntie tried to teach me needlework at primary school in the early 60s, for which I can never forgive her. I hated it, and left an unfinished apron I was making at home so I wouldn't have to show everyone my rotten sewing. She made me go home and fetch it (I only lived a few yards away sadly).

She was our class teacher and on another occasion she got us all to write diaries and said that if we couldn't think of anything interesting to say we could make it up. So I took her at her word and wrote that my dad had fallen off his bicycle on the way to work and broken his leg. I got a good mark because I wrote the story well. Boy was my face red on Open Day when Jonathan King's auntie asked my mum how my dad's leg was after his nasty accident. Mum looked at me in astonishment and said "He doesn't ride a bicycle, goes to work by train and there's nothing wrong with his legs".

Love,

Caz
X

[Robert]

Limehouse, misheard lyrics is a good one, also out of date lyrics, i.e, lyrics that will have today's teenagers scratching their heads and saying "Eh?"

Examples :

Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke



Time goes by and he pays off his debts,
Got a TV set and a radio.....
For seven shillings a week



Should have told her that I can't linger
There's a wedding ring on my finger


And on its way to join them : Warrior in Woolworths.

[Phil Carter]

Caz,

Oh the happy memories you must have! LOL

Robert... generation shift?

Small Faces.. Lazy Sunday...
Wouldn't it be nice, to get on with me neighbours...
But they make it very clear, they've got no room for ravers....

Today's generation would think of ravers as something completely different than we were young!

best wishes

Phil

[Robert]

Phil, also from the Small Faces :

Want to know how the story ends?
We invited just a few close friends.

[Limehouse]

Hi tj,
Re Jonathan King, his bloody auntie tried to teach me needlework at primary school in the early 60s, for which I can never forgive her. I hated it, and left an unfinished apron I was making at home so I wouldn't have to show everyone my rotten sewing. She made me go home and fetch it (I only lived a few yards away sadly).
Love,
Caz
X

Glad to know I wasn't the only 'needlework dunce!' I was hopeless! I always got my thread in knots, pricked my fingers and sewed such wonky lines of tacking stitch the teacher would cut through it and make me start again. Such misery!

[Robert]

Another Elton John one for Caz :

Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it's cold as hell
And there's no one there to raise them if you did

"Sweet Scarlet" by Cat Stevens has the lines :

Come let us drink again before the second show
I want you so to know there's no bridge between us

No bridge? Isn't this the opposite of what he means?

[caz]

Good ones, Robert.

Hi Limehouse,

Thankfully, when I got to secondary school in 1965 we only did needlework in the first year. Our teacher was barking mad and we all had to make gonks (remember them?) which were neither use nor ornament. One day she shouted at us for rustling our paper patterns while she was telling us how to use them. She said if she heard one more rustle she'd make us sit there rustling our patterns for the whole lesson. Now that would have been preferable to making a gonk any day.

All I wanted to do in those days was get home each night to play my pop records. But first I had to get from Hammersmith to bleedin' Southfields - thanks mum! I had strange tastes in music in those days - Cilla's "You're My World" would be followed by "The Last Time" by the Stones or "Working in a Coal Mine" by Lee Dorsey.

Love,

Caz
X

[Phil Carter]

Robert..

How very fitting...

[Robert]

Here are two illogical lyrics involving numbers :

"The Deadwood Stage" (Doris Day) :

Here's the man the sheriff watches
On his gun there's more than 27 notches

One might say that there are more than 20, or nearly 30, but more than 27? Of course, it's the only thing that would fit the tune.

"The Sounds Of Silence " (Simon and Garfunkel) :

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more

Yes, as he looked at the people he must have been thinking, "I wonder if there are more than ten thousand there, or is it exactly ten thousand?"