Four Hundred Children and a Crop In the Field

[Hervard]

Jun 20, 2018 17:24:48 GMT -5 OldSchoolAT40Fan said:

When I first heard Expose's "Point of No Return" as a teen, I could of sworn I heard "Phooey" prior to each of the first two occurrences of the chorus.

Was that when they were singing, "Ooh baby"?

[bobbo428]

Here are some misheard lyrics from the mid/late-1960s, when I was age 5 to 7:

. CHERRIES IS THE WORD
instead of "Cherish" in the Association hit
. A-MORNING-A-DAH 11/66
what I thought the singer in the New Vaudeville Band was saying at the end of "Winchester Cathedral"
. KOOL-AID ON A SUNDAY AFTERNOON 06/67
instead of "Groovin'" (Young Rascals)
. AND WENDY AND STORMY EYES 06/67
"Wendy" instead of "Windy"--I had a next-door neighbor named Wendy at the time.
05/68
I thought, in "Mrs. Robinson," Simon & Garfunkel were singing about a geometric shape called a "sympathetigon" instead of "sympathetic eyes". Later in the song, I thought they were saying "Going to the camp on today's date" instead of "candidates' debate" because neither of the latter two words were in my vocabulary yet in May 1968.

[bobbo428]

When these songs, all of which I just heard on the 1974 countdown, first came out, these are what I thought some of the lyrics were:

. THESE ARE THE BLUES THAT NUMBER
what I thought Steely Dan's song was called when I first heard it, early June 1974

. DANCING TIME I FEEL LIKE MAKING LOVE
what I thought Roberta Flack was singing instead of “That’s the time” in “Feel like Makin’ Love”

. I FEEL LIKE A GREEN BAY ALOU
From Abba’s “Waterloo” when they were actually singing “I feel like I win when I lose”--I actually thought Abba was singing about Green Bay (the Packers) but also one of the Alou brothers, who were all in the major leagues at the time--but in baseball. I guess you could call it a football-baseball mondegreen.

. I’VE GROWN TIRED, AND THE TUNGSTEN’S HERE BEFORE ME
from "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me"
. EYESHOT CHERRIES
Eric Clapton’s “I Shot the Sheriff”)

. AIN’T IT GOOD, AIN’T IT A RIOT THAT YOU ARE WITH ME...
Andy Kim's "Rock Me Gently"

. IT WON’T REACH A RECORD HIGH 08/74
Guess Who’s “Clap for the Wolfman,” when they sing “He will rate your records high”--analogous to A weather forecaster saying that we wouldn't reach a daily record high temperature.

[doofus67]

Elton John and Kiki Dee, "Don't Go Breaking My Heart": About halfway through, when EJ sings, "so don't misunderstand me," I always thought it was "so don't distort the sound"!

Doofus

[chrislc]

On I'm Gonna Make You Mine it sounds like Lou Christie sings

You'll have to turn me away like an indestructible bore.

It really does.

BTW not that there's anything wrong with it, but are there any other males out there who are afraid of being caught looking at videos or photos of Lou Christie?

[Dale Latimer]

^I've been fairly good at lyrics, and furrow my brow at those in the last few months in this thread, but I agree with you on the Christie line (the actual last word is "force")... Lou is a good friend of Kent Kotal (the forgottenhits.com site and its sister blog at blogspot, where I found the complaint recently about sped-up 70s shows blamed on Shannon Lynn) so he can't be that bad...

dL

[mkarns]

Here's one that I thought I misheard but didn't: "Love Will Find a Way" by Yes (1987). I thought it went "Here is my heart, waiting for you. Here is my soul, I eat at Chez Nous". Then I checked a lyrics site and found that those are the actual lyrics. I don't know what Jon Anderson's fondness for French cuisine has to do with love finding a way to anything, but there you go.

[bobbo428]

I just heard "The Love I Lost" by Harold Melvin, on the 1973 countdown. One misheard lyric from when I was age 12 was "The love I lost was a seagull/The love I lost was Katrina." There were a lot of ads for the book/movie Jonathan Livingston Seagull at the time, thus possibly explaining this mondegreen.

[Michael1973]

Dec 8, 2018 14:09:46 GMT -5 mkarns said:

Here's one that I thought I misheard but didn't: "Love Will Find a Way" by Yes (1987). I thought it went "Here is my heart, waiting for you. Here is my soul, I eat at Chez Nous". Then I checked a lyrics site and found that those are the actual lyrics. I don't know what Jon Anderson's fondness for French cuisine has to do with love finding a way to anything, but there you go.

Same here. I couldn't believe that was the actual lyric!

[mga707]

Dec 1, 2018 21:07:33 GMT -5 chrislc said:

On I'm Gonna Make You Mine it sounds like Lou Christie sings

You'll have to turn me away like an indestructible bore.

It really does.

BTW not that there's anything wrong with it, but are there any other males out there who are afraid of being caught looking at videos or photos of Lou Christie?

Not at all--"I'm Gonna Make You Mine" is one of the most perfect pure pop records ever recorded! Irresistible 'hook'.

[at40nut]

There was a time where I thought I was hearing "Turn To Stone, A Year Ago, I Turn To Stone" in ELO's "Turn To Stone" Of Course it's "Turn To Stone, When You Are Gone, I Turn To Stone".

[chrislc]

Okay so I was just listening to Barry Manilow singing Sailing - and after 38 1/2 years I now know that Christopher Cross wasn't singing "all caught up in the rat race".

[chrislc]

This isn't exactly the same as misunderstanding a lyric, but I just thought I would mention -

MusicProf78 on YouTube has just released his collection of 1966 singles, and I was listening to them when I heard the beginning of a song called Ten Years Time Ago by The Happenings.

Yikes that is defintely a different sound for The Happenings, I thought.

Yeah, so it was Happenings Ten Years Time Ago by The Yardbirds.

So nothing to see here! Everybody move along!

[at40nut]

When Phoebe Snow starts singing the second verse in the 1975 duet with Paul Simon "Gone At Last", it sounds like she is saying "I ain't dumb, I kicked her a** so I don't fall to easily."

[chrislc]

When Carly and James (mostly James) sang "I might rise above, I might go below" - I thought he was singing "I might rise above my golden dome".