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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2019 11:46:23 GMT -5
 The Beatles: 'I Wanna Hold Your Hand'
Actual lyric: "I wanna hold your hand." Just to confuse matters, John Lennon used to sing the misheard version at the height of Beatlemania! |
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Post by edindetroit on Dec 20, 2019 12:41:48 GMT -5
What I heard: Dirty deeds and the thunder chief.
Actual Lyric: Dirty deeds and they're done dirt cheap.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 20, 2019 15:43:34 GMT -5
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Post by edindetroit on Dec 23, 2019 6:58:22 GMT -5
Emerson Lake & Palmer Karn Evil 9, 3Rd Impression
What I heard: Guardians of a nuclear zone.
Actual lyric: Guardians of a new clear dawn.
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Post by edindetroit on Jan 24, 2020 12:06:41 GMT -5
The Beatles Real Love
What I heard: Lonely to be alone, lonely to be alone.
Actual lyric: Don't need to be alone, No need to be alone
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Post by SUVFan on Oct 14, 2020 12:09:49 GMT -5
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Post by SUVFan on Nov 5, 2020 12:14:15 GMT -5
I was listening to the 60s on 6 Satellite Survey Countdown from the last week of October of 1967 a short while ago. The #2 song that week was Sam and Dave's Soul Man. In checking it out afterward, apparently there are a lot of misheard lyrics associated with this song. Narrator/Host Dave Hoeffel shared the most famous one (I misheard it during the song!) apparently made by The Blues Brothers in their 1978 cover: Hoeffel also cleared up another misconception: That Sam & Dave's Woodstock reference was to the famous festival. Woodstock didn't happen until August of '69, about two years after the song's release! The Woodstock reference in the song was actually a reference to the high school in Memphis that David Porter, the lyricist of the song, attended. Another alternative for "good stock" according to the link is "good scotch". Now that's an education worthy of bragging about! |
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Post by SUVFan on May 28, 2021 15:51:58 GMT -5
One of my least favorite songs, Midnight at the Oasis, was playing on SeriusXM's 70s on 7 this afternoon. Hearing the second line of the song as "sing my camel to bed", I wondered what sense does that make? So I searched for it on my phone, having to type only "Sing my cam" into the browser before the lyric I heard was the search suggestion.
I learned that it's actually, "Send my camel to bed", which at least sounds remotely possible.
I read the rest of the song's lyrics and while I still don't like it, at least I have one less reason to dislike it when I hear it in the future before flipping stations.
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Post by SUVFan on Oct 22, 2021 8:17:53 GMT -5
This meme, presenting a parody of the Eurythmics' 1983 hit Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), is based on what I learned to be a commonly misheard lyric dating at least to 1993:  According to this blog post: |
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Post by SUVFan on Jul 12, 2022 18:34:06 GMT -5
I was listening to last weeks 60s Satellite Survey from 1969 a little while ago. Show host Dave Hoeffel introduced the #11 song by saying it was one of the top songs with misheard lyrics. The song was Bad Moon Rising by Creedence Clear Water Revival: Misheard Lyrics:
Don't come around tonight It's bound to take all night There's a bathroom on the right. Original Lyrics:
Don't go around tonight Well, it's bound to take your life There's a bad moon on the rise. Hoeffel focused only on the bathroom on the right but he's only got so much time. Apparently, there's a lot of this song that's misunderstood. |
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Post by edindetroit on Aug 14, 2022 9:02:38 GMT -5
Unchained Melody
Song by The Righteous Brothers
What I heard: Volare (drawn out)
Actual lyrics: Woah, my love, my darling
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Post by edindetroit on Oct 12, 2022 10:33:31 GMT -5
Bee Gees More than a Woman
What I heard:
The little woman
The little woman to me
Actual lyrics:
More than a woman
More than a woman to me
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Post by SUVFan on Oct 19, 2022 13:17:27 GMT -5
This meme (there are also t-shirts) is probably more of a punny play on words than a misheard situation but it kind of fits for Bill Withers' Ain't No Sunshine:  Edit: The original meme disappeared, so I replaced it with something similar. Original:
Ain't no Sunshine When She's gone. Misheard:
Ain't no sunshine When Cheese gone. |
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Post by SUVFan on Oct 30, 2022 7:22:00 GMT -5
Another meme, this one picturing a guy in a body of water with a fishing pole, is my source for this one:
Artist: Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
Song: The Waiting (1981)
Real Lyric: The waiting is the hardest part
Misheard: The wading is the hardest part
Meme:
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Post by edindetroit on Nov 1, 2022 19:57:29 GMT -5
A friend misheard this one
Actual lyrics: Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the ole oak tree
What he heard: Tiny yellow river' round the ole oak tree
He said he thought they must have a lot of dogs in that town
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