Cryptically-disguised song lyrics

Trollheart · 01-13-2023, 08:06 PM

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Originally Posted by GD

The Monkees - "I'm a believer"
I knew the song immediately, but I had to look up what it was actually called

David Bowie - "Heroes"
I'm getting the Bowie ones easily but some of the others are giving me trouble

Correct x 2. The Monkees song was written by Neil Diamond, in case you care.

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Originally Posted by ribbons

The Ronettes - "Be My Baby"

The rotating skulls did it for me. "We'll make them turn their heads everywhere we go."

Aye babe

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Originally Posted by ribbons

The Hollies - "He Ain't Heavy (He's My Brother)"

Affirmative

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Originally Posted by Saulaac

"He ain't heavy, he's my brother". Don't know the artist. Wild guess, an American. Jimmy Webb!

"I can't live, if living is without youuu"! - The Carpenters?

I'm resisting the urge to look these up. No..musn't..google..them..no..resist..aargh!

Close but not quite. "He Ain't Heavy" was made famous and recorded by The Hollies indeed. "Without You" is not written by, but made famous by Harry Nilsson. Was actually written by guys from the band (snigger) Badfinger.

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Originally Posted by ribbons

Harry Nilsson - "Without You"

The telling lines (for me) in bold above: "But I guess that's just the way the story goes / You always smile, but in your eyes your sorrow shows / Yes, it shows."

You got it

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Originally Posted by ribbons

My guess was The Hollies - but I don't know if Jimmy Webb also recorded it!

It wasn't.

rubber soul · 01-14-2023, 11:32 AM

Without You didn't chart for Badfinger, at least not in the US. That would have to wait for Nilsson's rendition when it would become a monster hit for him.

The single that came off No Dice (Badfinger's second LP and the one that featured Without You) was No Matter What. That ended up on Billboard's Top Ten peaking at number eight. Not so bad.

Mucha na Dziko · 01-14-2023, 11:34 AM

Oh, well, too bad for them. These guys really didn't deserve all that had happened to them.

I mean, such a great band, and with such promise, and starting your career by being buddies with the Beatles, McCartney producing a couple of their songs, playing on All Things Must Pass, with a really talented songwriter at the helm and all.

When I discovered them a couple of years back, I just couldn't believe what I'm hearing and it's only this year that I got to know their history.

Saulaac · 01-27-2023, 12:07 PM

Yes that's it! Well found

One more to go. So far, absolutely no eye deer

rubber soul · 01-30-2023, 09:08 AM

Whew. Glad to see you back, Trolls. I was getting worried about you.

Saulaac · 01-30-2023, 12:42 PM

Ah, jolly good to see you back, TH. The break gave me the chance to finish reading my thesaurus (or is it thesaurus)..

Trollheart · 01-30-2023, 01:21 PM

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Originally Posted by ribbons

So glad you're back - I've been worried but didn't want to be nosy!

Glad it was nothing serious with you and Karen - and only a router problem (as annoying as that is).

Missed you!

There's no way I would ever consider you nosy, honey, and any email or PM from you will always be very welcome. Thanks for thinking of me.

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Originally Posted by Saulaac

Ah, jolly good to see you back, TH. The break gave me the chance to finish reading my thesaurus (or is it thesaurus)..

Thanks. It's good to be back.

Looks like the two of you are the only ones playing this, so thanks for that.

ribbons · 01-30-2023, 01:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

There's no way I would ever consider you nosy, honey, and any email or PM from you will always be very welcome. Thanks for thinking of me.

Thanks. It's good to be back.

Now that you've encouraged me, I'll bombard your inbox and demand to know your whereabouts at all times. Watch out for this rolling pin!

This thread is so much fun and a challenge, and no doubt our friend theSaulaac agrees. (ugh! that was a corny one wasn't it?)

Trollheart · 01-30-2023, 02:07 PM

My inbox awaits your input oooer.

Always wondered how a dinosaur managed to write a grammar book, but I guess that's why they went extinct: too much of the old nose (beak? Snout?) in books so they didn't see the asteroid coming.

I can just see it now:

"There's a huge fiery rock coming towards us!"

"Well now: you could have said, a stone on fire, a burning chunk of earth, an... asteroid? Yes, an aster- oh dear! No volume 2 then!"

ribbons · 01-30-2023, 02:20 PM

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