Mispronunciations in music

Somehow, I don't think Joey and Dee Dee, from Queens, NY, were thinking of that dialect. Joey "massacreed" a lot of the Queen's English on those early Ramones albums. Don't get me started on his pronunciation of Berlin or the Ice Capades.

 

John Lennon singing "I don't believe in TARROT"

fwiw, I thought the word was "alients" until first grade

 

I've always thought the same thing, possibly reinforced by Lou also giving Nico the lead on "All Tomorrow's Parties", with its "Sunday's CLON" lines.

 

In The Animals' "House Of The Rising Sun" Eric Burdon seems to pronounce "New Orleans" differently every time he says it

 

Father has a long 'a'.

 

Farther has a long 'a'.

 

I have never, ever heard anyone pronounce his name as in "bow wow"

I have heard it pronounced, a few times years ago, as in "Baba Booey" -- which is, incidentally, the way Jim Bowie pronounced it.

 

Best example I can think of is Simon & Garfunkel on "Scarborough Fair" - it should be "Scar-bra" not "Scar-borrow"

 

Annette Peacock pronounces 'anesthetize' two different ways in Bruford's Back to the Beginning.

First time she pronounces it 'a-nest-etize'
Second time she pronounces it 'a-knee-stetize'

 

Annette Peacock pronounces 'anaesthetise' two different ways in Bruford's Back to the Beginning.

First time she pronounces it 'a-nest-etize'
Second time she pronounces it 'a-knee-stetize'

 

Best example I can think of is Simon & Garfunkel on "Scarborough Fair" - it should be pronounced "Scar-bora" not "Scar-borrow". Since Simon learned this song from Martin Carthy, I'm surprised he didn't realise. Although a big hit in the UK, it does tend to jar on the ears...

 

Exactly, the song clearly goes "I'm an old cowhan-day, on the rio gran-day"!

 

That reminds me, how should we pronounce Neil Peart's surname? Which one is correct, *pert* or *peert*? I think I've heard both of them.

 

Peert

 

It is Peert, rhymes (sort of ) with "clear". It does not rhyme with "dirt."

 

No it doesn't!

 

Unless you happen to be eyeing up expensive Swiss watches, and the salesman marks you as a pleb from either side of the Atlantic, by pointing out it's "Zenit".

 

The pronunciation of "Ser-enge-DEE" in "Africa" by Toto.

From "My Flash On You" by Love:

But don't they know, don't they know, don't they know it's a waste of breath
Cause I don't wanna be like them, all I want is to be myse'f​

(My first post after years of lurking!)

 

Don't know if it's been mentioned - but Dire Straits' "My Parties" rhymes Polar Bear with Ozone Layer . .

 

"People stop and stare. They don't bother me.
For there's nowhere else on Earth that I would rather be..."

I once saw Andrew Lloyd Webber discuss this song. He called this specific rhyme "patronizing" (patronising)

 

Manic Street Preachers have a song on their first album called Another Invented Disease. They pronounce it as "die-sease." I 've always wondered if that's a Welsh accent.

Most country singers seem to pronounce "favorite" as "favoright".

 

It's an interesting rhyme, because while I can easily find a way to make those words rhyme (as I suspect could all of us), I can't think of a single native dialect that naturally would rhyme those words.

 

Really? I've always sung it as 'reindeer', and so does my six-year-old daughter. The pun of the children's book "Olive, the Other Reindeer" doesn't make sense otherwise.