When you were a kid and listened to a song, what did you get totally wrong about it?

I don’t remember how I posed the request to the radio DJ but I must have asked for either “Lucy in Disguise” or “Judy in the Skies” because he asked me which one I wanted!

 

When I was young I thought soundtrack recordings were the actual audio tracks from the movie. Who would want to just hear the movie?

 

I thought it was spill the wine, dig that girl up until this moment

 

“Michelle, my bell, Sunday morning go play piano son, play piano son.”

 

I thought Bob was singing Lady Elaine rather than Lay Lady Lay, and that the song was an ode to Lady Elaine Fairchilde of Mr Roger’s Neighborhood. Somehow it made perfect sense when I was 5...

 

They use an horrific poetic license and then triple down on it. It's such a feeling that my love I can't hide, I can't hide, I can't hide.

 

I thought it was "take that girl", which would seem to make sense

 

Same. Never considered it wasn't "dig that girl" until a moment ago.

 

There was the song that could have been about a painter and decorator that must have had a reputation for doing a great job (and yes, it did sound like this to me)...

I Second That Emulsion.



It must be the Japan version (listening to that last night) that made me think that as it was the one from my somewhat younger days.

 

I had Monty Python's Life Of Brian 'Original Soundtrack' LP. When I finally saw the film (on VHS) I was amazed that it wasn't word-for-word like the LP and disappointed the studio recorded links between scenes were now absent.

"Brian's on the run from the lobster..." Not in the movie he isn't!

 

Bad boys bad boys what you gonna do, do you wanna go to camp with me.

 

The "Wow" is apparently sung by the writer/guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen. As you can see in this video lip-sync.

 

The lyrics, I thought they meant something.

 

Pete Seeger "Little Boxes"

The singer has a larf at people in bad houses, I thought he obviously lived in a castle or some such.

 

John Lennon - "Cold Turkey"

When I was a kid and first started hearing this song I had thought it meant that the singer was being chased by a giant killer turkey, hence why the turkey has him "on the run". At the end of the song the turkey catches up to the singer and begins to devour him as he pleads for mercy, begging the turkey to stop eating him.

 

That made me laugh...and look at the song from a whole new perspective!

 

Perhaps my favorite part of that is that the backing vocals repeat the end of that line:

Elton: Just feel their genitals...
Backing Vocals: ...Genitals!

(I realize I’m replying to a 7-year old post, but hey... it’s new to me!)

 

My daughter aged 6 at the time thought that The Sweet's Little Willie was about a lamb!

 

When my youngest daughter was little, Til Tuesday's "Voices Carry" was playing on the radio in the car and we were all singing along with it. When it came to the chorus, my youngest belted out "This is scary". We all laughed. I still sing "This is scary" sometimes just to smile a bit.

 

Some other classics that bear repeating:

"There's a bathroom on the right" - Creedence Bad Moon

"Excuse me while I kiss this guy" - Hendrix Purple Haze

 

Elton John had me thinking our local discount store was headquartered in Vermont:

"I'm in Rockingham. Rockingham! [bla-bla-bla-bla] Davidson-Levinthal." (I was 6, my radio was AM, and the man sang like he had a mouthful of syrup)

 

“The ants are my friends, they’re blowin in the wind, the ants they are blowin in the wind.”

a dude I knew a long time ago said he thought this was the lyric when he was a kid. I still remember that.

 

I love that!

 

When I was a kid, I thought The Animals were American and that Eric Burdon was black.

 

Til Tuesday, "Voices Carry" always sounded like

"Hush hush
Keep it down now
Whats so scary..."