Songs with 'All Right' lyrics

Subject: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: Sam L
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 10:26 AM

Despite training, tutoring, tips and guidance, I'm unable to convincingly pronounce the idiomatic contraction "a'ight". I ju8st can't pull it off, and people find it funny when I try. It seems to strike people extremely funny when I play a bit of a tune and attempt it, in place of say, Joe Cocker--"feeling a'ight" or the Beatle's Revolution line "don't you know that it's going to be! a'ight"! Dylan provides Don't think twice, it's A'ight, and It's A'ight Ma, I'm only Bleeding, but those start to seem a little padded.

Any other fairly well-known tunes lend themselves to this? I'd like to further tap this power I have to reduce people to tears, rolling on the floor, holding their sides in agony. The songs don't have to use "All right" necesarily. I've also done I'm dreaming of an a'ight Christmas. And the farmer in the dell, the farmer in the dell, ah-ah-aaaa'ight, the farmer in the dell.

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: MMario
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 10:30 AM

I don't think I've ever seen that contraction (at least not in print!)

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: artbrooks
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 11:57 AM

I don't think I've ever heard the line "Don't think twice, its all right" done without "all" and "right" both pronounced, including the R in "right."

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 12:14 PM

Arthur Daley 'e's alright

Nigel

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: fat B****rd
Date: 04 Mar 03 - 03:11 PM

Weeeeeeeeeeelll, I seem to recall a Mungo Jerry song in the sventies with the word A*right repeated incesantly. Knock em dead, Kid.....

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: Sam L
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 09:45 AM

Thanks y'all. My wife isn't familiar with it it either, and doesn't find it funny. I'm around 20-somethings a bit, and it's fairly common. No, Don't think twice doesn't use it, of course, or any of the other tunes, and the joke is in the incongruity and mangled phrasing, especially by an old white guy like me who can't get it right. Also thought of Billy Joel's Piano Man "we're all in the mood for a melody, and you've got us feeling a'ight. He's a better victim of this joke than Dylan, especially for a horrible faux-rap thing he did once.

Rather like substituting "dude" for Dylan's fondness for "babe" or simply adding a few more --i.e. It aint me, babe, that you, babe, are looking for. Babe.

And a bit like Martin Mull's white blues Woke up this mornin' and both my cars were gone, felt so low down deep inside, I threw my drink across the lawn.

I think I better be careful to do this joke around those who are familiar with it. thanks again.

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: Amos
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 11:04 AM

Gee, Fred, I don't get it! 'Splain?

A

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: wysiwyg
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 11:33 AM

I can hear it but I can't seem to fish the song title or artist out of my head..

"Well it's all right now; I learned my lesson well. You know you can't please everyone, so you got to please yourself."

OmiGOD! It's Ricky NELSON! "Garden Party." The song he wrote about people complaining about his material!

That would be too funny! Use it as the closer once people have complained about what you're doing!

Also a spiritual, "That's all right." I think I have it on a Georgia Sea Singers CD...

~S~

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: Steve Latimer
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 11:43 AM

That's Allright Mama. Elvis.

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: GUEST,Arkie
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 12:23 PM

Seems like Faron Young had a recording of a song called "All Right"

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: Cluin
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 12:30 PM

Yo! It's a'ight, gnome sain?

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: TheBigPinkLad
Date: 05 Mar 03 - 01:18 PM

Take your mind back a few decades to Cream's rendition of Cat Squirrel. Jack Bruce provides the only lyric right in the middle with:

All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right,
All right, all right, all right, all right, all right, all right.

Could it be bettered, I ask. By the way, Fred, I too have no idea what you're trying to achieve. Have you a speech impediment?

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: Sam L
Date: 06 Mar 03 - 10:22 AM

Oh, I took it that I was being kidded about having over 'splained the joke aready.

Yes, my impediment, known as White-A'ight Syndrome, is not yet recognised by the medical establishment, but is widely known among people who can say a'ight and sound like themselves. I also would have trouble singing Different Drum, since to be accurate I would have to substitute "you and I travel to the beats of different drummers" and the song "Whiter Shade" of Pale, to me, would be Tint of Pale. The Marshall Tucker band song Heard It In A Love-Song has the line "I guess I always will" after which I compulsively must add the word "be".

It's just a bit of fun, like teaching non-Minnesotans how to translate "casserole" ("hot-dish") or trying to explain an American biscuit to a Brit, or a moon-pie to anyone (it's like a southern crepe). Garden Party is perfect! I'm just having trouble doing it without laughing myself.

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Mar 03 - 03:02 PM

No, if you start cracking up you just switch to another one in mid-syllable and carry one!

~S~

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: denise:^)
Date: 06 Mar 03 - 03:28 PM

So--can't you just fit an "all right" into the space? Don't over-enunciate it, but put the whole thing in.
Try it out--if it doesn't work, you can always choose from the millions of songs left that don't say anything like that...

Denise:^)

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: Sam L
Date: 06 Mar 03 - 05:39 PM

Huh?

Well, um, the American biscuit isn't a cracker, or a cookie, it's a bread thing unit, flaky, or um, not, but not a roll, or a scone, or a muffin, or a cake, or ... sigh. The quality of biscuitness is not 'splained.
'S'a'ight.

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: wysiwyg
Date: 06 Mar 03 - 11:03 PM

Well, yer a'ight in my book, anyways.

~S~

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: Sam L
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 11:49 AM

Thanks WYSIWYG, I needed that.

Subject: RE: Songs with 'All Right' lyrics
From: wysiwyg
Date: 07 Mar 03 - 11:47 PM

As do we all, Fred, as do we all. :~)

~S~