Lyr Req: My Resistance is Low

08 Sep 03 - 11:51 AM (#1014803)
Subject: Lyr Req: My Resistance is Low
From: GUEST,christine primrose

Hi everyone - a friend of mine is looking for the words to My Resistance is Low. Can anyone help please.
Thanking you in anticipation

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08 Sep 03 - 12:24 PM (#1014826)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Resistance is Low
From: George Seto - [e-mail]

Well, I haven't found the words yet, but found this information:

MY RESISTANCE IS LOW
Music by: HOAGY CARMICHAEL
Lyrics by: HAROLD ADAMSON
Copyright: 1951 (Renewed) Frank Music Corp.
Published: 1951
Song Covers
Artist: Orrin Tucker & His OrchestraM
Chart Date: May, 25 1940 Chart Peak: 14

Now, if the song is copyrighted in 1951, why did they say it charted at 14 for a peak, in 1940? Strange.

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08 Sep 03 - 12:28 PM (#1014830)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Resistance is Low
From: George Seto - [e-mail]

BTW, is that Christine Primrose, the Gaelic singer?

If so, LOVED both Aite Mo Ghaoil and S Tu Mo Chuimhne, as well as the Quiet Tradition.

Haven't picked up the more recent recordings. YET! Tapadh leibh!

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08 Sep 03 - 03:00 PM (#1014905)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Resistance is Low
From: Marje

From memory (thanks to a cover version I remember from about 1965):

You touch my fingertips
And my heart is aglow
You bend to kiss my lips
And I can't let you go
Maybe I should resist
I'm a fool, I know
But at a time like this
My resistance is low

Your eyes are magic
They seem to say
"Come closer, come closer,
My darling, come closer"
Amd somehow I can't keep away

I want to be adored
More than you'll ever know
I'm going overboard
With a capital "O"


Don't know if that's all of it. Now I've unloaded that, maybe there will be some space freed up in my brain for stuff like what day it is and what my mobile phome number is.

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08 Sep 03 - 03:21 PM (#1014917)
Subject: Lyr Add: MY RESISTANCE IS LOW (Adamson, Carmichael
From: GUEST

That's pretty good, Marje, from memory. According to my Hoagy Carmichael songbook, it's just a couple of words different, a link line before the final verse, and an ending. I've put the changes in Italics.

Words by HAROLD ADAMSON
Music by HOAGY CARMICHAEL

You touch my fingertips
And my heart is aglow
You bend to kiss my lips
And I can't let you go
Maybe I should resist
I'm a fool, I know
But at a time like this
My resistance is low

Your eyes have magic
They seem to say
"Come closer, come closer,
My darling, come closer"
And somehow I can't break away

Can't you see that I want to be adored
More than you'll ever know
I'm going overboard
With a capital "O"

So don't be persistent
Please keep your distance
You know my resistance is low

Doug C

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08 Sep 03 - 03:26 PM (#1014919)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Resistance is Low
From: Doug Chadwick

That anonymous guest was me

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08 Sep 03 - 06:38 PM (#1015015)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Resistance is Low
From: Skipjack K8

You varmint, Doug!

Didn't Peter Sarsted's brother Robin have a crack at this one in the 70s?

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08 Sep 03 - 07:56 PM (#1015076)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Resistance is Low
From: nutty

The song I remember has the lines ........

My resistance is low and you've got me where you want me
And I don't know where I am
I went in like a lion and I came out like a lamb

It might have had something to do with Doris Day

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08 Sep 03 - 08:05 PM (#1015089)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: My Resistance is Low
From: nutty

The memory is playing tricks on me .....just remembered that the song above really starts ,,,,

My defences are down etc

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