Probably a little off track - but - if we DO find out, can we oganise a time-trip to go back and retro-actively terminate him/her along with the songwriter/composer involved as well.

I have to say I USED to like the song, but in late 1978, we (the graduating class of Phys Ed major students from Coburg Teachers College, Victoria, Australia) were all sitting around for a post-academic year drinks and peanuts at a pub in nearby Preston. On stage was a "pub band" - one of the many doing the rounds in those days doing everything from dance tunes to crooner stuff and through to light and 'Pop' rock material - and they were rehearsing. Unfortunately for our mob they were rehearsing the ". . . [musical lead-in] 'Smoke gets in yoooouuuurrrrr .......[drum roll or something similar].........Eye-ee-yi-ee-yii-eeee-iiiieeeessssssss' thing" and driving us all NUTS for about 35 minites STRAIGHT.

On a positive note: Blue Moon - mentioned by Mariner will ALWAYS be a winner if only for it's use (two versions) in "An American Werewolf in London"

Muttley

And to make it worse, he was singing the whole thing about a half-tone flat with occasional soirees into various sharp and flat notes above AND below the melodic line.

It got to the stage that we were all throwing not just peanuts at him; we were throwing whole PACKETS of them that came complimentary (the PE majors had held there "End of College Year Break-up" there for about 12 years by then and WE were more welcome than the band).

I still wake up in a cold sweat if that memory intrudes on a dream or, like now, in recollecting it. YEEEEEUUCCH!!!