Lyr Req: Pink Shoelaces (and other novelty songs)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: GUEST,kendall
Date: 07 Dec 12 - 02:10 AM

I never could get into this popular drivel. My taste ran to things such as:
Dark Moon
Love is blue
Mule Train
South of the border

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: GUEST
Date: 06 Dec 12 - 11:27 AM

I would like the music to Tan shoes and pink shoelaces. where can I find it? I would like to print if off with the words and music.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: GUEST,Smokey
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 02:24 AM

Ronnie & the Daytonas follow-up was "Sandy," not to be confused with

Dion's "Sandy."

The first couple of lines went:
ooh ooh ooh ooh, ooh ooh ooh ooh
Sandy, with sunlight in your hair (woh oh oh woh)
It hurts me so to see you standing there (who oh oh woh)

That's all I remember

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Joybell
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 08:04 PM

Oh yes! Get a Job. I liked that one too.
PoppaGater I do wish we could all get together for a chorus of GTO.

Waa waa wa wa wa wa wa! Yeah yeah little GTO!

I can do the high bits fit to break glasses! Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 12:10 PM

Apparently, the Silhouettes never did find gainful employment. Their follow-up single to "Get a Job" was called "Headin' for the Poorhouse." (It was not a hit.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 11:10 AM

"GTO" -- Yessss!

Ronnie and the Daytonas may have been one-hit wonders; I can't think of any other song released under their name.

Another title we haven't mentioned yet: "Get A Job," whose nonsense-syllable chorus provided the name for that very sucessful nostalia/parody singing group, Sha Na Na. (It also provided inspiration for a little-known answer song, one of Smokey Robinson's first recordings with the Miracles, "I Got A Job.")

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Joybell
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 05:56 AM

Well we went to a little town that just could have been Wallawallabingbang except it got a boring name instead. Most of the audience members were old enough to think of us as young things. Nice when you're nearly 60.
We all sang "Purple People Eater", "The Witch Doctor", some old rounds AND
"GTO". Sung originally by Ronnie and the Daytonas. Remember them? True-love really likes that one and it's got great waa waa bits.
                                                 Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 30 Sep 04 - 01:14 AM

"On the left hand side of the cook-house, just near the prisoner's exercise yard."

OK, Ok, OK, if you didn't know about the TV Prison series...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 08:17 PM

I had thought we had already exhausted all the really great oldies we could have mentioned here, but I was wrong.

Imagine my delight yesterday evening when I hopped into my car, turned the key, and heard the Capris singing "There's A Moon Out Tonight" on my car radio. What a great belt-buckle-polishing slow-dance classic -- and I had completely forgotten about it! (along with all the rest of you -- no one has mentioned it on this thread yet.)

Within the next 15 minutes, I was also treated to the Five Satins' "In the Still of the Night" -- already mentioned several times here, and even "sung-along-with" via text ("sho-doben-dobey-do," etc.). Plus: the Cadillacs' uber-classic "Speedo."

I was in oldies heaven! It didn't hurt that there *was* a moon out last night -- a big, bright orange, low-on-the-horizon, full moon.

All thanks to volunteer DJ Jivin' Gene, who presents his Fifties Rock 'n' Roll every Monday evening, 7-10 pm Central, on WWOZ-FM 90.7 in New Orleans.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 10:47 AM

On the left hand side of the cook-house, just near the prisoner's exercise yard.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Snuffy
Date: 29 Sep 04 - 09:02 AM

Whereabouts in Oz is Wallawallabingbang, Joy?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Joybell
Date: 28 Sep 04 - 09:10 PM

Well this thread is getting lots of airplay.
True-love and I are about to perform at an oldfolks venue. It's a sign of our own age that the songs we're doing are these novelty ones from the 50s and 60s. The ones of our teenage years. 30 years ago we were singing "Moonlight Bay" and the like. We still sing that, actually, but the gap has narrowed and now the older songs are those of all of our grandparents.
"The Witch Doctor" and his friends are about to hit the seniors' circuit.
OOO EEE OOO AH AH TING TANG WALLA WALLA BING BANG.
                                                   Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 27 Sep 04 - 04:20 AM

The first two verses are printed on the side of ny pink toothbrush, and the last two on the blue toothbrush.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 25 Sep 04 - 03:33 PM

In gillygillyossenpefferkatzanellenbogen-by-the sea.
Giok

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From:
Date: 25 Sep 04 - 03:10 PM

Found the lyrics at www.lyricsxp.com/lyrics/p/pink_shoe_laces_dodie_stevens.html

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 01:28 PM

The venerable Richard Thompson once played Wooly Bully with Beausoleil.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 10:52 AM

Sam The Sham - I won a trivia contest when I was the only contestant who knew that he sang lead for the pHAROUGHS!

hEY THERE lITTLE rED rIDING hOOD
yOU SURE ARE LOOKING GOOD
yOU'RE EVERYTHING A BIG BAD WOLF COULD WANT

dAMN cAPSLOCK! i THOUGHT i HAD IT UNDER CONTROL.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: darkriver
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 03:47 AM

I can't read these lyrics without also thinking of
Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs'
WOOLY BULLY!

Uno, dos, one, two, tres, quatro
Matty told Hatty about a thing she saw.
Had two big horns and a wooly jaw.
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Hatty told Matty, "Let's don't take no chance.
Let's not be L-seven, come and learn to dance."
Wooly bully, wooly bully
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.
Matty told Hatty, "That's the thing to do.
Get you someone really to pull the wool with you."
Wooly bully, wooly bully.
Wooly bully, wooly bully, wooly bully.


doug

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 03:26 AM

Open mike, that was "Gimme Dat Thing" by the bloke from Blue Mink and somebody else. And it shouldn't be in the same room as some of the DooWop classics mentioned. But you knew that didn't you ??

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: open mike
Date: 16 Aug 04 - 12:37 AM

then there was this one:
gimme that thing , gimme that, gimme gimme that,
gimme that thing , gimme that, gimme gimme that,
gimme that thing , gimme that, gimme gimme that,
gimme gimme gimme that thing.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 14 Aug 04 - 11:20 PM

If GUEST can't get to the main page to start a new thread, how come they could reply in this one?

Very suspicious....


"Yadadadadadadada, sh-boom sh-boom"

You know I did think that many years ago in my younger days, Amos...

So when's the next "Yadadadadadadada, sh-boom sh-boom" event - it's got its own thread...

Robin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Amos
Date: 14 Aug 04 - 10:18 AM

She wore an itsy bitsy
Teen weeny
Yellow polka dot bikini
That she wore for the first time that day-y-y-y-


I think the inspiration for the doowop in Blue Moon might have been the earlier Hit Parade hit, Sh-Boom!

Yadadadadadadada, sh-boom sh-boom
Yadadadadadadada, sh-boom sh-boom
Yadadadadadadada, life would be a dream, sweetheart!

A

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Aug 04 - 09:54 AM

I found this site by trying to find the flip side song to "Rainbow" by Russ Hamilton. I can't get to the home page to start a new thread...but I figure anyone who knows all this info about "pink shoelaces" might be able to help me. Search page said flip side was "pink shoelaces"...but this can't be. Any help out there? In case I can't get back to see any answers, could you email me at:
[e-mail]?
Thanks again.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: GUEST,Richard
Date: 13 Aug 04 - 10:55 AM

What about "The Last Blast of The Blasted Bugler"   or   "Russian Bandstand" ?

Certainly 2 wacky hits!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 03:23 AM

Guy Mitchell really ought to have a thread to himself. (And he probably has.)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 04 Aug 04 - 12:04 AM

She wears red feathers and a hooley, hooley skirt

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Joybell
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 07:33 PM

But he also had a wirly-birdy and a submarine and a limo, Jim. A good point though. Just what do you catch in those boats - whales?

I'm going mad with these phrases running through my head. Now it's:

"She wears red feathers and a hooley, hooley skirt
She wears red feathers and a hooley, hooley skirt
She lives on just coconuts and fish fur-om the sea
A rose in her hair, a gleam in her eyes, and love in her heart for me."

It's the fishing boats that started this one. This girl would be sooo cheap to keep. Not much in the way of clothes and her diet is very basic. Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 04:39 PM

Getting back to TAN SHOES...etc.

Minnesotans find the line about the "12-foot yacht" laughable.

Even a basic, no-frills fishing boat is at least 12 feet long.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 01:06 PM

Wrong spelling. It should have read Carol Deene.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 12:47 PM

Hi Clueless Don. I believe a girl called Carol Dean covered Norman and James, Hold The Ladder Steady in the UK. I do know that I hated them !!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 03 Aug 04 - 11:10 AM

Anyone who's been enjoying this thread should also take a peek at this Oldies Scat Quiz, which appeared a few days after this discussion began.

I'm sure that almost everyone participating here in Summer 2004 *has* seen the quiz, but I'm putting this message in here for future reference. If anyone stumbling across this discussion in '05 or '06 wants more doo-wop fun, take the quiz!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Joybell
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 07:54 PM

Thanks for putting me straight, M Ted. Sorry Mickie Grant. I hate to do that!
Giok I want to ignore your correction and see the image of "knockers" waving in the air. It's much more interesting that way.
I still sing "Sad Movies". I WAS a teenager when I started singing it and like Sue Thompson I still sounded like a teenager at 35. Now when I sing, in my higher range, I still sound like one. I'll be 60 next January! Weird! Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: M.Ted
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 12:19 PM

Dodie Stevens didn't write "Tan Shoes", it was written by Mickie Grant. She was 13 when it became a hit though--
Sue Thompson, who sounded even more like a teenager,was 35 when she had her first big hit, "Sad Movies Make Me Cry"--she was married to, and working with, Hank Penny at the time, and had been performing Western Swing since the 40's--All her big " teen " hits, including Norman, Sad Movies, Paper Tiger, and "James, James, Hold the Ladder for Me" were written by John D. Loudermilk--

Dodie Stevens career as a teen star ended at the ripe old age of sixteen, and, curiously. later turned up as a back-up singer for Sergio Mendes and Brazil '77--,

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: clueless don
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 10:37 AM

Didn't the singer who recorded "Norman" also record "Paper Tiger"?

Don

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Steve Parkes
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 04:08 AM

think you'd have to put your version on the back of "Wet dream", Giok!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 02 Aug 04 - 04:02 AM

I just noticed my Freudian slip in 'Jump up and down etc' It should of course be knickers not knockers, although it does conjure up some interesting mental pictures.:~)
Giok

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Joybell
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 07:10 PM

"Thanks for the memories..." So glad I couldn't find those verses. Now look what fun we're having. "We wear short shorts!" OOOOOH! OOOH! "....sure looked good to me." Sorry I missed the fun in the chat room. We were busy singing all of these at our little musical gathering. We did the orange coloured sky song too, Giok. Our theme was colour songs.
By the way we haven't mentioned it yet, I don't think - Dodie was just 13 when she wrote and sang "Pink shoes with etc".
                                                 Joy

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 03:31 PM

My ding-a-ling, my ding-a-ling,
I want you to play with my ding-a-ling.

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: M.Ted
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 03:21 PM

Funny, but I put both "Norman" and "Tan Shoes..." on a mix CD of whacked out old pop tunes, along with "Johnny, Get Angry"--"Norman" proved that rock n roll with a polka beat and trombone block chords was not a viable concept--"Johnny" has that kazoo hook, and the girl narrator is one of the more twisted characters-

"Johnny get angry, Johnny get mad,
give me the biggest lecture I ever had,
I want a brave man, I want a cave man,
Johnny show me that you care, really care for me"

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 12:08 PM

"Norman"??!?!?!? Forgot all about that one! Never liked it much -- I can understand the reaction of your friend Norman.

*****

My mother really liked the original Rodgers & Hart "Blue Moon," and was absolutely horrified by the Marcells' version when it came out.

Bom buh-buh Bom / buh Bam-pa-bom-bom / Budda Bom buh-buh Bom / a dang-ga dang dang / ga ding ga dong ding Blue Moon!

I clicked on Foolestroupe's link, found another thread ("This is our meeting place"), but didn't know how to proceed... It does sure look like fun!

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 08:49 AM

Then there was....
Jump up and Down and Wave your Knockers in the Air [honestly]
Giok

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 06:56 AM

Warning!

Put your fingers in your ears and go Tingalingaloo!

MudChat Live Do-do-do-wah-wah-wah-wah-ah

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 05:52 AM

I was walking along, minding my business
When out of an orange coloured sky
Crash Bam al a kazam, thank you for passing me by.

The Railroad runs through the Middle of the House
Twenty Tiny Fingers
Samuel Pepys Diary

and

Twas on a Monday morning o, the rain it was a raining
My love she came to me and said
Oh when will you and I be wed
For I have bought a double bed
And Mother is complainig
And all the while the rain it was a raining.

Oh the culture of yesteryear!
Giok

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: JennyO
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 05:25 AM

Lyr Req: Doo-doo-doo, Do-do-do-wah-wah-wah-ah
Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?

Take out a do and a wah and it fits for a thread title (one letter less than the title of this thread, although it doesn't look like it)

As for the paltalk room - how many letters are you allowed for that?

And this was a hell of a message to run thru my IESpell checker... :-)

I'll bet it was (grin)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 05:04 AM

"How about Doo-doo-doo, Do-do-do-do-wah-wah-wah-wah-ah?"

I'm not sure that would all fit in the thread title.... :-)

... and it's a hell of a name for a Paltalk Room (maybe a bit long too) - especially since you need to have 'Live' in the name to discourage the Ubiquitous Karokers...

Maybe "Mudcat Live Do-do-do-do-wah-wah-wah-wah-ah" ...? or as much as fits...

And this was a hell of a message to run thru my IESpell checker... :-)

Robin

Subject: Lyr Add: BLUE MOON (Lorenz Hart, Richard Rodgers)
From: JennyO
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 01:36 AM

How about Doo-doo-doo, Do-do-do-do-wah-wah-wah-wah-ah?

I just googled and found the lyrics for that version of Blue Moon. Here it is, complete with all the do wahs.... Cool eh?


Blue Moon
By SHA-NA-NA
Album: GREASE - The Original Soundtrack From the Motion Picture

Blue-ue moon
(Blue blue blue blue moon)
You saw me standing alone
(Blue blue blue blue moon)
Without a dream in my heart
(Blue blue blue blue moon)
Without a love of my own
(Bahhh-ah)

Blue-ue moon
(Blue blue blue blue moon)
You knew just what I was there for
(Doo-doo-doo, blue blue blue blue moon)
You heard me saying a prayer for
(Doo-doo-doo, blue blue blue blue moon)
Someone I really could care for
(Doo-doo-doo, Do-do-do-do-wah-wah-wah-wah-ah)

And then suddenly - appear-eared - before-ore-ore me
(Doo-do-do-do, Doo-do-do-do, Doo-do-do-do, Doo-do-do-do ...)
(Wooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
The only one - my arms could e-ver ho-o-o-old
(Doo-do-do-do, Doo-do-do-do, Doo-do-do-do, Doo-do-do-do ...)
(Wooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
I heard somebody - whisper plea-ease - adore-ore-ore me
(Doo-do-do-do, Doo-do-do-do, Doo-do-do-do, Doo-do-do-do ...)
(Wooh-ooh-ooh-ooh-ooh)
But when I looked - that moon had turned to go-o-old

Woh-woh-woh, Blue-ue moon
(Blue blue blue blue moon)
Now I'm no longer alone
(Doo-doo-doo, blue blue blue blue moon)
Without a dream in my heart
(Doo-doo-doo, blue blue blue blue moon)
Without a love of my own
(Doo-doo, blue blue blue blue moon)
Without a love of my own
(Doo-doo-doo, Do-do-do-do-wah-wah-wah-wah-ah)

Blue moon ...

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: JennieG
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 01:27 AM

Norman oooohooooh Norman ooooohhooooo
Norman
Norman my lurve!

I sang this a while ago to a bloke called Norm when he teased me about something. He screwed up his eyes and pulled a face and said "I always hated that song!"

He hasn't teased me since.

Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 01 Aug 04 - 12:46 AM

Well, JennyO - we'll start a new thread for that - what shall we call it?

Robin

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: Little Robyn
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 05:49 PM

Blue moon, without any doo wops, was written by Richard Rogers and Larry Hart, probably in the 30s or 40s.
If you can find the movie 'Words and Music', you can revisit all their songs along with Lena Horne, Judy Garland, June Allyson, Gene Kelly, Mickey Rooney.....
When I was a kid we owned a copy of it (and a 16mm projector) and we saw it many times. I was very annoyed when someone wrecked Blue Moon by making it into a doo do doo do doo thing!
Robyn

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: Tan Shoes and Pink Shoelaces. Verses?
From: M.Ted
Date: 31 Jul 04 - 04:34 PM

The Bass intro was lifted from the Caddillac's "Zoom"--other than that, I don't know--