'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: GUEST,Bill the Collie
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 02:39 AM

I thought it were 'bout drugs

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Muttley
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 06:22 AM

Wiggle Wiggle?

Hell he probably stole the words to that one - - - Wiggle has two syllables and Dylan ain't that smart.

But i think "Tell Laura I Love Her" is probably up there with some of the nasties 'Peace' has offered us.

BTW -I don't suppose "Leader of the Pack" qualifies, does it? HELL! Of COURSE it does eeeewwwww!

Muttley

Subject: Lyr Add: WOLVERTON MOUNTAIN (Claude King)
From: bobad
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 07:16 AM

Here's another that deserves a spot in the pantheon of dyspepsia.

Wolverton Mountain
Claude King

They say don't go on Wolverton Mountain,
if you're looking for a wife.
'Cause Clifton Clowers has a pretty
young daughter,
he's mighty handy with a gun and a knife.

Her tender lips are sweeter than honey
And Wolverton Mountain protects her there.
The bears and birds tell Clifton Clowers
If a stranger should wander there.

All of my dreams are on Wolverton Mountain.
I want his daughter for my wife.
I'll take my chances and climb that mountain
Though Clilfton Clowers, he may take my life


Her tender lips ....

I'm going up on Wolverton Mountain,
It's too lonely downhere below.
It's just not right to hide his daughter
From the one who loves her so.

Her tender lips ...

But I don't care about Clifton Clowers,
I'm gonna climb up on his mountain,
I'm gonna take the girl I love.
I don't care about Clifton Clowers,
I'm gonna climb up on his mountain,
I'm gonna take the girl I love.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: fat B****rd
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 08:09 AM

Peace and co. you chaps are really stretching one's credibility. What about Mark Dinning's "Teen Angel" and Rolf's p*** take "Tame Eagle"
And BTW what was that one about Teddy Bear and truckers and CBs etc ??

Subject: Lyr Add: TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART (Bonnie Tyler)
From: JennyO
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 08:10 AM

All right - take THIS!

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART (Bonnie Tyler )

Turnaround, every now and then I get a
little bit lonely and you're never coming around
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit tired of listening to the sound of my tears
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit nervous that the best of all the years have gone by
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit terrified and then I see the look in your eyes
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart

Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit restless and I dream of something wild
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit helpless and I'm lying like a child in your arms
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit angry and I know I've got to get out and cry
Turnaround, Every now and then I get a
little bit terrified but then I see the look in your eyes
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart

And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you'll only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
Cause we'll never be wrong together
We can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight

Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

Turnaround bright eyes
Turnaround bright eyes
Turnaround, every now and then I know
you'll never be the boy you always you wanted to be
Turnaround, every now and then I know
you'll always be the only boy who wanted me the way that I am
Turnaround, every now and then I know
there's no one in the universe as magical and wonderous as you
Turnaround, every now and then I know
there's nothing any better and there's nothing I just wouldn't do
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart
Turnaround bright eyes, Every now and
then I fall apart

And I need you now tonight
And I need you more than ever
And if you'll only hold me tight
We'll be holding on forever
And we'll only be making it right
Cause we'll never be wrong together
We can take it to the end of the line
Your love is like a shadow on me all of the time
I don't know what to do and I'm always in the dark
We're living in a powder keg and giving off sparks
I really need you tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight
Forever's gonna start tonight

Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

Subject: Lyr Add: SUGAR SUGAR (The Archies)
From: alanabit
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 08:25 AM

For all you horrid people who have done that to my digestion, here is alanabit's revenge!

Sugar Sugar - The Archies

Sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you
(I just can't believe it's true)
I just can't believe the one to love this feeling to.
(I just can't believe it's true)
Ah sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Ah honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
When I kissed you, girl, I knew how sweet a kiss could be
(I know how sweet a kiss can be)
Like the summer sunshine pour your sweetness over me
(Pour your sweetness over me)
Sugar, pour a little sugar on it honey,
Pour a little sugar on it baby
I'm gonna make your life so sweet, yeah yeah yeah
Pour a little sugar on it oh yeah
Pour a little sugar on it honey,
Pour a little sugar on it baby
I'm gonna make your life so sweet, yeah yeah yeah
Pour a little sugar on it honey,
Ah sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Oh honey, honey, sugar sugar ..
You are my candy girl ..

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Joybell
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 05:29 PM

Hey wait a minute! Wolverton Mountain!
I love that one! I like to stop after the line about the bears and the birds telling Clifton Clowers that someone's coming and give a little demonstration.
Think about it.
You can use mime. That's the obvious because it gets past the language translation problem.
Or
Bear: GRRRRRRR! Wooof. GRR GRR!
Clowers: What's that? A stranger you say?
Bear: GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!
Clowers: I surely am glad I've got you to warn me!
Bird: Tweeeeeeeeeeet!
Clowers: Coming to get my daughter? We'll have to see about that!
Bird: TWEEEEEEEEEEEEET!
Clowers: My gun! Thanks bird.

Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: number 6
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 07:32 PM

I'll mention this song once again in the Mudcat.

"Down the lane I walk with my sweet Mary, hair of gold and lips like cherries.
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home.
Yes, they'll all come to meet me, arms reaching, smiling sweetly.
It's good to touch the green, green grass of home."

That song, specifically that verse, is just as ridiculus as this thread!!

sIx

Subject: Lyr Add: FOOLED AROUND AND FELL IN LOVE
From: michaelr
Date: 05 Feb 06 - 07:54 PM

Aw shucks, I like "Total Eclipse..."
How's this:

Fooled Around And Fell In Love
Elvin Bishop

I must've been through about a million girls
I love 'em and I leave 'em alone
I didn't care how much they cried, on sir
Their tears left me cold as a stone

*But then I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love

Used to feel that I'd see the girl that I like
I fill in my book and I write down her name
The grass got a little greener on the other side
I just tear off a page, hey...

(Repeat *)

Free on my own
That's the way I used to be
Oh since I met you baby
Love got a hold of me

(Repeat *)

Cheers,
Michael (who also likes the song that started this thread)

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Muttley
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 12:32 AM

I happen to like Green Green Grass of Home - it's sickly sweet, yeah! I'll grant that but at least it's got a LITTLE bit of genuine pathos - if you want truly regurgative prison fare - Yellow Ribbon was a stinker that has become ridiculously cliched by the number of times captives of any sort receive homecomings to gazillions of yellow ribbons tied around anything upright - - - including the welcoming committee!

And as for this thread being ridiculous - I humbly beg to differ - no, screw it - You're wrong - it's not ridiculous it's a lot of fun.
If the truth be told, once upon a time we probably secretly LIKED all those songs that now make us nauseated - that's half the fun of it (OK - Achy Breaky Heart was never loved by ANYone - - - - - EVER - except mabe Billy Ray Cyrus; and with a name like that he deserved to like it)

Mutt

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: GUEST,Art Thieme
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 12:36 AM

Like someone here said, and I concur, "Daisy A Day" was a very good song. Sseveral other songs by Jud Strunk were just fine also. He had a pleasant voice as well.

Art

Subject: Lyr Add: CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP
From: alanabit
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 01:50 AM

This thing was number one for weeks on end in the seventies:

CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP
Mac & Katie Kissoon

Where's your momma gone
(Where's your momma gone)
Little baby bird
(Little baby bird)
Where's your momma gone
(Where's your momma gone)
Far far away far far awayayay...

REFRAIN

Last night I heard my momma singing this song
Ooh wee chirpy chirpy cheep cheep
Woke up this morning and my momma was gone
Ooh wee chirpy chirpy cheep cheep
Chirpy chirpy cheep cheep chirp

Where's your momma gone
(Where's your momma gone)
Little baby bird
(Little baby bird)
Where's your momma gone
(Where's your momma gone)
Far far away
Where's your poppa gone
(Where's your poppa gone)
Little baby bird
(Little baby bird)
Where's your poppa gone
(Where's your poppa gone)
Far far away far far awayayay...

REFRAIN

REPEAT REFAIN

REPEAT REFRAIN AGAIN

Where's your momma gone
(Where's your momma gone)
Little baby bird
(Little baby bird)
Where's your momma gone
(Where's your momma gone)
Far far away

[begin fading]
Where's your poppa gone
(Where's your poppa gone)
Little baby bird
(Little baby bird)
Where's...

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 05:46 AM

Back to the theme of the topic! Interestingly, Sacha Distel was just an obscure ex-boyfiend of Brigitte Bardot when the song came out. Later, of course, he became quite a big star in the UK. Was he known in the States? Secondly, there is an extra verse to the song which was censored from the single version but appeared on the album. The offending lyrics icluded the line " your body is firm and inviting". Hot stuff for 1969!

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: alanabit
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 07:30 AM

Exciting days, weren't they?
"Sexual intercourse began in nineteen sixty three
(Which was a little late for me)
Between the end of the Chatterly ban
And the Beatles first LP..."

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Cool Beans
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 12:05 PM

Another contrarian view:
I like "Waltzing with Bears." My wife, a psychotherapist, believes it's about man who has Alzheimer's disease. Puts a whole new spin on it, no?

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Joybell
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 04:43 PM

It's about my strange, but somehow beautiful, Great Uncle Walter. I don't know where he found bears in Australia but I believe he did. He lived at a time way before the song was written but that's a small point - It COULD have been written about him. I like to sing it at Cornish festivals because everyone has a strange, but somehow beautiful, Uncle Walter somewhere on their family tree. Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Compton
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 08:00 PM

Je regret...le Sasha Distel, Il est mort. and not a bad player of the hot guitar either. i believe he used to do a bit with Stephan Grappelli.
What he was doing to end up in a bloody awful song like Where do you go to, my lovely?..God only knows.

Subject: Lyr Add: CONVOY (C. W. McCall)
From: Peace
Date: 06 Feb 06 - 08:08 PM

Convoy

By Bill Fries & Chip Davis

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------


Uh, Breaker One-Nine, this here's the Rubber Duck
You got a copy on me Pig-Pen? C'mon

Uh, yeah 10-4 Pig Pen, fer sure, fer sure
By golly it's clean clear to Flag-Town, C'mon

Uh, yeah, that's a big 10-4 Pig-Pen,
Yeah, we definitely got us the front door good buddy,
Mercy sakes alive, looks like we got us a convoy

Was the dark of the moon, on the sixth of June
In a Kenworth, pullin' logs
Cabover Pete with a reefer on
And a Jimmy haulin' hogs
We 'as headin' fer bear on I-One-Oh
'Bout a mile outta Shaky-Town
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
An' I'm about to put the hammer on down

Cause we gotta little ol' convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta little ol' convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, breaker Pig-Pen, this here's The Duck
Uh, you wanna back off them hogs
10-4, 'bout five mile or so, 10-roger
Them hogs is gittin' in-tense up here

By the time we got into Tulsa-Town
We had eighty-five trucks in all
But they's a road block up on the clover leaf
An' them bears 'as wall to wall
Yeah them smokies 'as thick as bugs on a bumper
They even had a bear-in-the-air
I sez callin' all trucks, this here's The Duck
We about to go a huntin' bear

Cause we gotta great big convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta great big convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, you wanna give me a 10-9 on that Pig-Pen?
Uh, negatory Pig-Pen, yer still too close
Yeah, them hogs is startin' close up my sinuses
Mercy sakes, you better back off another ten

Well we rolled up interstate fourty-four
Like a rocket sled on rails
We tore up all a our swindle sheets
An' left 'em settin' on the scales
By the time we hit that Chi-Town
Them bears was a gittin' smart
They'd brought up some reinforcements
From the Illinois National Guard
There 'as armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
An' rigs of every size
Yeah them chicken coops 'as full a bears
An' choppers filled the skies
Well we shot the line, an' we went for broke
With a thousand screamin' trucks
And eleven long-haired friends of Jesus
In a chartreusse microbus

Hey Sod Buster, listen
You wanna put that microbus in behind the suicide jockey?
Yeah, he's haulin dynamite
He needs all the help he can git

Well we laid a strip fer the Jersey Shore
An' prepared to cross the line
I could see the bridge 'as lined with bears
But I didn't have a doggone dime
I sez Pig-Pen, this here's the Rubber Duck
We just ain't a gonna pay no toll
So we crashed the gate doin' ninety-eight
I sez, let them truckers roll, 10-4

Cause we gotta mighty convoy, rockin' through the night
Yeah we gotta mighty convoy, ain't she a beautiful sight?
Come on an' join our convoy, ain't nothin' gonna git in our way
We're gonna roll this truckin' convoy, cross the USA
Convoy... Convoy...

Uh, 10-4 Pig-Pen, what's yer 20?
Omaha?!
Well they oughta know what to do with them hogs out there fer sure
Well mercy sakes alive good buddy
We gonna back on outta here
So keep the bugs off yer glass
An' the bears off yer... tail
We gonna catch ya on the flip-flop
This here's the Rubber Duck on the side
We gone
Bye, Bye...

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Muttley
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 01:11 AM

Peace and alanabit - STOP IT - YOU'LL GO BLIND !!!!!

You're both just being cruel and unusual now.

However questions to "GUEST:Tunesmith", "Cool Beans" and "Joybell"

Tunesmith - haven't heard that verse - can you p[ost it in it's entirety and indicate where in the song it is sung, please?

Cool Beans: Why does your wife think "Waltzing With Bears" is about Alzheimer's Disease?

and

Joybell: Would you mind sharing with us why your 'Uncle Walter was so special.

Muttley

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 08:16 AM

Muttley: The "uncensored" version of the song - with the extra verse -appeared on Peter's first album. As far as my memory will allow, here is the complete verse:-

          "You are in between 20 and 30,
            a very desireable age,
            your body is firm and inviting,
            and you live on a glittering stage"

p.s. I don't mind admitting that I loved the song, and the first time I visited Paris ( a wonderful place), I headed down to take a look at the Boulevard Saint-Michel.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Snuffy
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 09:22 AM

So that verse would seem to rule out Sophia Loren on chronological grounds? As she was born 20/09/34 she'd be 35 when the song came out.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Teribus
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 10:25 AM

GUEST,Tunesmith - 10 Feb 06 - 08:16 AM

Thanks very much for posting the 'censored' verse, I mentioned it's existance quite a distance up the thread and was hoping that someone would come up with it.

Like Snuffy I looked up Sophia Loren's web-site and thought that this verse discounts her as being the subject of the song.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 12:13 PM

Of course, Sophia Loren's younger years could still have been the inspiration or jumping off point - for the creation of the song. Don't forget the old adage about " not letting the truth [ i.e. certain facts] get in the way of a good story.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Metchosin
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 12:18 PM

Tunesmith, same here, but not because of the song, although I thought of it at the time. I stayed at wonderfully romantic, grungy low rent place, called the (Hotel Le Suede?) on the Boulevard Saint-Michel near Place (Pigalle?) with a view of the Seine and Nortre Dame.

I did so, at the specific request of an old boss, who asked when I got there, if I would go to Notre Dame and ask the nuns on the right (as opposed to the nuns on the left) to light candles for his daughter who had died or been killed when very young.

It always seemed a very enigmatic request and because of the quirkiness of the song as well, the two have always been linked in my mind.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 03:05 PM

Metchosin: I must admit that that area of Paris holds a special magic for me. There is an interesting novel called "Springtime in Paris" ( publ. 1951) which is set in and around the Rue de la Huchette. A narrow street full of eating places, clubs and shops, which runs into Boulevard St. Michel near Place St.Michel.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Joybell
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 04:38 PM

Muttley, I actually don't really know what it was about Great Uncle Walter. He was my Grandmother's brother. I was doing family research when I found him. In the few photos I have of him he's got a silly sort of grin. I found a few letters that mentioned him. They contained phrases like, "Walter is doing quite well and he's very happy." A daughter of another of his sisters told me he was always wandering off in the bush and coming back tattered. (Not actually with bear-hairs perhaps). She said children just adored him. When my grandmother had a baby, in her nearby home, Great Uncle Walter was sent to register her. There are several very obvious mistakes on the certificate. He may have just been a bit "slow" - as they would have put it. Or - there is mention that he suffered epileptic fits. I've wondered if he wandered off after those - possibly in a confused state. He never married and died young - in his 30s. Not much evidence I grant you, but along with the name, it's enough for me to attach "Waltzing with Bears" to him.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Cool Beans
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 04:39 PM

Ah, Muttley, it's good of you to ask.
   My wife believes waltzing with bears is another way of saying "gone 'round the bend" or whatever phrase you prefer for losing one's mind. And since Uncle Walter lives with his niece or nephew, it suggests he's a fellow of advancing years. Hence, Alzheimer's.
    I see the song as a children's story, like "The 12 Dancing Princesses" who go mysteriously disapper every night to go dancing.
    It's open to intepretation, like any work of art.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Joybell
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 04:51 PM

Just to add to the theory of Cool Bean's wife. They love this song in nursing homes. Everyone relates it to everyone else.

I was performing in one recently where an elderly lady kept excusing herself to go and do the rounds of all the many doors in the place. She whispered to me as she passed, "They might forget to lock one and I can get out". I hope she finds bears to waltz with one day.
Cheers, Joy

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Muttley
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 07:22 PM

Dear Joybell - a lovely story - both of them. If you don't mind a little observation here: Your great uncle sounds like he was a tad 'eccentric'. If so he may have actually been an Asperger's affected person. Such people act the way you have described, children tend to be attracted to them because of their child-like openness and often obsessive focussing on subjects that frequently appeal to children themselves ie trains, dinosaurs, letterboxes - - -anything really. I have a very deep and sensitive 'soft-spot' for "Aspies"; as they are known to their families and selves. The reason being that I have one son who is extremely mildly Asperger and another wh is quite profoundly Asperger (bordering on high-functioning Autistic) while I, myself am somewhere in between. My obsessions are music (though I can't read or write it, I can play the guitar and recorder and didjeridu and am learning the Low Pipe (though the guitar has suffered as a result of head injuries the result of which I forgot how to play and had to relearn in a far more simple manner).
As for the lady who kept looking for the unlocked door - I suggest watching the Australian 'claymation' short film: "Harvey Krumpet" - it's about a young chap, obviously an Autistic Spectrum person with Tourettes who ends up in a nursing home with several Alzheimer's patients. Sadly and beautifully poignant - won an Oscar a few years ago. Worth a watch if you haven't already seen it.
Cool Beans, your wife would love it too. If you can't get it where you are, let me know and I shall try over here for you - send me a PM if you want to take it 'off thread'.

Tunesmith: We were recently in Paris as well but I didn't get to walk down the Boulevard Saint Michel - much as that was one of my goals. I think we did drive a bit of it on a coach, though.

I too, must admit to loving this song - don't know why, but it's just beautifully haunting to me - especially with the accordion (of course my wife is French so that may have a bearing, though I loved it even before I met her just over 30 years ago. However for many years I was unable to listen to it - though I had it on record AND tape:
You see, I used to be paramedic and on one aoocasion I was called (with my partner) to an "unconscious infant" south of Melbourne in one of the bayside suburbs. Lovely house, young 'semi-professional'-type couple, with a young daughter (first and only child). When we got there the babe was not unconscious, but in fact deceased (SIDS - "cot death"). She was a gorgeous little girl and looked like she was asleep. And her name was Marie Claire - after the song! After that, for many years, just the sound of the opening bars was enough to reduce me to tears. - that was in 1984/5 or thereabouts. Lately, with my busking, I have included the song, but I have to precede and follow it with "happy" songs or I just start to falter on the lines "So look into my face marie Claire . . . . " If I'm not careful the image of that child as a young woman (she'd be 21, now) swims up and overwhelms me, even now. Funny I can't recall ANY of those whose lives I saved (and there were literally a few hundred) but quite a few of those we 'lost' still haunt me!

Could someone send me the lyrics and chords to "Bears" and let me know where I can hear the tune.

Muttley

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Joybell
Date: 10 Feb 06 - 08:28 PM

Muttley, such a sad and lovely story. Thank you so much for sharing it. Have we crossed paths I wonder? I was a busker in Melbourne for several years back in the 80s. I also have a background in the medical profession and have memories that trigger overwhelming responses.
Actually one of mine includes a bear - speaking of waltzing with them. One morning my friend called me to her home. Her baby had died as the result of SIDS. She was trained in first aid but there had been nothing she could do. While we waited for the ambulance I was sitting, by myself, in the children's room with the baby on my lap. Her two-year-old sister wandered in, looked at us and picked up the baby's Teddy bear from the crib. "My Teddy now!" she said to me. "..... would like that." I said. "Take good care of him".
Joy

Muttley are you still in Melbourne. There's a wonderful festival next weekend just East of there. I could sing "Waltzing with Bears" for you if you'd like to meet me there. Cheers Joy

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Muttley
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 03:03 AM

Tell me where and when - if it doesn't interfere with my umpiring, I'd be honoured.

Where did you do your nursing?

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Muttley
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 05:31 AM

PS - I've only been busking in the last 8 months or so - never had the confidence to do it before - and since beoming an ABI thanks to the m/cycle accident and forgetting how to play; I had to relearn - very simplified. Can't barre chord or fingerpick any more and I cant remember chordings - even to songs I know well so I print up all the songs I can do with a line of lyric and the corrsponding chords placed above where the changes occur - and so I've taught myself to read two lines at once and play the chords as I go.

Probably seen as cheating in some circles - but at least I still have some music left!

I busk because I love to play - the coin I get is just a bonus.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Muttley
Date: 11 Feb 06 - 07:50 AM

Sorry; just realised when writing about Asperger's I stopped the 'obsessions' bit at music! D'oh (Simpsons is NOT one of them - though it and Futurama and comics DEFINITELY are for my youngest - the severly Aspie one)

My other obsessions are, Dinosaurs couple of hundred models and figurines / realistic toys as well as over 50 texts and 200 plus 'other' books, magazines and video's.

World War II aeroplanes (all nations) , German tanks and artillery in scale models + some battleships.

Books - especially Tolkien, Anne McCaffrey, David Eddings, Terry Pratchett, Douglas Adams, and several others

Finally - History - ancient Rome & Egypt and Britain / Europe up to about the end of the Tudor Period

Anyway - let's get back to torturing one another with awful songs :-)

Muttley

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: GUEST,PETER THOMPSON
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 12:38 PM

I love the comments and lyrics but, hey, I just released Where Do You Go To My Lovely on my new CD TAKING A DIVE (HEART FIRST). I liked the song so much that I got Peter Sarstedt to sing harmony on two of the cuts on my CD! He's a great guy and you are all wrong about Marie Claire. Listen for free www.cdbaby.com/cd/peterthompson
Enjoy!

Subject: Lyr Add: TWO LITTLE BOYS
From: Ian Burdon
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 02:46 PM

Tunesmith wrote:- "Interestingly, Sacha Distel was just an obscure ex-boyfiend of Brigitte Bardot when the song came out. Later, of course, he became quite a big star in the UK."

In the late fifties/early sixties he was quite the rising star on jazz guitar and it is said that the relationship with La Bardot was terminated when she realised that he was beginning to catch up with her in the fame stakes. In France he was sufficiently well known and respected for George Brassens to give him a song (Le Myosotis)

Anyway, I've enjoyed reading through this thread and to add to all of the above highlights of popular song would offer the following which UK and OZ readers will recognise immediately. Feel free to sing along; one, two, three...

Two little boys had two little toys
Each had a wooden horse
Gaily they played each summer's day
Warriors both of course
One little chap then had a mishap
Broke off his horse's head
Wept for his toy then cried with joy
As his young playmate said

Did you think I would leave you crying
When there's room on my horse for two
Climb up here Jack and don't be crying
I can go just as fast with two
When we grow up we'll both be soldiers
And our horses will not be toys
And I wonder if we'll remember
When we were two little boys

Long years had passed, war came so fast
Bravely they marched away
Cannon roared loud, and in the mad crowd
Wounded and dying lay
Up goes a shout, a horse dashes out
Out from the ranks so blue
Gallops away to where Joe lay
Then came a voice he knew

Did you think I would leave you dying
When there's room on my horse for two
Climb up here Joe, we'll soon be flying
I can go just as fast with two
Did you say Joe I'm all a-tremble
Perhaps it's the battle's noise
But I think it's that I remember
When we were two little boys

Do you think I would leave you dying
There's room on my horse for two
Climb up here Joe, we'll soon by flying
Back to the ranks so blue
Can you feel Joe I'm all a tremble
Perhaps it's the battle's noise
But I think it's that I remember
When we were two little boys

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Leadfingers
Date: 13 Oct 07 - 09:23 PM

I missed this thread completely in '06 ! Wasnt I lucky ?

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: LeTenebreux
Date: 29 Oct 07 - 10:23 PM

This song figures big in the recent Wes Anderson film, "The Darjeeling Limited". In fact, I suspect it's pretty much the kernel for the whole movie.
So....I'm bumping the thread.

Subject: Lyr Add: FOREVER AND EVER AMEN (Randy Travis)
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 30 Oct 07 - 07:14 AM

Peace, you missed this:
Forever And Ever, Amen
Randy Travis

You may think that I'm talking foolish
You've heard that I'm wild and I'm free
You may wonder how I can promise you now
This love that I feel for you
Always will be

You're not just time that I'm killing
I'm no longer one of those guys
As sure as live
This love that I give
Is gonna be yours until the day that I die
Oh baby

CHORUS:
I'm gonna love you forever
Forever and ever, amen
As long as old men sit and talk about the weather
As long as old women sit and talk about old men
If you wonder how long I'll be faithful
(I'll be happy to tell you again/Just listen to how this song ends)
I'm gonna love you
Forever and ever
Forever and ever amen

They say time takes its toll on a body
Makes a young girl's brown hair turn gray
Well, honey, I don't care
I ain't in love with your hair
And if it all fell out
I'd love you anyway

Well, they say time can play tricks on a memory
Make people forget things they knew
Well, it's easy to see
It's happening to me
I've already forgotten every women but you
Oh baby

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: GUEST
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 08:53 AM

Actually marie claire was a women sho peter fell in love with Napples who died in a fire.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Snuffy
Date: 08 Nov 08 - 07:45 PM

According to Wikipedia:

It is often suspected that the name Marie-Claire is inspired by the originally French Marie Claire magazine, a women's fashion weekly first published in 1937. One theory says that this song is about the Italian star Sophia Loren, who was abandoned by her father and had a poverty stricken life in Naples. Another theory has the song being inspired by singer and actress Nina van Pallandt. In reality, Peter Sarstedt wrote the song about a girl he fell madly in love with in Vienna in 1965. She died tragically in a hotel fire.[citation needed] The song was written in Copenhagen. (Confirmation of this fact can be found on the CD cover of "The Best of Peter Sarstedt", EMI, nr. 8297622, Australian CD).

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Snuffy
Date: 09 Nov 08 - 04:41 AM

Has anybody else heard this verse? Is it Sarstedt's or someone else's addition?

You go to the embassy parties
Where you talk in Russian and Greek
And the young men who move in your circles
Hang on to ev'ry word that you speak

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Mysha
Date: 09 Nov 08 - 05:16 AM

Hi Snuffy,

That's the third verse.

It's:

1 Dietrich
2 Apartment
3 Parties
Chorus

4 Qualifications
5 Vacation
6 St. Moritz
Chorus

7 20 - 30
8 High places
9 Married
Chorus

10 Naples
11 Marie-Clare
Finale


                                                                Mysha

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 09 Nov 08 - 05:54 AM

just read thru this thread. does anyone remember the Bob Williamson parody?

On that album done by Joe Stead's Sweet Folk and Country label with Brownsville Banned and Bernard Wrigley on the front. its a bugger being old and no one knows what you're talking about.

Your friend , they all in high places
Alf Biggs from the chippy is one
he bought you a cucumber for Christmas,
And you play with it - just for fun....for a laugh, for a joke, ha! ha! ha!

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Cretzon
Date: 09 Nov 08 - 12:06 PM

Snuffy - If you go onto YouTube and search Peter Sarstedt and Where Do You Go To My Lovely, there's a video of him doing the song much more recently than the usual one you see. I think there are two extra verses in this version.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 16 Nov 08 - 06:58 PM

CHILDREN'S CHORUS:

Grocer Jack, grocer Jack,
Get off your back, get into town,
Don't let us down, oh no-o, no-o...

Sorry, I just felt a sudden urge to clench my buttocks...

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 12:21 AM

It's fun to read over some of this thread again. I have to say that one of the aforementioned songs, Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is one of the most spectacular examples of wretchedly bad, horribly melodramatic lyrical and emotive excess that has ever been heard in the annals of recorded music. It's downright astonishing. I used to hear it occasionally on some radio station or other and I would always sort of freeze and just listen...in a state of mixed horror and fascination. Kind of like you just can't avoid looking at a grisly auto accident as you pass by...

Wouldn't she get a little embarrassed to sing that song? Well, I guess not, but who knows? Maybe her agent said, "This will make you a ton of money." ;-)

Subject: Lyr Add: TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES (Peter Sarstedt)
From: GUEST
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 01:27 AM

I have a 45rpm of Peter Sarstedt (United Artists UP35041) released 1969 the A side is "As Though It Were A Movie" from the album of the same name, the B side of that is TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES as mentioned earlier.

I just played it again and was reminded how controversial it was at the time, at least as far as the BBC were concerned. It's still a nice quite chirpy tongue in cheek little number. I like it.

PETER SARSTEDT. TAKE OFF YOUR CLOTHES

Take off your clothes let me see what it is that you're hiding
And don't look so shocked you have nothing to fear from my eyes

My daddy is a priest you know
And I am not a beast you know
I just want to look
I just want to look

So take off your clothes and stand naked as nature intended
And I'll take off mine just to show you that I'm in good faith

My daddy is a priest you know
And I am not a beast you know
I just want to look
I just want to look

Well now you can see that it isn't as bad as all that
So lie on the bed and I'll talk of my unhappy childhood

My daddy is the pope you know
And I just want to grope you know
No, I just want to love
Yes I just want to love

Well it will not hurt you I promise you that cross my heart
The first time is always the best you can ask anybody, ask your mother

My daddy is a priest you know
And I am not a beast you know
I just want to feel
I just want to feel

Well how can you say that I brought you here just for one purpose
There's thousands of girls I could get if I just wanted that, yes there are

My daddy is a priest you know
And I am not a beast you know
I just want to love
I just want to love

Well how does it feel now that you are no longer a maiden
What do you mean you want more and you want it right now, oh my God

My daddy is a priest you know
And I am not a beast you know
I just want to sleep
I just want to sleep

Take off your clothes let me see what it is that you're hiding
And don't look so shocked you have nothing to fear from my eyes


whb

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: pavane
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 02:19 AM

"Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" is one of the most spectacular examples of wretchedly bad, horribly melodramatic lyrical and emotive excess that has ever been heard in the annals of recorded music"

"This will make you a ton of money." Too right, and surely there have been far worse hit songs over the years. (The list in this thread!)

I will ask her next time I see her if she agrees.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: wilbyhillbilly
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 08:42 AM

Peter Sarstedt 18 Nov 08 1.27am post is mine, just realised it came in as Guest.

Sorted cookie.

Subject: RE: 'Where do you go to my Lovely' - Discuss
From: Little Hawk
Date: 18 Nov 08 - 01:27 PM

"there have been far worse hit songs over the years"

No question about that, pavane. ;-) It's like trying to determine which fish dives the deepest, isn't it? The competition is fierce!