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Lyr Req: be-bop, my lady, said love

25 Mar 03 - 05:34 PM (#918304)
Subject: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: GUEST,barney bones

i have had this song going through my head for about 6 weeks now, i heard it on the radio at work but missed the title. sadly, i can only remember a couple of lines and that it sounds like curiosity killed the cat (the band not the song), although i'm pretty certain it wasn't them as i have compiled most of their back catalogue in an attempt to find the song.

anyway for anyone who likes a challenge here is the (very) little i can remember:

be-bop my lady, said love,
gonna fight for the right to get into your heart

don't wanna work for you no more

not much to go on i know but i'm just hoping that someone out there may know it. alternatively i am being very dense and it is quite famous. any help appreciated.


25 Mar 03 - 05:44 PM (#918315)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Bill D

??and how did you decide a folk/blues site was the place to ask?

(bracing myself for the inevitable follow-up posts about not being 'welcoming')


25 Mar 03 - 06:20 PM (#918345)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Noreen

Bill, how did you decide that it's not folk/blues? *grin*


25 Mar 03 - 07:35 PM (#918397)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: GUEST,barney bones

hey, if you don't ask you don't get. looked like there was a chance so i appeal to anyone who may know.


25 Mar 03 - 07:59 PM (#918413)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Mudlark

Sorry Barney, never heard it. But it cant be any worse than the request for "I Love You, a Bushel and a Peck" that has been on the forum for days now....and I have THAT going around in my brain, like an insane wasp buzzing in a spider web. No matter what your song sounds like, it's got to be better than that!


26 Mar 03 - 08:03 AM (#918670)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: JJ

I dunno, Mudlark. Next to a lyric like "Be-bop my lady, said love," "I Love You, a Bushel and a Peck" looks like the Loesser of two evils...


26 Mar 03 - 05:50 PM (#919094)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Leadfingers

To be Frank JJ Thats a terrible joke.AS worse as mine in fact.


26 Mar 03 - 06:09 PM (#919113)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Mudlark

You guys are insanse ...


26 Mar 03 - 06:20 PM (#919119)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: GUEST,Celtaddict

Dick Swain says that the phenomenon you describe, of a song or line running interminably through your mind, is called an earworm. It is evidently from a German phrase, though what the German for earworm would be is beyond my ken.


26 Mar 03 - 07:33 PM (#919179)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Snuffy

Ohrwurm? Ohrenwurm?


26 Mar 03 - 07:54 PM (#919205)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insanse trying to remember
From: Snuffy

And what happened to INSANSE?


27 Mar 03 - 07:06 AM (#919459)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Wolfgang

Ohrwurm! (and we use it exactly in that sense as earworm)

Dieses Lied ist ein richtiger Ohrwurm

Wolfgang


27 Mar 03 - 08:04 AM (#919499)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Bill D

"Bill, how did you decide that it's not folk/blues?"

well..."be-bop" was one clue. *grin*...The cutesy name of some band was another.
"hey, if you don't ask you don't get"...true...and if you go to your local Chinese restaurant and ask for Lasagna, you 'may' find a cook that does a Cantonese version, but most would not understand why you even asked.


27 Mar 03 - 08:17 AM (#919515)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Alasdair

Bill is right. Folk people sing "fol-de-rol" where others might sing be-bop.


27 Mar 03 - 01:34 PM (#919858)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Bat Goddess

Ohrwurm/earworm! I love it. Still kicking myself for never learning German, especially since I grew up in Milwaukee where it was taught in every school. And me a Schulz (and a Koch) yet!

Gonna get some mileage out of this term (even more than dudelsackpfeifer or however it's spelled).

Linn


27 Mar 03 - 01:58 PM (#919889)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Charley Noble

Be-bop my lady, said love,
Gonna fight for the right to get into your heart,
Gonna fight for a bite, that's good for a start,
I'll be through with you before daylight,
But I'll score some more tomorrow night!

Don't wanna work for you no more,
I owe my soul to the company store.

This came to me in a dream. Hope it helps!

Cheerily,
Charley Noble


27 Mar 03 - 04:52 PM (#920003)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: GUEST,JTT

Ummm... probably not this:

http://www.leoslyrics.com/listlyrics.php?id=100253

and of course not this Beastie Boys one:

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~harel/cgi/page/htmlit?Fight_bb.html


27 Mar 03 - 05:33 PM (#920035)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: Bob Bolton

G'day Celtaddict, Snuffy, Wolfgang and Bat Goddess,

I believe the old English equivalent term, for both songs and tunes that ran round your head, was a "maggot" - and there are many dance tunes from the Elizabethan period onward named (Someone's) Maggot.

Regards,

Bob Bolton


27 Mar 03 - 06:03 PM (#920062)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: going insane trying to remember
From: GUEST

I just found this place -- does someone need the lyrics to "I Love You A Bushel and a Peck?" I'm old enough to remember that song, sad to say.