"Tom's Diner" by D.N.A. Featuring Suzanne Vega.
MOTHERS ROCKING
Subject: PLEASE HELP!!!! I HAVE A SONG IN MY HEAD AND I CANT FIGURE IT
OUT!!!!!!!!!!!
From: "Chris Anderson" <gcol...@flash.net>
Date: Fri, 25 June 1999 01:36 AM EDT
Message-id: <yzEc3.802$M7....@news.flash.net>
Hi,
Can someone please tell me the artist and song title of this one song
where the woman says "do do do do" throughout the whole song, and the tune
to it goes along with that phrase. It is driving me crazy, and I would
really appreciate your help.
Thank you
Chris
gcol...@flash.net
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Subject: Re: PLEASE HELP!!!! I HAVE A SONG IN MY HEAD AND I CANT FIGURE IT
From: "nancy g." <nan...@tiac.net>
Date: Fri, 25 June 1999 01:51 AM EDT
Message-id: <377318FD...@tiac.net>
"Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.
Also known as the "Nick at Nite" commercial for "I Dream of Jeannie".
-----Actual Artist-----
"Tom's Diner" by D.N.A. Featuring Suzanne Vega.
98YCR, Playing Tomorrow's Music Today, York, Pennsylvania.
Listening to anything else is like kissing your sister.
The radio station promoting family values: ROCKIN' like a MOTHER!
nancy g.
(The following post has been reformatted in order
to conform to the established Usenet conventions
ordinarily followed when quoting previous posts)
>> "Chris Anderson" <gcol...@flash.net> wrote
>> > Can someone please tell me the artist and song title of this
>> > one song where the woman says "do do do do" throughout the
>> > whole song, and the tune to it goes along with that phrase.
>> > It is driving me crazy, and I would really appreciate your help.
> "nancy g." <nan...@tiac.net> wrote:
>> "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.
MOTHERS ROCKING wrote:
> -----Actual Artist-----
>
> "Tom's Diner" by D.N.A. Featuring Suzanne Vega.
>
> 98YCR, Playing Tomorrow's Music Today, York, Pennsylvania.
You'd think somebody who purports to be speaking for an alleged
radio station would get their FACTS straight, wouldn't you?
"Tom's Diner" first appeared on the *SOLO* Suzanne Vega album
Solitude Standing, her second album, released in April of 1987.
(She had written the song in 1982). The DNA remix was released
three years later, in 1990, without her knowledge or permission.
Here's a quote from Suzanne Vega herself, talking about the remix:
"...If I thought it was bad I would have sued them (DNA).
But I thought it was funny and inventive and I never dreamed
that it would be a big hit. And I was really happy when
I realized that it was going to an audience that is normally
not my audience.
...I get letters from people. They hate DNA. My feeling is,
why not experiment. If you hate that, if you hate "Tom's Diner"
by DNA then don't listen. Go back to SOLITUDE STANDING. It still
exists in the original form. There's no reason to get hysterical.
People feel upset but I don't feel that way. I think it's fun..."
And another quote:
"Many of you heard the "DNA featuring Suzanne Vega" remix of
"Tom's Diner" that was out last year, and most of you know the
story. Two enterprising young men from England calling themselves
DNA sampled the song from Solitude Standing, added a dance
track, and released it on a bootleg record as "Oh Suzanne".
Within three days the record company swooped down and apprehended
them. "What shall we do?" they asked me. "Let's release it as
a single," I said, and so they did.
She released a compilation album called "Tom's Album" in September
of 1991 which included the following covers of the song, as well as
a few other selections:
D.N.A. featuring Suzanne Vega: Rusted Pipe (remix)
Suzanne Vega: Tom's Diner
Peter Behrens: Dep De Do Dep
Nikki D.: Daddy's Little Girl
Vocal by Beth Watson: Waiting At the Border
Michigan & Smiley: Tom's Diner
N.D.A. Project: Tom's Diner
Marilyn E. Whitelaw & Mark Davis: Jeannie's Diner
After One: Tom's Diner Rap
Mats Hojer: Tages Kafe
Bingo Hand Job: Tom's ?
Suzanne Vega: Tom's Diner (Reprise)
D.N.A. featuring Suzanne Vega: Tom's Diner (remix)
Even more information about the song can be found at the following URL:
Face it, ABBA, you're out of your league here. Don't mess with us.
mamu
nancy g. wrote:
--
"I'm gonna live the life I sing about in my song."
nancy g.
> you GO nancy!
Thank you, thank you ... (She bows. The crowd goes wild.)
> nancy g. wrote:
(snip of my factual and informative, not to mention
historically accurate, post about "Tom's Diner")
Y'know what, though? I don't think we've heard back yet from the
original poster about whether or not "Tom's Diner" was the song
they were thinking of. Remember, all they said what that the words
were something like "do do do do do" sung by a woman and repeated
throughout the song. Now, that immediately made me think it had to
be "Tom's Diner", but I guess there's probably a few other songs
that would fit that general description too.
>> >> "Chris Anderson" <gcol...@flash.net> wrote
>> >> > Can someone please tell me the artist and song title of this
>> >> > one song where the woman says "do do do do" throughout the
>> >> > whole song, and the tune to it goes along with that phrase.
>> >> > It is driving me crazy, and I would really appreciate your help.
Chris? Are you out there?
*Was* the song you were thinking of "Tom's Diner" ???
(You know, the song with SUZANNE VEGA singing ALL BY HERSELF)?
Erin Wilson
Nanc... you rock!
:)
erin
"nancy g." wrote:
>
> (The following post has been reformatted in order
> to conform to the established Usenet conventions
> ordinarily followed when quoting previous posts)
<snipping wildly>
The Warped Vinyl Junkie
answer, and concur heartily with mamu and Erin...rock on, Nancy!
JohnnyO
nancy g.
<grin> Wow, look who I dragged out of the woodwork!
Good to see you, Johnny. It's been a while. Don't be
such a stranger around here -- after all, it's mostly
a friendly group. Well, except for a certain AOL'er who
just doesn't GET it, that is.
(Picturing all of us ... you, me, mamu, Erin, Wayne,
Robin Hood, the Tuckers, and the other regulars ...
all wearing our alt.music.lyrics gang shirts, making a trip
to PA to talk to the folk at that radio station in person ...)
mamu
nancy g. wrote:
--
The Warped Vinyl Junkie
>Good to see you again Johnny. We've missed you.
>nancy g. wrote:
>> <grin> Wow, look who I dragged out of the woodwork!
Well...let's just say that I was dragged outta the wormholes by a certain
worm who shall remain nameless...but it was Mostly Nancy's immediate
doing...with a LOT of prodding from (will you be my) mamu...coupled with an
undying lust for that woman with the Irish Protestant name...
But who gives a flying flutterby (note: "five" does NOT rhyme with "mine,"
folks)...the point is, no matter how much time I have to be the Barney, I am
SO happy to be here...and I swear and affirm and pledge perverse allegiance
to do my best to Elvis, my country (I live in the US but my country is the
UK, no matter whether they know it or not), to preserve, protect, and defend
the ears of anyone who thinks they know the Mondegreens of the world....and
expose them to the correct words to whatever lyric (one lyric...one
song...y'all know me) they prefer...
H'mmm...was that a bit over the top?
XXOO, all my buddies (male) and loves (female),
JohnnyO
who still believes in Love
>> (Picturing all of us ... you, me, mamu, Erin, Wayne,
>> Robin Hood, the Tuckers, and the other regulars ...
>> all wearing our alt.music.lyrics gang shirts, making a trip
>> to PA to talk to the folk at that radio station in person ...)
How about a meeting at Bellm's/Horne's "Cars and Music of Yesteryear" in
Sarasota, FL? Sounds useful to me...
-J. O.
nancy g.
The Warped Vinyl Junkie wrote:
> How about a meeting at Bellm's/Horne's "Cars and Music
> of Yesteryear" in Sarasota, FL? Sounds useful to me...
Sounds intriguing but extremely un-doable to me ...
but it does make me wonder: Whereabouts (in general)
are the bunch of us pseudo-regulars from, anyway?
I'm from New England (Massachusetts, actually). JohnnyO,
I know from previous correspondence that you don't live
too far away from my sister in Kain-tucky ... how about any
other of the regulars? Where are you guys?
Ronald E. Hontz
"nancy g." wrote:
> I'm from New England (Massachusetts, actually). JohnnyO,
> I know from previous correspondence that you don't live
> too far away from my sister in Kain-tucky ... how about any
> other of the regulars? Where are you guys?
Southcentral PA here--40 miles North of Baltimore.
Erin Wilson
I'm like, ya know, from San Diego, California (even though for some
reason I occasionally tawk like a New Englandah, dahlinks)
I, of course, think the best place for the road trip is... DISNEYLAND! yahoo!
Actually, The San Diego Zoo is more representative of this group :)
erin
---
"nancy g." wrote:
>
> The Warped Vinyl Junkie wrote:
>
> > How about a meeting at Bellm's/Horne's "Cars and Music
> > of Yesteryear" in Sarasota, FL? Sounds useful to me...
>
> Sounds intriguing but extremely un-doable to me ...
> but it does make me wonder: Whereabouts (in general)
> are the bunch of us pseudo-regulars from, anyway?
>
Bunty Pritchard Jones
Junkie <Ready...@hotmail.com> writes
>Well...let's just say that I was dragged outta the wormholes by a certain
>worm who shall remain nameless...but it was Mostly Nancy's immediate
>doing...with a LOT of prodding from (will you be my) mamu...coupled with an
>undying lust for that woman with the Irish Protestant name...
>
>But who gives a flying flutterby (note: "five" does NOT rhyme with "mine,"
>folks)...the point is, no matter how much time I have to be the Barney, I am
>SO happy to be here...and I swear and affirm and pledge perverse allegiance
>to do my best to Elvis, my country (I live in the US but my country is the
>UK, no matter whether they know it or not), to preserve, protect, and defend
>the ears of anyone who thinks they know the Mondegreens of the world....and
>expose them to the correct words to whatever lyric (one lyric...one
>song...y'all know me) they prefer...
>
>H'mmm...was that a bit over the top?
>
>XXOO, all my buddies (male) and loves (female),
>JohnnyO
>who still believes in Love
>
>>> (Picturing all of us ... you, me, mamu, Erin, Wayne,
>>> Robin Hood, the Tuckers, and the other regulars ...
>>> all wearing our alt.music.lyrics gang shirts, making a trip
>>> to PA to talk to the folk at that radio station in person ...)
>
>
>Sarasota, FL? Sounds useful to me...
>
So, how come I got missed out of this list then? [Grin]
Bunty :}
--
Bunty Pritchard Jones
http://www.the-antiques.demon.co.uk
Harley + Barb Tuck
Where? Where are those Tuckers? Maybe they are kin to my hubby's
ex-wife's new husband. No kidding. I married a Tuck whose ex-wife later
married a Tucker!! But I think they stick to videos.
Harley and I would be flattered to be included even if it's some other
Tucks you had in mind.
BarbE
Yet another soul who remembers when records were square, and gas was below
20 cents a gallon.
On Fri, 2 Jul 1999, nancy g. wrote:
> The Warped Vinyl Junkie wrote:
>
> > Not often that I pop in here...but I'm glad to have seen
> > Nancy's wonderful answer, and concur heartily with mamu
> > and Erin...rock on, Nancy!
> >
> > JohnnyO
>
> <grin> Wow, look who I dragged out of the woodwork!
>
> Good to see you, Johnny. It's been a while. Don't be
> such a stranger around here -- after all, it's mostly
> a friendly group. Well, except for a certain AOL'er who
> just doesn't GET it, that is.
>
> (Picturing all of us ... you, me, mamu, Erin, Wayne,
> Robin Hood, the Tuckers, and the other regulars ...
> all wearing our alt.music.lyrics gang shirts, making a trip
> to PA to talk to the folk at that radio station in person ...)
>
>
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B: Courage--fear that has said its prayers. - Dorothy Bernard
Bunty Pritchard Jones
writes
>Hey Kids!
>
>I'm like, ya know, from San Diego, California (even though for some
>reason I occasionally tawk like a New Englandah, dahlinks)
>
>I, of course, think the best place for the road trip is... DISNEYLAND! yahoo!
>
>Actually, The San Diego Zoo is more representative of this group :)
>
>erin
>
>---
nancy g.
> Nancy G,
>
> Where? Where are those Tuckers? Maybe they are kin to
> my hubby's ex-wife's new husband. No kidding. I married
> a Tuck whose ex-wife later married a Tucker!! But I think
> they stick to videos.
Sheesh. Make *ONE LITTLE MISTAKE* and see who doesn't
ever let you forget. Hmmph.
> Harley and I would be flattered to be included even
> if it's some other Tucks you had in mind.
Nope. Y'all guys are the only Tucks, Tuckers, Tuckahoes,
or any other variation thereof that I could *possibly*
have been thinking of, and I humbly beg your forgiveness
for the mangling of your name.
Now be nice and forgive me, or I'll get my friends
Johnny N. and muma after you!
(for those who missed it, H. and B. were nice enough
to quote my erroneous words in their post:)
>> (Picturing all of us ... you, me, mamu, Erin, Wayne,
>> Robin Hood, the Tuckers, and the other regulars ...
>> all wearing our alt.music.lyrics gang shirts, making
>> a trip to PA [...]
Sigh.
nancy g.
who's only human. well, sometimes, anyway.
Harley + Barb Tuck
> Harley + Barb Tuck wrote:
>
> > Nancy G,
> >
> > Where? Where are those Tuckers? Maybe they are kin to
> > my hubby's ex-wife's new husband. No kidding. I married
> > a Tuck whose ex-wife later married a Tucker!! But I think
> > they stick to videos.
Absolutely true story!
> Sheesh. Make *ONE LITTLE MISTAKE* and see who doesn't
> ever let you forget. Hmmph.
>
Gosh who would treat you like that. I'll sock 'em for ya.
> > Harley and I would be flattered to be included even
> and I humbly beg your forgiveness
> for the mangling of your name.
>
Nancy, it could have been horribly worse. And the two keys aren't far
apart on the keyboard.
> Now be nice and forgive me, or I'll get my friends
> Johnny N. and muma after you!
Not that, please, please. I forgive, I forgive.
Just to be lyrical++ Who had the hit "Still the One" in the 70's?
like "You're still the one, who can scratch my itch" No, no no Shania
Twain -that's a different song. Today is our 7th anniversary and we can
remember the song but not who sang it.
Twinkles,
BarbE
Erin Wilson
The Warped Vinyl Junkie
>that's a little nuts..i'm a lurker from jersey, but i recently moved up
from
>venice, right outside sarasota, and i know the exact place vinyl junkie's
>talking about...that's pretty freakin' cool. B^Ş
Glad to have ya lurkin, Andy...and I do recommend Horne's/Bellm's to anyone
and everyone with more than a passing interest in recording devices from
music boxes to Soundies...
JohnnyO
The Warped Vinyl Junkie
>but it does make me wonder: Whereabouts (in general)
>are the bunch of us pseudo-regulars from, anyway?
>I know from previous correspondence that you don't live
>too far away from my sister in Kain-tucky ... how about any
>other of the regulars? Where are you guys?
Used to be...now I'm back with my record collection in Chattanooga,
TN...Scenic Center of the South and home of way too much vinyl to do anyone
any good...
JohnnyO
The Warped Vinyl Junkie
>So, how come I got missed out of this list then? [Grin]
OOH! I didn't really do that, did I?
Shades of when I tried to wish everyone on the www.lyrics.ch NG seasonal
greetings last year...sheesh!
Mea culpa, mea maxima culpa, Bunty babe...please forgive my momentary lapse
of reason...but remember, that whole message betrayed a more than momentary
lapse of...ummm...something...
XXOO,
JohnnyO
Robert J. Baker
1999 12:30:13 +0100, forbids such page content as this message from
Bunty Pritchard Jones
<bpritch...@the-antiques.demon.co.uk></satire>:
>>[...] and I swear and affirm and pledge perverse allegiance
>>to do my best to Elvis, my country (I live in the US but my country is the
>>UK, no matter whether they know it or not), to preserve, protect, and defend
>>the ears of anyone who thinks they know the Mondegreens of the world....and
>>expose them to the correct words to whatever lyric (one lyric...one
>>song...y'all know me) they prefer...
But why diss mondegreens?? They are SO MUCH fun... sometimes better
than the proper lyric... ;<) (In "Killer Queen", for example, I am
sure that "Got mind-activity" is an improvement on the correct
"Gunpowder, gelatine"...)
I know there must be N*10^6 people who agree with this point of view,
else http://www.kissthisguy.com wouldn't be so popular...
--
"It's so nice to be insane/No one asks you to explain"
-- Helen Reddy, "Angie Baby"
The Warped Vinyl Junkie
Robert J. Baker wrote in message...
>>>[...] and I swear and affirm and pledge perverse
allegiance
>>>to do my best to Elvis, my country (I live in the US but my country is
the
>>>UK, no matter whether they know it or not), to preserve, protect, and
defend
>>>the ears of anyone who thinks they know the Mondegreens of the
world....and
>>>expose them to the correct words to whatever lyric (one lyric...one
>>>song...y'all know me) they prefer...
>But why diss mondegreens?? They are SO MUCH fun... sometimes better
>than the proper lyric... ;<) (In "Killer Queen", for example, I am
>sure that "Got mind-activity" is an improvement on the correct
>"Gunpowder, gelatine"...)
>I know there must be N*10^6 people who agree with this point of view,
>else http://www.kissthisguy.com wouldn't be so popular...
Since I believe those were originally my words, not Bunty's, I thought I
ought to say that I was not dissing Mondegreens...I LOVE them, and I even do
what I can to pervert song lyrics of my own. My point, made in regard to
the errors in posted (supposedly accurate) lyrics is that each posting of a
Mondegreen within a lyric cheapens the work of the lyricist, and makes
people believe that an error is accurate. I mean, I may sing "there's
something about her halo and mine," and be perfectly happy with it, but I
need not foist that upon someone who wants to know the CORRECT lyric, and
for me to do so is to perpetuate a falsehood, pervert the author's
intentions, and fail to educate thanks to my incorrect communication..
Mondegreens ARE fun (bet I've already got you trying to figure out the above
line; hints: British, early '70s), but they are fun only if the correct
lyrics are known and are knowable. I will still pledge myself to wipe out
Mondegreens WITHIN supposedly accurate transcriptions of lyrics.
Just ask mamu...she claims I'm still in charge of "quality control"...
JohnnyO
Martha
I'm from New England (Massachusetts, actually). JohnnyO,
too far away from my sister in Kain-tucky ... how about any
other of the regulars? Where are you guys?
Not a regular, new to group, just posting requests, but from New England, New Hampshire, formerly from Massachusetts also!!
Martha
formerly from Beverly, MA-North Shore above Boston
and you?
Dr Harmonica
> formerly from Beverly, MA-North Shore above Boston
>
> and you?
How does Amsterdam - Netherlands sound? (you know: windmills, clogs, dykes,
tulips and hashies)
Happy harpin'
Doc - from the polder, with a finger in the dyke (or was it dike?)
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Inkling
<mjmj...@landmarknet.net> wrote:
>Hi all -Nancy wrote:
>I'm from New England (Massachusetts, actually). JohnnyO,=20
>I know from previous correspondence that you don't live=20
>too far away from my sister in Kain-tucky ... how about any=20
>other of the regulars? Where are you guys?
>
>Not a regular, new to group, just posting requests, but from New =
>England, New Hampshire, formerly from Massachusetts also!! =20
I currently live close to the route 95/128 belt, even though I'm new
and not a regular. I'm between North and South Shore, I guess.
>
>Martha
>formerly from Beverly, MA-North Shore above Boston
>
>and you?
>
I wish you well,
Inkling
Please insert clever statement here.
Laurie McIntosh
>there's something about her halo and mine
Now that would be "Love knows (Where my Rosemary goes)" I think...
And I think the real lyric was
There's somethin' about her hand holdin' mine
....and on the point of the thread, the Mondegren is the superior lyric. Just
as introducing the mysterious Lady Mondegren spiced up an otherwise
unremarkable poem. But I agree with JohnnyO - the internet shouldn't just be
about spreading disinformation.
--
Regards,
Laurie McIntosh