awful songs
Mark Babin
BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS
and RUN JOEY RUN
Does anyone remember these???
or is it all just an illusion..L
Brian
Unfortunately, yes.
Larry Lujack, the greatest dj ever, here in Chicago, used to really
deflate "Run, Joey, Run." In the part near the end where he sings "And
here's the last words Julie said.." Lujack would play a clip from a
"blooper" where a little girl said "I gotta go to the toilet." Lujack
couldn't hide when he hated songs he was forced to play.
More candidates for "Songs that Made the 70's Stupid:"
Hooked on a Feeling-- Blue Swede ("ooga-chuga, ooga-chuga")
Kung Fu Fighting-- Carl Douglas
Billy, Don't Be a Hero-- Bo Donaldsen and the Heywoods
The Night Chicago Died-- Paper Lace
Brian
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Charles Hobbs
Mark Babin wrote:
>
> BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS
> and RUN JOEY RUN
> Does anyone remember these???
> or is it all just an illusion..L
No. They're for real (Bob? Geddes or something).
Kind of like the Bobby Goldsboro songs. They all kind of
"get you right here" (pointing to heart), right?
Steve Ellis
Goldsboro....he did that song about the guy whose wife ran off with the bikers?
One day while I was not at home
While she was there and all alone
The Angels came...
Steve
(whose mother played that song 'til I thought I was gonna die)
jenkins
No it is not just an illusion. I happen to like "BLIND MAN IN THE
BLEACHERS". Actually, I wish I could find a copy of this song on CD.
If anyone could help me find it, I would appreciate it greatly.
John T. Jenkins
je...@iwl.net
"And the operator says forty cents more for the next three minutes,
please ........" Ray Sawyer
Mark Babin
In article <lsd.275....@neosoft.com>,
l...@neosoft.com (Steve Ellis) wrote:
>In article <3229A2...@primenet.com> Charles Hobbs <tra...@primenet.com> writes:
>
>>>
>>> BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS
>>> and RUN JOEY RUN
>>> Does anyone remember these???
>>> or is it all just an illusion..L
>
>
>>Kind of like the Bobby Goldsboro songs. They all kind of
>>"get you right here" (pointing to heart), right?
>
>Goldsboro....he did that song about the guy whose wife ran off with the bikers?
>
>One day while I was not at home
>While she was there and all alone
>The Angels came...
>
>Steve
>(whose mother played that song 'til I thought I was gonna die)
>
Dogbert
mba...@iglou.com (Mark Babin) wrote:
>BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS
>and RUN JOEY RUN
>Does anyone remember these???
>or is it all just an illusion..L
Run Joey Run was about a girl's father that killed her boyfriend. And
the other one was about a a father that died before his son became a
great football player?
Or something like that if that is the song i am thinking of.
They both were very bad :P~
Dave
Wart
In article <50ci0l$b...@tepe.tezcat.com>, Brian
<jua...@tezcat.com > wrote:
>More candidates for "Songs that Made the 70's Stupid:"
>Hooked on a Feeling-- Blue Swede ("ooga-chuga, ooga-chuga")
"Hooked on a Feeling" may have been stupid but it sure was
fun.
Brian Carling
Brian <jua...@tezcat.com > scribbled eloquently:
|More candidates for "Songs that Made the 70's Stupid:"
|Hooked on a Feeling-- Blue Swede ("ooga-chuga, ooga-chuga")
|Kung Fu Fighting-- Carl Douglas
|Billy, Don't Be a Hero-- Bo Donaldsen and the Heywoods
|The Night Chicago Died-- Paper Lace
ROTFLL - VERY GOOD selections, he he!
|Brian
|********************************************************************
|=84Gentlemen, get the thing straight; the policeman isn=BCt there to create
|disorder-- the policeman is there to preserve disorder.=BE
| The Honorable Richard J. Daley
| Chicago Mayor
| In response to media allegations of
| police brutality during
| 1968 Democratic Convention
|
|
|
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John Saponaro <joh...@village.ios.com> wrote:
>X-No-Archive: Yes
>> >BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS
>> >and RUN JOEY RUN
>> >Does anyone remember these???
>> >or is it all just an illusion..L
>I never really liked RUN JOEY RUN, even after I learned what the song
>was actually about. Thank God the local oldies station doesn't have it
>on its playlist.
>> More candidates for "Songs that Made the 70's Stupid:"
>> Hooked on a Feeling-- Blue Swede ("ooga-chuga, ooga-chuga")
>> Kung Fu Fighting-- Carl Douglas
>> Billy, Don't Be a Hero-- Bo Donaldsen and the Heywoods
>> The Night Chicago Died-- Paper Lace
>Fortunately, I rarely hear those on that station. (It would have been
>nice to see in one of the NINJA TURTLES movie a music video to "Kung Fu
>Fighting," though.)
Torn between two lovers(feelin like a fool) artist unknowen??
One tin Soldier (Billy Jack)
SFHALLY
>
>More candidates for "Songs that Made the 70's Stupid:"
>Hooked on a Feeling-- Blue Swede ("ooga-chuga, ooga-chuga")
>Kung Fu Fighting-- Carl Douglas
>Billy, Don't Be a Hero-- Bo Donaldsen and the Heywoods
>The Night Chicago Died-- Paper Lace
>
>
>
And so many of these songs are appearing on soundtracks now. Look at
"priscilla Queen of the Desert" and "Muriel's Wedding"
Brian
>Torn between two lovers(feelin like a fool) artist unknowen??
>One tin Soldier (Billy Jack)
Coven
Brian
>In article <50ci0l$b...@tepe.tezcat.com>, Brian
><jua...@tezcat.com > wrote:
>>More candidates for "Songs that Made the 70's Stupid:"
>>Hooked on a Feeling-- Blue Swede ("ooga-chuga, ooga-chuga")
>"Hooked on a Feeling" may have been stupid but it sure was
>fun.
And it sure annoyed our parents, didn't it!?
Brian
jenkins
On Mon, 02 Sep 1996 03:48:40 GMT, sam...@sprynet.com (Dogbert) wrote:
>mba...@iglou.com (Mark Babin) wrote:
>
>>BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS
>>and RUN JOEY RUN
>>Does anyone remember these???
>>or is it all just an illusion..L
> Run Joey Run was about a girl's father that killed her boyfriend. And
>the other one was about a a father that died before his son became a
>great football player?
>Or something like that if that is the song i am thinking of.
>They both were very bad :P~
>Dave
>
THE LAST GAME OF THE SEASON (BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS)
CLOSE -- THE FATHER SITS IN THE STANDS FOR EVERY GAME HIS SON
PLAYS AND THE SON NEVER PLAYS, BECAUSE HE IS NOT ONE OF THE "STAR
PLAYERS". THE LAST GAME THE FATHER IS NOT THERE AND DURING HALFTIME
THE SON GET A CALL TELLING HIM HIS FATHER HAS PASSED AWAY. WHILE THE
TEAM IS GETTING IT'S "YOU KNOW WHAT" KICKED THE SON COMES OUT TO THE
FIELD AFTER THE HALF HAS BEEN OVER FOR SOME TIME AND TELLS THE COACH
TO LET HIM IN. AFTER GOING IN HE SPARKS A COME BACK AND THE HOME TEAM
WINS. LATER, WHEN ASKS WHAT HAPPENED THE KID SAYS THAT TONIGHT IS THE
FIRST TIME MY DAD EVER GOT TO WATCH ME PLAY.
RUN JOEY RUN
NOT QUITE AS CLOSE THIS TIME -- THE SONG WAS ABOUT A GIRL AND
BOY WHO HAD AN AFFAIR. SHE BECAME PREGNANT AND AS SOON AS HER FATHER
FOUND OUT HE THREATENS TO KILL THE BOY. HOWEVER WHEN HE SHOOTS AT
HIM THE DAUGHTER GET HIT INSTEAD.
JOHN T. JENKINS
je...@iwl.net
"AND THE OPERATOR SAYS FORTY CENTS MORE FOR THE NEXT THREE MINUTES,
PLEASE........." RAY SAWYER
Paul Goldschmidt
Has anyone checked out WFMU's Worst Song of All Time Contest?
<http://www.wfmu.org> Some pretty interesting votes.
Trudi Marrapodi
> In article <3229A2...@primenet.com> Charles Hobbs
<tra...@primenet.com> writes:
>
> >Mark Babin wrote:
> >>
> >> BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS
> >> and RUN JOEY RUN
> >> Does anyone remember these???
> >> or is it all just an illusion..L
>
> >No. They're for real (Bob? Geddes or something).
*David* Geddes. I only wish they weren't for real! David Geddes had a way
with a song that he would always infuse the already soap-operatic lyrics
with the most sickening, quavering bathos (and if you don't remember the
meaning of that word from college poetry class, look it up). I mean, he
would make the thing sound so sad it just made you want to puke. Although
with "Run Joey Run" he did have help from that girl who sang all the
choruses:
"Daddy please don't,
It wasn't his fault,
He means so much to me,
Daddy please don't,
We're gonna get married,
Just you wait and see!"
Oh, if only I could forget! "Run Joey Run" was the heart-tugging story of
a teenage guy who knocks up his even-younger (probably) girlfriend. Her
daddy comes after him with a gun (no, not for a shotgun wedding--he just
wants to kill the sonofabitch), and the girl throws herself between her
boyfriend and Daddy's gun, just as it goes off, so she dies at the hand of
her own father. Sob, sob, sob.
I once had a coworker who I used to play a joking "torture" game with in
the boring afternoons at work (we were both editors, a glorified title for
typist, at a marketing research company). If one of us "offended" the
other in some way, we'd bark out the title of a song both of us remembered
as being particularly sickening, the idea being that the other one
wouldn't be able to get it out of her head for the rest of the day. "OK,
Lori, that's enough...I think it's time you were reminded of 'Run Joey
Run.'" "Oh please, ANYTHING but 'Run Joey Run!'" Etc., etc.
"Blind Man in the Bleachers" (aka "Last Game of the Season") is the even
more teary (if possible) story of the high-school football player who's a
perennial benchwarmer, but his blind daddy is nevertheless proud of him
and sits in the bleachers at every game, waiting for his son to be called
in on a play. Well, on the night of the last game of the season old Daddy
gets ill and goes to the hospital, but Sonny Boy goes to the game
nevertheless because it's against the school's arch rivals. The first half
is devastation for our home boys--they're losing badly as they go into the
locker room. Our hero is mysteriously called away to the phone for a short
time. When the second half starts, he comes out with the rest of the team,
and darned if Coach doesn't put him in to replace an injured player. He
comes on like gangbusters, makes a zillion great plays, and turns it
around so his team wins and they carry him off the field in glory. When
the reporters cluster around him to ask him what his inspiration was, he
explains (with the right amount of quavering voice): "Tonight, my dad
passed away. This was the first night he ever saw me play." Sob, sob, sob.
I think it was actually based on a true story.
> >Kind of like the Bobby Goldsboro songs. They all kind of
> >"get you right here" (pointing to heart), right?
>
More like...here (pointing down throat) as in, they make you want to barf!
> Goldsboro....he did that song about the guy whose wife ran off with the
bikers?
>
> One day while I was not at home
> While she was there and all alone
> The Angels came...
>
> Steve
> (whose mother played that song 'til I thought I was gonna die)
Oh, I feel so much better now! That song ("Honey") is so sappy it's
miserable. But from now on I'll never be able to hear it without picturing
the Hells Angels rapping on the door and Honey coming out, poured into
leather jeans and a painted-on tube top, wearing some tattoos her hubby
never before knew she had, climbing onto the back of a Hog and roaring off
into the sunset...
"And I long to be with you,
If only I could"
Dave Ranson
Roberta L. Taylor wrote:
>
> "Seasons in the Sun" (a favorite in my high school, possibly
> because we had several students die my senior year), "Teen Angel"
> (yeah, I know, wrong decade)
Okay, Roberta, I'm with you. I actually *liked* "Seasons," (an
admission that probably shoots my credibility on this NG to hell); and
don't worry about "Teen Angel": it and other car-crash songs seemed to
make a comeback in the 70s in the wake of "American Graffiti." You've
got sort of the right decade for them.
> Thinking I'm gonna regret this admission,
> Roberta (aa...@gti.net)
You and me both. :)
D.
Roberta L. Taylor
In article <wwwords-0409...@usr2-132.frontiernet.net>,
Trudi Marrapodi <www...@frontiernet.net> wrote:
>"Blind Man in the Bleachers" (aka "Last Game of the Season") is the even
>more teary (if possible) story of the high-school football player who's a
>perennial benchwarmer, but his blind daddy is nevertheless proud of him
>and sits in the bleachers at every game...
[snipped for bandwidth]
>around so his team wins and they carry him off the field in glory. When
>the reporters cluster around him to ask him what his inspiration was, he
>explains (with the right amount of quavering voice): "Tonight, my dad
>passed away. This was the first night he ever saw me play." Sob, sob, sob.
As I recall, it went:
"You knew my dad was blind" he said. "Well, tonight he passed away.
It's the first time that my father's seen me play." (Not meaning to nit
pick, but parts of this song are stuck in my mind forever.)
Yeah, I agree, it was one of the sappiest songs ever. But (I can't believe
I'm admitting this!) I loved it. I guess I related to it; my mother died
when I was little, and there were a lot of times I'd have given anything
to have her there. "Blind Man in the Bleachers" came out when I was in
college, trying to find a balance between my new-found independence and
the security of a childhood I wished I'd had. It would have been nice to
thing that Mom was sitting on the Celestial Sidelines :-), cheering me on...
Besides, tear-jerker songs were great when you were depressed. :-) Feel
like having a good cry? Put on some good, gloomy music, and you've got the
perfect excuse. :-) I spent more time than I care to admit listening to
such "classics" as "Mary Would Have Wanted it That Way", "She Talked a Lot
About Texas", "Seasons in the Sun" (a favorite in my high school, possibly
because we had several students die my senior year), "Teen Angel" (yeah,
I know, wrong decade), "My Elusive Dream", etc...
C'mon, I can't be the only one who listened to this stuff, can I? I know
I didn't buy enough records to get them as high up on the charts as they
went. :-)
Andrew Crossett
In article <84197090526629@apollo>, aa...@gti.net (Roberta L. Taylor) wrote:
>Besides, tear-jerker songs were great when you were depressed. :-) Feel
>like having a good cry? Put on some good, gloomy music, and you've got the
>perfect excuse. :-) I spent more time than I care to admit listening to
>such "classics" as "Mary Would Have Wanted it That Way", "She Talked a Lot
>About Texas", "Seasons in the Sun" (a favorite in my high school, possibly
>because we had several students die my senior year), "Teen Angel" (yeah,
>I know, wrong decade), "My Elusive Dream", etc...
What about "Wildfire"? I think that song scarred me for life. And as long as
we're talking about wrong decade, how about "Last Kiss", easily the stupidest
tearjerker song ever recorded. I even thought it was sappy when I was 6 years
old.
Andy Crossett
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jim and/or ann
SFHALLY wrote:
> >More candidates for "Songs that Made the 70's Stupid:"
> >Hooked on a Feeling-- Blue Swede ("ooga-chuga, ooga-chuga")
> >Kung Fu Fighting-- Carl Douglas
> >Billy, Don't Be a Hero-- Bo Donaldsen and the Heywoods
> >The Night Chicago Died-- Paper Lace
> And so many of these songs are appearing on soundtracks now. Look at
> "priscilla Queen of the Desert" and "Muriel's Wedding"
Precisely...because they're incredibly evocative of the times.
"The Night Chicago Died" and "Billy Don't Be A Hero" bring back summer
1974 in a way that "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" does not (and I'm a
Steely Dan fan, too).
And, about David Geddes, the man who gave the world "Run Joey
Run" and "The Last Game of the Season"...note the incredible vocal
resemblance to Michael Bolton. Coincidence? You be the judge.
One more thing I've been meaning to mention. While "Billy Don't
Be A Hero" is often reviled here and elsewhere, Bo Donaldson's followup
hit, "Who Do You Think You Are" has got to be one of the finest unknown
records of the 70s. In the liner notes to Rhino's "Have A Nice Day"
volume 13, it's referred to as "the great lost Buckinghams record,"
which is absolutely correct, if you remember "Kind of A Drag" and their
other 60s hits. Can anybody think of another band who made one record so
roundly hated and a second so good?
jim
("you want me there?/you got a dare")
martin Nathan
>
> And, about David Geddes, the man who gave the world "Run Joey
>Run" and "The Last Game of the Season"...note the incredible vocal
>resemblance to Michael Bolton. Coincidence? You be the judge.
>
> I always thought David Geddes sounded a bit like David Cassidy.
Martin Nathan
>
Roberta L. Taylor
In article <50tjkp$u...@ns2.spectra.net>,
Andrew Crossett <a...@spectra.net> wrote:
>In article <84197090526629@apollo>, aa...@gti.net (Roberta L. Taylor) wrote:
>>Besides, tear-jerker songs were great when you were depressed. :-) Feel
>What about "Wildfire"? I think that song scarred me for life.
That one keeps coming back to haunt me...When it was on the charts, I had
a horse named Flyer, so, of course, my SO always sang it as "WildFlyer".
A few years ago, I got a mare named Wildflower, which everyone (even the
vet) mispronounced as Wildfire. Now I have a Skyfire. (I think I'm in
a rut!)
Still, I didn't find it nearly as much a tear-jerker as "Shannon"...at
least, once I learned it was written about a dog. (And now that my dogs
are getting older, that one keeps coming back to haunt me, too. Aaargh!)
Roberta
..who's also getting older. Sigh...
Trudi Marrapodi
In article <51dp28$m...@news.swsbbs.com>, tr...@swsmail.atlanta.com. wrote:
> fr...@pclink.com wrote:
>
>
> >>> >BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS
> >>> >and RUN JOEY RUN
> >>> >Does anyone remember these???
> >>> >or is it all just an illusion..L
>
> >>I never really liked RUN JOEY RUN, even after I learned what the song
> >>was actually about. Thank God the local oldies station doesn't have it
> >>on its playlist.
>
> What is RUN JOEY RUN actually about? I always wondered too!
>
> Trish
OK, class, I thought we already covered this, but here are your Cliff
Notes (tm) on "Run Joey Run":
1. Joey had a girlfriend.
2. Joey knocked up said girlfriend, or, as Bruce Springsteen would put it,
"Joey said he'd pull out/Joey stayed in."
3. When Joey's girlfriend's dad found out, he grabbed a gun and went
looking for Joey--but he didn't have a wedding on his mind; rather, a
funeral.
4. In the song, Joey's girlfriend calls him to warn him of this (hence the
song title), then heads over to his house to try to prevent the
inevitable.
5. Dad gets to Joey's house, daughter running after him. In the climax (so
to speak) of the song, Joey's girlfriend throws herself in front of her
father's gun and takes the bullet for Joey.
6. With her dying breath, she repeats the chorus one last time:
"Daddy please don't,
It wasn't his fault,
He means so much to me.
Daddy please don't.
We're gonna get...mar-ried..."
End of lesson.
There will be a test Tuesday. And I will expect complete bluebook essays
comparing and contrasting the plot of "Run Joey Run" to that of the other
great tragedy of teenage love and parental disapproval, Romeo and Juliet.
Better study.
Jesse Skeen
Trudi Marrapodi (www...@frontiernet.net) wrote:
The teacher gets an automatic F because the father did NOT go to Joey's
house, Joey was stupid and went to him! Hence the lyrics, "Got in my car
and drove like mad til I got to Julie's place." Should have brought his
own gun, or at least run him over!
db
db writes:
Wow! The "Cliff Notes" on the song are more profound than the actual
song itself! ;^)
Those darn `74-`75 story songs (i.e. "Billy Don't Be A Hero", "The Night
Chicago Died", "Judy Mae", etc.) -- life and death in 3:15!
--db
Trudi Marrapodi
> Trudi Marrapodi (www...@frontiernet.net) wrote:
> : OK, class, I thought we already covered this, but here are your Cliff
> : Notes (tm) on "Run Joey Run":
[partially snipped]
>
> : 5. Dad gets to Joey's house, daughter running after him. In the climax (so
> : to speak) of the song, Joey's girlfriend throws herself in front of her
> : father's gun and takes the bullet for Joey.
[more snipped]
> : End of lesson.
> : There will be a test Tuesday. And I will expect complete bluebook essays
> : comparing and contrasting the plot of "Run Joey Run" to that of the other
> : great tragedy of teenage love and parental disapproval, Romeo and Juliet.
> : Better study.
>
> The teacher gets an automatic F because the father did NOT go to Joey's
> house, Joey was stupid and went to him! Hence the lyrics, "Got in my car
> and drove like mad til I got to Julie's place." Should have brought his
> own gun, or at least run him over!
Omigod! You are absolutely right! Which just goes to show you, it's been a
while since I've been cursed with this song on MY oldies station...Can you
ever forgive me? By, like, raising my grade to a C if I do extra-credit
work? Such as "The Historical Inaccuracies Present in the Lyrics of 'The
Night Chicago Died'?"
I could do that, you know. Bob Greene, the newspaper columnist, even wrote
a column on this once--how the cops were in Al Capone's back pocket in
Chicago and they never would have had to fight with each other, etc., and
how the whole song was just a melodramatic British fantasy about American
gangsters in the '30s. I could cite the column in my paper. Oh pleeeez
don't dump me from the faculty of the Kollege of Bad Musical Knowledge!
(And, of course, the real question is, who is dumber...me, or JOEY for
running over to Julie's house? "Here, Mr. Julie's Father! I painted a
target over my heart and everything!")
Steve Ellis
In article <324260...@xroads.com> db <tun...@xroads.com> writes:
>Jesse Skeen wrote:
>>
>> Trudi Marrapodi (www...@frontiernet.net) wrote:
>> : In article <51dp28$m...@news.swsbbs.com>, tr...@swsmail.atlanta.com. wrote:
>>
>> : > fr...@pclink.com wrote:
>> : >
>> : >
>> : > >>> >BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS
>> : > >>> >and RUN JOEY RUN
>> : > >>> >Does anyone remember these???
>> : > >>> >or is it all just an illusion..L
>> : >
>> : > >>I never really liked RUN JOEY RUN, even after I learned what the song
>> : > >>was actually about. Thank God the local oldies station doesn't have it
>> : > >>on its playlist.
>> : >
>> : > What is RUN JOEY RUN actually about? I always wondered too!
>> : >
>> : > Trish
>>
>> : OK, class, I thought we already covered this, but here are your Cliff
>> : Notes (tm) on "Run Joey Run":
>>
>> : 1. Joey had a girlfriend.
>>
>> : 2. Joey knocked up said girlfriend, or, as Bruce Springsteen would put it,
>> : "Joey said he'd pull out/Joey stayed in."
>>
>> : 3. When Joey's girlfriend's dad found out, he grabbed a gun and went
>> : looking for Joey--but he didn't have a wedding on his mind; rather, a
>> : funeral.
>>
>> : 4. In the song, Joey's girlfriend calls him to warn him of this (hence the
>> : song title), then heads over to his house to try to prevent the
>> : inevitable.
>>
>> : 5. Dad gets to Joey's house, daughter running after him. In the climax (so
>> : to speak) of the song, Joey's girlfriend throws herself in front of her
>> : father's gun and takes the bullet for Joey.
>>
>> : 6. With her dying breath, she repeats the chorus one last time:
>>
>> : "Daddy please don't,
>> : It wasn't his fault,
>> : He means so much to me.
>> : Daddy please don't.
>> : We're gonna get...mar-ried..."
>>
>> : End of lesson.
>> : There will be a test Tuesday. And I will expect complete bluebook essays
>> : comparing and contrasting the plot of "Run Joey Run" to that of the other
>> : great tragedy of teenage love and parental disapproval, Romeo and Juliet.
>> : Better study.
>>
>> The teacher gets an automatic F because the father did NOT go to Joey's
>> house, Joey was stupid and went to him! Hence the lyrics, "Got in my car
>> and drove like mad til I got to Julie's place." Should have brought his
>> own gun, or at least run him over!
>db writes:
>Wow! The "Cliff Notes" on the song are more profound than the actual
>song itself! ;^)
>Those darn `74-`75 story songs (i.e. "Billy Don't Be A Hero", "The Night
>Chicago Died", "Judy Mae", etc.) -- life and death in 3:15!
>--db
Judy Mae? I don't remember this one at all. Maggie's younger sister, maybe?
Chris Herzog
Trudi Marrapodi wrote:
>
> 4. In the song, Joey's girlfriend calls him to warn him of this (hence the
> song title), then heads over to his house to try to prevent the
> inevitable.
>
> 5. Dad gets to Joey's house, daughter running after him. In the climax (so
> to speak) of the song, Joey's girlfriend throws herself in front of her
> father's gun and takes the bullet for Joey.
>
Please modify the above: Joey goes to Julie's place and the fateful
confrontation
occurs THERE. I quote:
I got in my car
And I drove like mad
Till I reached Julie's pla-ace!
She ran to me
With tear-filled eyes
And bruises on her fa-ace!
All at once I saw him there,
(voice filled with malice & venom)
Creepin' up behind me....
I can't go on, the rest is silence. I paid 10$ for a CD because it had
this
song on it. Sometimes I play it in my car, pretending *I'm* Joey,
desparately
trying to get to my Julie....
"Watch Out!"
--
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To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kinda scary.
I've wondered where this started, and I think it goes back to
the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my dad.
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Chris Herzog
che...@ldd.net
db
Steve Ellis wrote:
>
> In article <324260...@xroads.com> db <tun...@xroads.com> writes:
>
> >Jesse Skeen wrote:
> >>
> >> Trudi Marrapodi (www...@frontiernet.net) wrote:
> >> : In article <51dp28$m...@news.swsbbs.com>, tr...@swsmail.atlanta.com. wrote:
> >>
> >> : > fr...@pclink.com wrote:
> >> : >
> >> : >
> >> : > >>> >BLIND MAN IN THE BLEACHERS
> >> : > >>> >and RUN JOEY RUN
> >> : > >>> >Does anyone remember these???
> >> : > >>> >or is it all just an illusion..L
> >> : >
> >> : > >>I never really liked RUN JOEY RUN, even after I learned what the song
> >> : > >>was actually about. Thank God the local oldies station doesn't have it
> >> : > >>on its playlist.
> >> : >
> >> : > What is RUN JOEY RUN actually about? I always wondered too!
> >> : >
> >> : > Trish
> >>
> >> : OK, class, I thought we already covered this, but here are your Cliff
> >> : Notes (tm) on "Run Joey Run":
> >>
> >> : 1. Joey had a girlfriend.
> >>
> >> : 2. Joey knocked up said girlfriend, or, as Bruce Springsteen would put it,
> >> : "Joey said he'd pull out/Joey stayed in."
> >>
> >> : 3. When Joey's girlfriend's dad found out, he grabbed a gun and went
> >> : looking for Joey--but he didn't have a wedding on his mind; rather, a
> >> : funeral.
> >>
> >> : song title), then heads over to his house to try to prevent the
> >> : inevitable.
> >>
> >> : 5. Dad gets to Joey's house, daughter running after him. In the climax (so
> >> : to speak) of the song, Joey's girlfriend throws herself in front of her
> >> : father's gun and takes the bullet for Joey.
> >>
> >>
> >> : "Daddy please don't,
> >> : It wasn't his fault,
> >> : He means so much to me.
> >> : Daddy please don't.
> >> : We're gonna get...mar-ried..."
> >>
> >> : End of lesson.
> >> : There will be a test Tuesday. And I will expect complete bluebook essays
> >> : comparing and contrasting the plot of "Run Joey Run" to that of the other
> >> : great tragedy of teenage love and parental disapproval, Romeo and Juliet.
> >> : Better study.
> >>
> >> The teacher gets an automatic F because the father did NOT go to Joey's
> >> house, Joey was stupid and went to him! Hence the lyrics, "Got in my car
> >> and drove like mad til I got to Julie's place." Should have brought his
> >> own gun, or at least run him over!
>
> >db writes:
> >Wow! The "Cliff Notes" on the song are more profound than the actual
> >song itself! ;^)
>
> >Those darn `74-`75 story songs (i.e. "Billy Don't Be A Hero", "The Night
> >Chicago Died", "Judy Mae", etc.) -- life and death in 3:15!
> >--db
>
> Judy Mae? I don't remember this one at all. Maggie's younger sister, maybe?
db writes:
"Judy Mae" was by a guy named Boomer Castleman, who used to be in The
Lewis & Clarke Expedition with Michael Murphey ("Wildfire"). It is on
one of the "Have a Nice Day" volumes from Rhino. The song came out on my
9th B-day (5/75), and it took me 20 years to hear it again. To this day,
I don't know if it should be underrated or underGROUND! ;^)
--db
Brian
>
> I could do that, you know. Bob Greene, the newspaper columnist, even wrote
> a column on this once--how the cops were in Al Capone's back pocket in
> Chicago and they never would have had to fight with each other, etc., and
> how the whole song was just a melodramatic British fantasy about American
> gangsters in the '30s.
Not to mention the fact that in 1974 or so, the "East side of Chicago" was
Lake Michigan. Since then, a bunch of stuff has been built on old railroad
right-of-way on the "east" side, which is about 4 blocks wide.
Brian
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the desert when the drugs began to take hold.²
Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Risser .
Speaking of life, death and the hereafter in seventies
songs, what about "Rocky" or whatever the name of it was. It was a "Run,
Joey Run" contemporary and the annoying refrain was:
"Rocky, I never had to (have a baby, die, various other
things) before,
Dont know if I can do it!
Blah blah blah, take my hand, and see me through it..
I said baby, whoa sweet baby,
It's love that sets us free!
And I told you when the world would end( hence the never
had to die before part) your love was safe with me!
Looked up a song named "Rocky" by Austin Roberts in my
Top 40 Hits book by Joel Whitburn and it says it was out in Sept. 1975. Run
Joey Run (Davis Geddes, king of the teen angel songs!) was April 1975. 21
years ago. Yep, I am feelin' old NOW...
BTW, this is an awe - inspiring news group. Glad I found
it.
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"..Lonely and dreaming of the west coast.."- Everclear
Risser
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Steve Ellis
AARGH! Just when you think it's safe to go back in the newsgroup, another fin
breaks the surface!
This brings up two thoughts and a tangent:
Is anybody keeping a list of these turkeys as they're brought up?
Have we mentioned the Jeans Song ("I put my blue jeans on, I put
my old blue jeans on")?
and
Remember the commercials for Levi's Asterisk jeans?
Steve
Trudi Marrapodi
In article <52obu6$m...@news2.h1.usa.pipeline.com>,
fictio...@pipeline.com(Risser .) wrote:
> Speaking of life, death and the hereafter in seventies
> songs, what about "Rocky" or whatever the name of it was. It was a "Run,
> Joey Run" contemporary and the annoying refrain was:
> "Rocky, I never had to (have a baby, die, various other
> things) before,
> Dont know if I can do it!
> Blah blah blah, take my hand, and see me through it..
> I said baby, whoa sweet baby,
> It's love that sets us free!
> And I told you when the world would end( hence the never
> had to die before part) your love was safe with me!
> Looked up a song named "Rocky" by Austin Roberts in my
> Top 40 Hits book by Joel Whitburn and it says it was out in Sept. 1975. Run
> Joey Run (Davis Geddes, king of the teen angel songs!) was April 1975. 21
> years ago. Yep, I am feelin' old NOW...
> BTW, this is an awe - inspiring news group. Glad I found
> it.
Oh, yes. "Rocky" (not to be confused with the boxer; actually *this* Rocky
predated the boxer) was, as I see it, sort of one of those songs that
capitalized on the popularity of tear-jerking movies like "Love Story" and
"Sunshine" that featured a beautiful woman dying young of a terrible
disease. I'll try to make the Cliffs Notes (tm) on this one more accurate
than last time when I deconstructed the plot of "Run Joey Run":
1. Boy is "alone until my 18th year" and then meets girl (never named).
Boy falls in love with girl. She tells him "Rocky, I've never been in love
before, don't know if I can do it," etc.
2. Boy and girl move into a big old house and fix it up nights while they
take classes during the day, sleeping on the floor. (Appropriately enough
for the frewheeling '70s, no wedding is mentioned.) Girl gets
pregnant--"Rocky, I've never had a baby before, don't know if I can do
it..."
3. Boy and girl have baby and are completely happy "until the day they
told me that she didn't have long to live" (you're given to understand
"she" refers to the girl, not the baby). "Rocky, I never had to die
before, don't know if I can do it..."
4. Jump ahead to young man and his daughter alone, "who looks so much like
her sweet mother sometimes it makes me cry." Life is hard for them
sometimes, but whenever he feels like giving in, he hears "her" voice
again, telling him "Rocky, you know you've been alone before, you know
that you can do it.."
Conclusion: Rocky is really pretty lucky--a young stud like him single and
free, and a widower with an adorable child at that. He is major chick bait
for sure. Don't cry for him. As for the "she" he loved so much--boy, did
she have low self-esteem or what? ;-)
Risser .
As long as we are on awful songs.....
"Hey baby, I'm your telephone man,
If your show me where you want it then I'll put it
where I can! <snip>
You can have it with a buzz, you can have it
with a ring,
And if you get my number right, you'll get a
ding - a - ling!"
NONE of us a Douglas Byrd Jr High could believe
they played this on the radio!
BTW, my Billboard books says "Should Have Been Me" was by
Gladys Knight and was from 1968. ( ? ) Different "disco" version in 1977
maybe?
Ob. more 70s: Went to a store yesterday and right up front,
where they put their hot sellers, was this silky Quiana (sp?) polyester
shirt with a collar so wide you could land aircraft on it. *SIGH*.....at
least it was swirly colors and not scenes of the Bicentennial or water
wheels and mills or leaves like guys wore to "dress up" in my salad
days..... I call it "CHiPs era- guy dress up clothes".
Risser .
On Sep 30, 1996 08:16:41 in article <Re: awful songs>, 'l...@neosoft.com
(Steve Ellis)' wrote:
>Remember the commercials for Levi's Asterisk jeans?
hear the little voice in the background going "Stitch, stitch,
stitch.." is it? I remember the "We put a little blue jeans in everything
we make ("Good, Bad and The Ugly" ooo ooo ooo sound) Lee-ee-vis!" (sound
again). Levis used to have some very
cutting edge animation in their commercials. People flying through
space a la Peter Maxx ( like the Seven Up commercials?) GOD I wish I had
video tapes of all those old commercials! Not just these tired old ones
like you keep seeing on the retro shows (like the Great American Soups
one!) But * really* bad ones, Like Donnie and Marie singing "We're gonna go
Hawaiian!!!" etc.
Livin' in dah past.....
Risser .
On Sep 30, 1996 16:05:02 in article <Re: awful songs>,
'www...@frontiernet.net (Trudi Marrapodi)' wrote:
>Conclusion: Rocky is really pretty lucky--a young stud like him single and
>free, and a widower with an adorable child at that. He is major chick bait
>for sure. Don't cry for him. As for the "she" he loved so much--boy, did
>she have low self-esteem or what? ;-)
>
>Trudi
Trudi, your memory of the lyrics of this old song are truly
impressive. I bow to you. Kinda makes one think a little about "The
Courtship Of Eddie Father," dunnit? Oh, Mr Eddies' Father....
Poor old Wah-Wah songs. I guess they just got buried in 1975
under the ponderous weight of such Timeless Classics as
Fly, Robin, Fly and Bad Blood.
All this just makes me wanna dig out my tan buffalo
sandals with the three inch wedgie stacks and go to the skating rink. NOW I
am telling my age...are we ALL in our 30's on this bus, to paraphrase
Firesign Theater?
Lovin' it !!!!!!
Steve Ellis
fictio...@pipeline.com (Risser .) wrote:
>>Remember the commercials for Levi's Asterisk jeans?
> That's not the old radio commercial where you could hear the little
> voice in the background going "Stitch, stitch, stitch.." is it? I remember
> the "We put a little blue jeans in everything we make ("Good, Bad and The
> Ugly" (ooo ooo ooo sound) Lee-ee-vis!" (sound again). Levis used to have
> some very cutting edge animation in their commercials. People flying through
> space a la Peter Maxx ( like the Seven Up commercials?) GOD I wish I had
> video tapes of all those old commercials! Not just these tired old ones like
> you keep seeing on the retro shows (like the Great American Soups one!) But
> *really* bad ones, Like Donnie & Marie singing "We're gonna go Hawaiian!!!",
> etc.
> Livin' in dah past.....
>
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>
> "..Lonely and dreaming of the west coast.."- Everclear
> Risser
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No, those were the radio spots full of one-liners implying that that the jeans
needed to be applied with a sprayer ("Hey Cheryl, can I borrow that dime in
your front pocket?") and the proper pronunciation of "asterisk" at the end
of the commercial was with a noticable pause between each syllable. Wish I
remembered more of 'em.
Steve
ma...@combase.com
l...@neosoft.com (Steve Ellis) wrote:
>fictio...@pipeline.com (Risser .) wrote:
>
>>>Remember the commercials for Levi's Asterisk jeans?
>> That's not the old radio commercial where you could hear the little
>> voice in the background going "Stitch, stitch, stitch.." is it? I remember
>> the "We put a little blue jeans in everything we make ("Good, Bad and The
>> Ugly" (ooo ooo ooo sound) Lee-ee-vis!" (sound again). Levis used to have
>> some very cutting edge animation in their commercials. People flying through
>> space a la Peter Maxx ( like the Seven Up commercials?) GOD I wish I had
>> video tapes of all those old commercials! Not just these tired old ones like
>> you keep seeing on the retro shows (like the Great American Soups one!) But
>> *really* bad ones, Like Donnie & Marie singing "We're gonna go Hawaiian!!!",
>> etc.
>> Livin' in dah past.....
>>
>>-
Speaking of Levi's. My brother and I (which proves I was not
hallucinating alone) Remember a Levi's commercial that I have not met
one person who remembers it!
I can only remember they sang Lee-E-E-E-vi's HAW HAW!
In a very country kind of hill billy way. No other way to describe
it.
It was very odd, tell me, is it faulty genes (grin) or does anyone
else remember this?
Lisa or |Maya|
but both are me.
Risser .
On Oct 03, 1996 21:58:23 in article <Re: Levis (was re: awful songs)>, Yeah, we wear talking about that earlier. It was like "I'm
wearin my Lee-hee-hee-hee-hee-viiis!"
Rest well. It was a real commercial!! :-)
--
K Dusik
In article <531heh$h...@news2.h1.usa.pipeline.com>,
fictio...@pipeline.com(Risser .) wrote:
> On Oct 03, 1996 21:58:23 in article <Re: Levis (was re: awful songs)>,
> 'ma...@combase.com' wrote:
>
>
> >I can only remember they sang Lee-E-E-E-vi's
> Yeah, we wear talking about that earlier. It was like "I'm
> wearin my Lee-hee-hee-hee-hee-viiis!"
> Rest well. It was a real commercial!! :-)
Didn't they use stop-action filming of some sort for this? Also, do you
remember the gasoline commercial (also stop-action) that had people in
"invisible" cars, where the driver and passengers moved along the road
with not visible means of support? I think it might have been for Gulf or
Shell?
K
--
"With an eye like an eagle, and as tall as a mountain was he!"
Chris Herzog
ma...@combase.com wrote:
>
> Speaking of Levi's. My brother and I (which proves I was not
> hallucinating alone) Remember a Levi's commercial that I have not met
> one person who remembers it!
>
> I can only remember they sang Lee-E-E-E-vi's HAW HAW!
> In a very country kind of hill billy way. No other way to describe
> it.
>
> It was very odd, tell me, is it faulty genes (grin) or does anyone
> else remember this?
>
I'm not sure if this is what you're thinking of, but the Jefferson
Airplane compilation package "2400 Fulton Street" has a Levi's radio
commercial from 1970 or so which features Grace Slick singing
"Lee--EE--ee-vi's" in sort of a buddhist mantra kind of way as sitar
music, etc plays behind her. The commercial is for White Levi's as I
recall. Isn't that charming? A year and half earlier, these folks were
putting out songs advocating armed revolution and executing corporate
fatcats and politicians "up against the wall". Then they're doing
commercials. Gotta love the 70s.
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or request in more than five newsgroups or does
not use a fully descriptive header. Neither
should you.
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Chris Herzog
che...@ldd.net
Paula Steger
>I can only remember they sang Lee-E-E-E-vi's HAW HAW!
>In a very country kind of hill billy way. No other way to describe
>it.
Yeah, and the commercial had people that were filmed with stop-action
photography. They filmed it so that the people looked like they
were gliding down the street without moving their legs. I think that
the commercial aired sometime between 1971-1973.
Paula