Name that tune - Rock on!

sweet home alabama


another one:
She had a west coast strut

"Cheap Sunglasses" -- ZZ Top

Here you go...

"And I've got one more silver dollar..."

Midnight Rider by the wonderful Bob Seager..

and he was looking for you know who!!!

Gimme Three Steps by Skynard....


Gonna catch a freight train...

Can't you see-- Marshall Tucker

Oh don't go out tonight...

There's a Bathroom on the right. Tee hee.

"Bad Moon on the Rise CCR"

I never could understand how she talked like a woman and walked like a man

"Lola" by Kinks - funny song, btw

Love this one:

"Well, I'm taking my time..."

Boston - Long time

(Pssst...Earlier I was thinking of the Allman Brothers' Midnight Rider. But I'll take Seger, too... )

Here's another one that's a bit more funky...

"Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip..."

Boston, "Long Time"

This one is a harder one (I think)

"Remember me to one who lives there..."

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Originally posted by Phoenix Rising:
Boston, "Long Time"

This one is a harder one (I think)

"Remember me to one who lives there..."

Nah. Not if you're into Simon & Garfunkel!

Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme,
Remember me to one who lives there.
She once was a true love of mine....

That would be Scarborough Fair.

See above for the last one I threw out. If nobody gets it, I'll try another one.

Okay, well, the earlier line is still up for grabs, but here's another one...

"It was twenty years ago today..."

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Originally posted by e:
Okay, well, the earlier line is still up for grabs, but here's another one...

"It was twenty years ago today..."

"Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play"

Beatles "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"

Appropriately enough, the Sgt. Pepper's album was released fourty years ago today!

quote:

Here's another one that's a bit more funky...

"Put a glide in your stride and a dip in your hip..."

Gotta love George and Bootsy: Parliament (or Funkadelic, not sure which incarnation) - Mothership (Starchild)

Next funky one - "you done hurt my hip once"

quote:

Originally posted by jagorham:
Appropriately enough, the Sgt. Pepper's album was released fourty years ago today!

Yep. Released June 1, 1967.

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Originally posted by e:

quote:

Originally posted by jagorham:
Appropriately enough, the Sgt. Pepper's album was released fourty years ago today!

Yep. Released June 1, 1967.

Cool. I'll have to tell my husband that. He loves the Beatles - who doesn't, right? Anybody know this one?........

"The twenty-first century's yesterday..."

"Whatcha gonna do?
Gonna live my life..."

"Need You Tonight" - INXS

Here's another...

"I always said your people were just like my kin..."

"Baby Ruth."
My favorite version was recorded by Delbert McClinton in our neck of the woods.

Here's one --
"I found some hid out giftwrapped alligator shoes."

quote:

Originally posted by tdreader:
Here's one --
"I found some hid out giftwrapped alligator shoes."

Second line.
"You said they supponsed to be a surprise."

Ahhh! tdreader, give us another line, or maybe two? I even cheated & searched for it...can't find it.

I will just tell you so the game can go on.

"Solid Gold Plated Fool", one of the best songs you never heard. It was on Delbert McClinton's Honky Tonkin' album, and Joe El Sonier also recorded it.

I think you guys are getting the "country" name that tune thread mixed up with the "rock" name that tune thread...my bad for calling it something similar. No prob, it's all good. This is a 80s rock song:

"You've been hiding, never letting it show..."

Joy,

Delbert's actually quite a rocker, despite the album title.

-e-

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Originally posted by e:
Joy,

Delbert's actually quite a rocker, despite the album title.

-e-

OHH! My bad!

quote:

Originally posted by _Joy_:
I think you guys are getting the "country" name that tune thread mixed up with the "rock" name that tune thread...my bad for calling it something similar. No prob, it's all good. This is a 80s rock song:

"You've been hiding, never letting it show..."

One more line:
"Always trying to keep it under control"

I think it's Heart, but I'm not positive and can't remember a title....

quote:

Originally posted by e:
I think it's Heart, but I'm not positive and can't remember a title....

DING DING DING...that is correct! The name of the song is "What About Love".

"Johnny was a schoolboy when he heard his first beatles song." ???

Shooting star is the name of the song I'm wrangling with the name of the group?

Shooting Star by Bad Company.
new song-

"In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings"

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Originally posted by unclegus:
Shooting Star by Bad Company.
new song-

"In a tree by the brook, there's a songbird who sings"

Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven"

New Song (now say it in true Southern style ) :

"If I leave here tomorrow..."

Freebird- Lynyrd Skynyrd

New song
"went up to the mountain, to see what I could see",

quote:

went up to the mountain, to see what I could see

Molly Hatchet Dreams I'll Never See



Things will be like we always knew they could be

"Kathy's Clown"

Here's one:

"Don't run back inside.
Darling you know just what I'm here for."

quote:

Originally posted by notdmbazdrt:
Here's one:

"Don't run back inside.
Darling you know just what I'm here for."

The Boss (Springsteen) "Thunder Road"

Here's another:

"I guess you will know the tune..." ?

CCR - "Lodi"

Now playing:

"I want to rock your gypsy soul"??

vAN mORRISON, iNTO THE mYSTIC

New Song: Tough One:
"Well I missed you Honey, A little more everyday"

You people have great taste in music! When I read a post the song starts playing in my head.

quote:

Originally posted by MentalFloss:
vAN mORRISON, iNTO THE mYSTIC

New Song: Tough One:
"Well I missed you Honey, A little more everyday"

"Fool For You" -- Foreigner

(FYI, I have limited knowledge of Journey and Foreigner, all of which is due to Chris Q.)

Here are two, by different artists, because the second one is pretty obscure. Actually, I guess the first one might also be considered obscure by some.

1.) "If I could hold you just one time..."

2.) But it ain't what you do, it's the way how it's done."

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(FYI, I have limited knowledge of Journey and Foreigner, all of which is due to Chris Q.)

Chris and I used to play that song in a cover band at the Bridge Resterant .

e, I think you've stumped us.

I'm going to add one...been in my head today:

"Some dance to remember, some dance to forget..."

Okay, the first song that popped in my head was "Safety Dance". Remember that one? Except, I only recently learned that that song is not about dancing at all!!! My little brother informed me it is about something entirely different.

Then I realized it's "Hotel California"

These lyrics are a little more recent:

"Thirty notes in the mail box, will tell you that I'm coming home"

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Originally posted by _Joy_:
e, I think you've stumped us.

I'm going to add one...been in my head today:

"Some dance to remember, some dance to forget..."

Oops...sorry...

That first one up there is a line from "You Keep Me Hangin' On" by JJ Cale. It was on his Grasshopper album.

The second one is pretty obscure, I'll admit. I've just always liked that line so much that I wanted to throw it out there anyway.

It's from a song called "Mighty Good Time." The song was written by Eddie Hinton and performed by a group called Smith, Perkins, & Smith. If you've ever heard of SPS, I'll be mighty surprised. That one was cut at MSS in the early 70s.

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Originally posted by mandomama:
These lyrics are a little more recent:

"Thirty notes in the mail box, will tell you that I'm coming home"

Recent may answer why I don't recognize them...I really need to update my music selections a little. Another line maybe?

Next few lines:

and I think I'm gonna stick around
for a while so you're not alone

If you can hear a piano fall
you can hear me coming down the hall
if I could just hear your pretty voice
I don't think I need to see at all

Well, you've stumped us mandomama. But here's another to chew on:

"Too late, my time has come..."

Queen! "Bohemian Rhapsody"

If only for the monkey reference, try this one. It's from a semi-obscure song by a very well-known singer. Great song. Here's your line:

"I ain't no monkey but I know what I like."

Bob Dylan "Buckets of Rain" (I can never quite hate to hear this man sing due to his writing ability - it's a love/hate relationship )

Here's another one:

"Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done..."

"House of the Rising Sun" -- The Animals, and Dylan, too.

How about this one, from a song (and album) recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound:

"I had a woman down in Alabama"

That song above is from The White Stripes... Dead Leaves on the Dirty Ground, also covered by Chris Thile and the How to Grow a Woman from the Ground Up Band. Both incredible bands!!

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Originally posted by e:
"Cheap Sunglasses" -- ZZ Top

Here you go...

"And I've got one more silver dollar..."

I thought that was an Allman Bros. song... ??

It's a 2-fer:

1. "We are all just prisoners here, of our own device"

2. "Take your protein pills and put your helmet on..."

Peace,

You got it. (The "Cheap Sunglasses" reference was my answer to another poster's line; sorry I didn't include it there for clarity.)

The "silver dollar" line was my own question. ABB. Which song?

The answers to yours:

1.) "Hotel California" - the Eagles

2.) "Space Oddity"!!! - Bowie. That's a song that some people might tell you I may have listened to one too many times back in the day.

"Movie stars are cruisin' on Woodward Avenue..."

Does anyone know if that was written about our Woodward or the one in Detroit?

FV, you may have stumped us again...

Here's a new one...

"She's gone too far,
She's lost the sun"

She's Come Undone - Guess Who

This one's easy:
"She blew my nose and then she blew my mind"

Honky Tonk Woman - Rolling Stones

Here's a fun one maybe:

"I ain't gonna do you wrong while you're gone..."

Respect - Aretha Franklin

How about this one:
"Take the sheet off your face boy
It's a brand new day"

"Respect Yourself" - Staples Singers

Here's another, similar to the last one in one way.

"You know I can't let you slide through my hands."

quote:

Originally posted by FirenzeVeritas:
"Movie stars are cruisin' on Woodward Avenue..."

Does anyone know if that was written about our Woodward or the one in Detroit?

Horizontal Bop by Bob Segar. I'd still like to know which Woodward...

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Originally posted by e:
Here's another, similar to the last one in one way.

"You know I can't let you slide through my hands."

WILD HORSES-ROLLING STONES

"MY SHAVING RAZOR'S COLD, AND IT STINGS..."

"Daydream Believer"

Here's another:

"I want you to know I believe in your song"

Dobie Gray - (and most recently Uncle Cracker)

"Drift Away"

Okay, here's a new one:

"See the kids just getting out of school,
They can't wait to hang out and be cool."

quote:

Originally posted by mandomama:
Okay, here's a new one:

"See the kids just getting out of school,
They can't wait to hang out and be cool."

"We Got the Beat" by the Go Gos.

New one: "Hearts of fire,
Streets of stone,
Modern warriors,
Saddle iron horses of chrome."

POISON-RIDE THE WIND

"THEY STAB IT WITH THEIR STEELY KNIVES, BUT THEY JUST CAN'T KILL THE BEAST"

Hotel California by the Eagles--think some of them also wrote it.

"That's me in the corner, that's me in the spotlight."

REM - "Losing My Religion"

Well, I'll do one.
"Baby, I get so scared at times
and I don't really understand,
Is it love that's on my mind or
is it fantasy?"

Something by Lita Ford?

quote:

Originally posted by FirenzeVeritas:
Something by Lita Ford?

Close My Eyes Forever Lita Ford/Ozzy Osborne

"did you exchange a walkon part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"

quote:

Originally posted by imax71:

"did you exchange a walkon part in the war for a lead role in a cage?"

"Wish You Were Here" - Pink Floyd

and on that note,

"Just nod if you can hear me..."??

"Comfortably Numb"- Pink Floyd

"one life with each other, sisters, brothers."

"One" - U2 (Achtung Baby)

Here's one:

"God it's good to be here walkin' together my friend" ??

quote:

God it's good to be here walkin' together my friend

something by stevie ray vaughn?

yep...which one?

quote:

Originally posted by e:
yep...which one?

The Sky is Cryin....album
But I can't remember the name of the song. Is it "a Drop of Life" or something like that?


An easy one: "you cross a lawyer with the godfather , baby... he'll make you an offer you can't understand"

Midknightrider: Yes, close. It's "Life by the Drop."

quote:

you cross a lawyer with the godfather , baby... he'll make you an offer you can't understand

Don Henley-Gimme What You Got

quote:

Originally posted by MAVENK:

quote:

you cross a lawyer with the godfather , baby... he'll make you an offer you can't understand

Don Henley-Gimme What You Got

Correct!!!

Here's one:

"I play my music in the sun"

?

quote:

I play my music in the sun

Steve Miller-The Joker, GREAT SONG!!!

Here's one for ya..

Left alone with big fat Fanny
She was such a naughty nanny...

Fat Bottom Girls by............ Queen?

yea...

Here's another:

"Try to build your life with your hands..." ???

quote:

Try to build your life with your hands

Keep On Smilin'!

In honor of the day....

"You might not be looking for the promised land,
but you might find it anyway"

Nobody got this yet?

"You might not be looking for the promised land,
but you might find it anyway
Under one of those old familiar names
Like New Orleans (New Orleans)
Detroit City (Detroit City), Dallas (Dallas)
Pittsburg P.A. (Pittsburg P.A.),
New York City (New York City)
Kansas City (Kansas City),
Atlanta (Atlanta), Chicago and L.A."

"LIVING IN AMERICA" by JAMES BROWN

I really hate it when I do that...edit rather than quote. So that you'll know that ones over, I'll post a new one to bring the thread back up...

"sing for the laughter, sing for the tear..."

quote:

Originally posted by _Joy_:
I really hate it when I do that...edit rather than quote. So that you'll know that ones over, I'll post a new one to bring the thread back up...

"sing for the laughter, sing for the tear..."

"Dream On"

Try this: "Many years since I was here, on the street I was passin' my time away,
To the left and to the right, buildings towering
to the sky,
Its outta sight, in the dead of night"

quote:

Originally posted by outspokenjerk:

quote:

Originally posted by _Joy_:
I really hate it when I do that...edit rather than quote. So that you'll know that ones over, I'll post a new one to bring the thread back up...

"sing for the laughter, sing for the tear..."

"Dream On"

Try this: "Many years since I was here, on the street I was passin' my time away,
To the left and to the right, buildings towering
to the sky,
Its outta sight, in the dead of night"

Okay, "New York Groove" by Ace Frehley.

Try this: "Ricky was a young boy,
He had a heart of stone,
Lived nine to five,
And he worked his fingers to the bone
bone." (easy)

"18 and Life" - Skid Row

[Note: If you know me in the 'real' world, please forgive me my musical transgressions of youth.]