music

Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer was one of my favorite songs as a kid. The part where it says: "then how the reindeer loved him" was my favorite part. It took me years to figure out "then how" wasn't the name of a reindeer. My girlfriend still teases me about it to this day.

Well, I COULDN'T BELIEVE that the Beatles were from another country. It seemed so odd that another country existed. And then I found out that my favorite band did DRUGS! Didn't they have D.A.R.E. But I kept on listening and my world expanded

my girlfriend and i had jsut watched a James Bond movie, and she started to sing "secret-- agent man, secret--agent maaan....." only problem was, she thought the words were "secret Asian man"....

I think I must've been about 7 or 8 when my Mom told me that pop stars were regular people. To this day, I still laugh whenever I conjure up images of pop stars waking up in the morning saying, "hey, we need groceries!"

My Mom use to try to keep is from having the radio on before school and she would say, "Sing before seven cry before eleven". We use to like to sing along with the radio and she really just wanted us to be quiet.

I used to believe that Brian May of Queen was the presenter of "Magpie" (he wasn't - it was lookey-likey Mick Robertson).

I also used to believe that the voice from inside the radio was a person actually in there and I remember trying to squint through the lit-up dial and see them. (It was a big radio, OK?!)

When I was little and records were still popular, I thought that the singers singing the songs were singing live right at that moment and that if I kept playing either a particular song, or the whole record over and over, that eventually they'd get tired of singing the same songs over and over and over and would eventually yell at me to "pick another song or artist or album". LOL.

When I was around seven years old, Queen came out with "Bohemian Rhapsody." I figured out that it was about a murderer condemned to die. I asked my mother how they would kill him. She told me that they would put him in a large box and close the lid, and he would proceed to suffocate and die. To this day, when I hear the gong struck at the end of the song, I picture two flaps closing on a really big cardboard box.

I used to believe…

the national anthem:

"o say can you see, by the donzerly light..."

so i figured donzerly light was like a nightlight, or a flashlight or anything that helps you see in the dark and then i would ask whoever was there "o say can you see?"

I have only found out last week from my boss in work that spinal tap was never a band it was a spoof film. So it just shows that at 36 years of age we can still be fooled with things " i used to believe " not just children..

Back in the late 80s, my wife loved that song that goes "Tonight I need your sweet caress, hold me in the darkness." That is, she loved it until she heard me mangle the lyrics - "hold me in your armpit". She never could listen to the song again, and never would forgive me for ruining it for her.

I was born in 1960 and I believed my father was Elvis Presley (he was thin with black hair and he was cool), one day I heard Elvis on the radio and said "there you are" and after some explaining on what I meant, everyone laughed at me and my feelings were hurt but my dad is still cool.

Trapped in a van once with seven other people Prince's "Little Red Corvette" came on the radio. We all began to sing along and when we got to the chorus a friend of ours at the top of her lungs belted out "LEAD THE WAY CARMAY!!!" She's never lived it down...we named her cat Carmay in her honor.

My boyfriend and I go round and round about REM's "The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight"...i think the lyric is "don't even try to wake him up" and he thinks it's "calling Jamaica"...neither of us knows the answer because REM doesn't publish lyrics...

In the old Jerry Reed song "Amos Moses" there's a line, "about 45 minutes southeast of Thibidaux Looziana..." For about 10 years I thought they were saying "Tippy Toe". I figured it out after I moved to New Orleans in my mid-20's.

For nearly 40 years I thought the 1st 2 lines to "Love Potion #9" were "I took my troubles down to Madam Roux; You know that Gypsy with the gold tatoo". Yesterday I found out it's "Madam Ruth" and "gold-capped tooth".

I always thought that in the song "Blinded by the Light" the lyrics were "..wrecked up like a DOUCHE you know the roller in the night" It was only a couple of years ago that I learned it was wrecked up like a DUCE (meaning a type of car)

When I was younger my dad told me that you had to like The Beatles to be an american (even though I knew they were not american). For a long time I thought it was the law to like The Beatles. I was even nicknamed (and I'm still called) Abbey- after the Abbey Road album!