music

I used to believe that, when a name appeared on a record, that person was responsible for every sound on it (of course, that would be true for Stevie Wonder, Paul McCartney and Prince, not to mention sometimes Danielle Dax, but I digress...). Unlike Hasil Adkins, however, I did not try and play guitar and drums simultaneously as a result. I think I figured out there had to be some kind of trickery involved (though I still used to wonder how Joni Mitchell managed to sing two lines that overlapped in 'Big Yellow Taxi' - VOCAL overdubs never dawned on me...).

My babysitter told me that my Mom was once a famous singer named "Crystal". He also said her career was really taking off until I came along and ruined her voice by being born.

I lived with that guilt for years. The same guy convinced me that I was Jewish. This went on for years.

This is really my brothers'. When he was younger, he thought the song lyric for "Killing me softly with his song" was really "Killing me softly with insults..killing me softly...with insults...." =)

When Bill Withers sings "Gonna be, gonna be" in the song, "A Lovely Day," I thought he was actually singing "Barnaby."

I remember argueing with my Dad over the lyrics to I Don't Like Mondays by The Boomtown Rats when I was 5. I thought the chorus was "I don't like money".

My uncle (my dad's twin brother) played the piano and had slightly graying hair... once I asked my dad who his friend was, and for a brief while I believed my uncle was Paul McCartney.

When I was about 8 (9 years ago), i used to think on 'stars in their eyes' that the impersonator went through the smoke and then, straight away, the real star would come out and sing.

It didn't even click when 'Elvis' performed.

And, until I was 14, I thought Led Zeppelin was just one person, like Van Morrison.

When I was just starting high school a friend of mine's dad convinced me that the 'Darts' song "Duke of Earl" actually went: Tink, tink, tink tinkerbell, tink,tink..(etc.) It still makes me smile to think of it now.

I used to believe the Herb Alpert song "this guy's in love with you" was "this sky's in love with you" and a a friend of mine thought in Sam Cook's song the part " the coke's are in the icebox" was "the coats are in the icebox"

I used to sing the first stanza of "Oh, Beautiful" like so:
"Oh, Beautiful for spaceship eyes..."

I have no idea how aliens got in there?!

In the song Flashdance, there's a line, 'Take your passion...' My sister and I used to think the line was 'Take your pants off.' At the ages of 10 and 12, we thought it was the dirtiest thing we'd ever heard.

I used to think that in the popular 80s song by Til Tuesday they were saying "Hush, hush, keep it down down, this is scary". Until I started working in radio and learned the song was called "Voices Carry" and it all made sense!

I used to think Stevie Ray Vaughan said "At nights I go shopping" instead of "And that's a cold shot, baby" in the song "Cold Shot". I didn't figure it out until pretty recently, and I'm 27.

My brother used to believe that the part of 'Margaritaville' where Jimmy Buffett sings 'Some people claim that there's a woman to blame' was actually 'some people claim that there's a warm nun to blame'.

I know a lot of people believed this but ... I used to believe the CCR song "Bad Moon on the Rise" was "There's a bathroom on the right." I thought they must have had some kind of traumatic experience to write and sing a song about where the bathroom is.

i used to think the line from the song went "going to the jack-o-lantern" instead of "going to the chapel and we're" gonna get married from the Dixie Cups early 60's song, Chapel of Love.