Here’s two…
“No amount of coke could make me feel the way that you do”
(Temptations-- Get Ready) and
“Please, go–ooh away” (Raspberries’–Go All the Way)
We all know about " 'Scuse me while I kiss this guy"
Camp songs are always good ones.
“There’s a bathroom on the right.” instead of “There’s a bad moon on the rise” in the famous Creedence Clearwater Revival song is one I’ll never forget.
There’s a song about that. And no, it’s not great. But it was in the top charts in Germany for 10 weeks. We have terrible taste in music, and I won’t torture you by posting
Let’s qualify that: you are referring to modern music. Remember, it’s Germany that gave us Beethoven!
Well, yeah. And Schumann (Robert & Clara), Bach, Brahms, Händl, Mendelssohn, Pachelbel, Offenbach, Telemann…
But most of what happened after the 60s was garbage — outside of NDW, of course, the soundtrack of my yout’
My cousin always thought that Johnny Tillotson’s “Poetry in Motion” was “Oh, a tree in motion.”
A hilarious one from a favorite comedian of mine, the late, great Rodney Dangerfield:
“I tell ya, life isn’t easy. Today’s been a terrible day. I got up this morning, picked up my shirt, a button fell off. Picked up my briefcase, the handle fell off. I’m afraid to go to the bathroom.”
(I hope that the above wasn’t too risqué for this site. But at least the reader has to use their brain just a bit to “get” the punchline.)
Not for me, but as a recovering open mike comedian, I write and forget at least 10 dick jokes in my head before my fifth sip of coffee. I’m deeply broken.
Well that’s a fascinating and intriguing tidbit about you!
I contain multitudes. Mostly reinforced with scotch.
Sounds like you need to start a new thread.