{"id":3113,"date":"2024-03-07T00:59:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T00:59:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/?p=3113"},"modified":"2024-03-07T01:02:47","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T01:02:47","slug":"from-the-vaults-name-that-tune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.woas-fm.org\/?p=3113","title":{"rendered":"From the Vaults: Name That Tune!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0From time to time, I am asked to reveal a secret;\u00a0 where do ideas for these <\/span>FTV <\/span><\/i>articles come from?\u00a0 There is no simple answer but let me give it a shot:\u00a0 anywhere and everywhere.\u00a0 It isn\u2019t much different than what songwriters say happens when they hear a phrase or musical riff that sticks with them.\u00a0 If it stays with them long enough, one thing leads to another and a song emerges.\u00a0 Things I pick up in conversation, reading, from TV and radio – anything that bounces around in my head long enough can become the kernel of an article.\u00a0 Driving down the highway often allows my brain to ping-pong an idea back and forth enough to see if it has potential.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Case in point, the December 2023 \/ January 2023 issue of <\/span>AARP <\/span><\/i>magazine included a quiz that generated the title of this <\/span>FTV.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>I do not have the luxury of printing the answer key upside down so you will be on your honor not to cheat.\u00a0 I didn\u2019t get all the titles correct in the <\/span>AARP<\/span><\/i> quiz, but I did recall all the tunes that went with the lyrics with the exception of #3.\u00a0 Unlike the <\/span>AARP <\/span><\/i>quiz, I am not going to put photos next to # 1, 6, 8, 17, or 18 . . . those clues were a little too obvious (especially for #1).\u00a0 Time to \u2018fine tune\u2019 your memory:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Well since my baby left me, well I found a new place to dwell \/ Well its down the end of a lonely street . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Deep down in Louisiana close to New Orleans, way back up in the woods among the evergreens \/ There stood a log cabin made of earth & wood, where lived a country boy named. . .<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Oh, when the sun beats down and burns the tar on the roof \/ And your shoes get so hot, you wish your tired feet were fireproof . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Close your eyes and I\u2019ll kiss you \/ Tomorrow I\u2019ll miss you . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. I need love, to ease my mind \/ I need to find, find someone to call mine . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. I bet you\u2019re wonderin\u2019 how I knew \/ \u2018Bout your plans to make me blue . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. How many roads must a man walk down \/ Before they can call him a man? . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. People say I\u2019m the life of the party, \u2018cause I tell a joke or two \/ Although I might be laughing loud and hearty, deep inside I\u2019m blue . . .l<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    9.You know it would be untrue \/ You know that I would be a liar . . .<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. I\u2019m a-gonna raise a fuss, I\u2019m gonna raise a holler \/ About working all summer just a-trying to earn a dollar . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. I keep a close watch on this heart of mine \/ I keep my eyes wide open all the time . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Look at me \/ I\u2019m as helpless as a kitten up a tree . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. And now, the end is here, and so I face the final curtain \/ My friend, I\u2019ll say it clear, I\u2019ll state my case, of which I\u2019m certain . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
    5. Don\u2019t know much about history \/ Don\u2019t know much about biology . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
    6. All the leaves are brown, and the sky is gray \/ I\u2019ve been for a walk, on a winter\u2019s day . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
    7. Well, East Coast girls are hip \/ I really dig those styles they wear . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
    8. Hello darkness, my old friend \/ I\u2019ve come to talk with you again . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
    9. Callin\u2019 out around the world:\u00a0 Are you ready for a brand new beat? \/ Summer\u2019s here and the time is right . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
    10. I\u2019ve got sunshine on a cloudy day \/ When it\u2019s cold outside, I\u2019ve got the month of May . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
    11. The night we met I knew I needed you so \/ And if I had the chance I\u2019d never let you go . . .<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      Answers to 1-20:\u00a0 1- Heartbreak Hotel (Elvis -1956) 2-Johnny B. Goode (Chuck Berry-1958) 3-Under the Boardwalk (The Drifters-1964) 4-All My Loving (The Beatles-1963) <\/span><\/i>5-<\/span>You Can\u2019t Hurry Love (The Supremes-1966) 6-I Heard It Through the Grapevine (Gladys Knight and the Pips-1967 Marvin Gaye-1968 CCR-1970) 7-Blowin\u2019 in the Wind (Dylan-1963) 8-The Tracks of My Tears (Smokey Robinson & the Miracles -1965) 9-Light My Fire (The Doors-1967 10-Summertime Blues (Eddie Cochran-1958 or Blue Cheer-1968 or The Who-1970) 11-I Walk the Line (Johnny Cash-1956) 12-Misty (Johnny Mathis-1959) 13-My Way (Frank Sinatra-1969) 14-Wonderful World (Sam Cooke-1960) 15-California Dreaming (The Mamas & the Papas-1965) 16-California Girls (The Beach Boys-1965) 17-The Sound of Silence (Simon & Garfunkel-1964) 18-Dancin\u2019 in the Streets (Martha & the Vandellas-1964) 19-My Girl (The Temptations-1964) 20-Be My Baby (The Ronettes-1963)<\/span><\/i>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

      \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0So how did you do?\u00a0 The WOAS West Coast Bureau often says the soundtrack of our lives helps us conjure up many memories and emotions, so even if you can\u2019t put a finger on all the artists listed, I am betting they still triggered your brain to go back in time.\u00a0 Time for round two?\u00a0 All of the songs listed from 1-20 are set in the time frame for those of us who have reached a certain age.\u00a0 Perhaps we should challenge those with a few less trips around the Sun under their belt.\u00a0 Tunes 21-40 in the money round are newer, but all over the genre map.\u00a0 Same rules about cheating apply – Ding:<\/span><\/p>\n

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      1. She\u2019s a good girl, loves her mama \/ Loves Jesus and America too . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      2. My shadow\u2019s the only one that walks beside me \/ My shadow heart\u2019s the only thing that\u2019s beating \/ Sometimes, I wish someone out there will find me . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      3. I got the eye of the tiger, a fighter dancing through the fire \/ \u2018Cause I am a champion . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      4. The wind blows hard against this mountainside, across the sea to my soul \/ It reaches into where I cannot hide, Setting my feet upon the road . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      5. And whatever it takes I\u2019ll find it somehow, whatever it needs I\u2019ll show I\u2019m strong \/ Whatever it takes I\u2019ll make it happen, finding out where I belong . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      6. Now you move so fine \/\u00a0 Let me lay it on the line \/ I wanna know, what you\u2019re doin\u2019 after the show? . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      7. You had your time, you had the power \/ You\u2019ve yet to have your finest hour . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      8. While the rest of them dudes were makin\u2019 their friends \/ Boy, I beg your pardon I was losin\u2019 mine . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      9. And she thinks I\u2019m psycho \u2018cause I like to rhyme her name with things, but \/ Sophistication isn\u2019t what you wear, or who you know . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      10. Facing twenty-thousand of your friends, how can anyone be so lonely? \/ Part of a success that never ends \/ Still I\u2019m thinking about you only . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      11. We sailed on together, we drifted apart \/ And here you are by my side . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      12. If you wake up and don\u2019t want to smile, it takes just a little while \/ Open your eyes and look at the day, you\u2019ll see things in a different way . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      13. Sitting in the classroom thinking it\u2019s a drag \/ Listening to the teacher rap, it just ain\u2019t my bag . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      14. I\u2019ve never seen a diamond in the flesh, I cut my teeth on wedding rings in the movies \/\u00a0 And I\u2019m not proud of my address, in a torn up town, no postcode envy . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      15. So I remember we were driving in your car \/ Speed so fast I felt like I was drunk \/ City lights lay out before us \/ And your arm felt nice wrapped around my shoulder . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      16. What you say about his company, is what you say about society \/ Catch the mist, catch the myth, catch the mystery, catch the drift . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      17. Thirteen month old baby, broke the looking glass \/ Seven years of bad luck, the good things in your past . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      18. I had a brother at Khe Sanh, fightin\u2019 off all the Viet Cong \/ They\u2019re still there, he\u2019s all gone, he had a woman he loved in Saigon . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      19. I\u2019ll play along with the charade, there doesn\u2019t seem to be a reason to change \/ You know, I feel so dirty when they start talking cute, I wanna tell her I love her but the point is probably moot . . .<\/span><\/li>\n
      20. We\u2019re in the homestretch of the hard times \/ We took a hard left but we\u2019re alright \/ Yeah life can sure try to put love through it but \/ We built this right so nothing\u2019s ever gonna move it<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

        Answers for 21-40:\u00a0 21 – Free Fallin\u2019 (Tom Petty-1989) 22 – Boulevard of Broken Dreams – (Green Day-2004) 23 – Roar\u00a0 (Roar-2013) 24 – Kyrie (Mr Mister-1985) 25 – Believe (Cher-1998) 26 – Hot Blooded (Foreigner – 2019) 27 – Radio Ga Ga (Queen-1984) 28 – Mississippi Queen (Mountain-1970) 29 – Better than Revenge (Taylor\u2019s Version) (Taylor Swift-2023) 30-Super Trouper (ABBA-1980) 31- Open Arms (Journey-1981) 32 – Don\u2019t Stop Thinking About Tomorrow (Fleetwood Mac-1977) 33 – Smokin\u2019 in the Boy\u2019s Room (Brownsville Station-1973 \/ Motley Crue-1985) 34 – Royals (Lorde-2012) 35 – Fast Car (Tracy Chapman-1988 \/ Luke Combs-2023) 36-Tom Sawyer (Rush-1981) 37 – Superstitious (Stevie Wonder-1972 \/ Beck, Bogart & Appice -1973) 38 – Born in the USA (Bruce Springsteen-1984) 39 – Jesse\u2019s Girl (Rick Springfield-1981) 40 – The Bones (Marin Morris -2019)<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

        \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0With a little space left to fill, I thought we could play a different game for the bonus round. See if you can fill out the blanks in the last set of lyrics for Billy Joel\u2019s <\/span>We Didn\u2019t Start the Fire.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>With nine stanzas and a chorus between each verse, it would take more space than we have here to run down this whole history lesson in a song, so I cherry picked the last verse and chorus – see if you can fill in the blanks without looking at the last key:<\/span><\/p>\n

        Bonus Round:\u00a0 Birth control, __ __ __, Richard Nixon back again, _______, Woodstock, _______, Punk rock, Begin, ____, Palestine, __ __ __ __ \/ Ayatollahs __ ___, Russian in _____ \/ \u2018Wheel of Fortune\u2019,_____, heavy metal suicide \/ Foreign debts, _____\u00a0 ____, AIDS, ____, Bernie Goetz \/ Hypodermics on the shore, ____\u00a0 ____\u00a0 ____\u00a0 ____ \/ Rock and roller, ____ ____, I can\u2019t take it any more \/ Chorus – We didn\u2019t start the fire, ___ ___ ____ ____, since the world\u2019s been turning \/ We didn\u2019t start the fire, ___ ____ ___ ___ ___\u00a0 it will still burn on and on and on.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

        (Bonus Round Key) Ho Chi Minh, Moonshot, Watergate, Terror on the airline, in Iran, Afghanistan \/ Sally Ride, homeless vets, crack, China\u2019s under martial law, cola wars<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

        Chorus – It was always burning, But when we are gone<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

        \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0One tune out of all the others above kept coming back to me;\u00a0 The Beach Boys <\/span>California Girls.\u00a0 <\/span><\/i>Brian Wilson referred to this song as a \u2018hymn to youth\u2019 and the Beach Boys \u2018anthem\u2019.\u00a0 Wilson said it was one of his favorite songs even though he wasn\u2019t totally satisfied with how the final vocals came out on the record.\u00a0 As for his inspiration, he said the song was conceived on his first acid trip while he was thinking about Western film scores.\u00a0 According to Wiki, \u201cThe song is distinguished for its orchestral prelude, layered vocals, and chromaticism.\u00a0 It was the band\u2019s first recording with touring musician Bruce Johnston who was not yet officially a member of the band.\u00a0 <\/span>California Girls <\/span><\/i>inspired The Beatles to write a parody, <\/span>Back in the USSR <\/span><\/i>(from their <\/span>White Album<\/span><\/i>) as well as many other songs with similar titles (like Katy Perry\u2019s <\/span>California Gurls<\/span><\/i>).\u00a0 David Lee Roth\u2019s 2010 version peaked at #3 on the charts, just like The Beach Boys original release (back in 1965).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

        \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Wilson elaborated on the creation of the song in a 2007 interview:\u00a0 \u201c[Sitting at the piano] I was thinking about the music from cowboy movies.\u00a0 And I sat down and started playing it, bum-buh deeda, bum,-buh deeda.\u00a0 I did that for about an hour.\u00a0 I got these chords going.\u00a0 Then I got this melody, it came pretty fast after that.\u201d\u00a0 In his mind, Wilson was trying for a feel much like the Drifters <\/span>Under the Boardwalk<\/span><\/i> and the shuffle beat was influenced by Bach\u2019s <\/span>Jesu, Joy of Man\u2019s Desiring.\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

        \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Singer Mike Love helped him finish the lyrics the next day but the band\u2019s publisher (Murry Wilson, the Wilson brother\u2019s father) did not give him credit.\u00a0 Love was successful in getting his songwriting credit restored via a 1990 lawsuit.\u00a0 They later clashed on who wrote what with Love claiming he wrote \u2018everything but the \u2018<\/span>I wish they all could be California girls\u2019 part<\/span><\/i>.\u00a0 Wilson maintains it was a collaborative back and forth with both contributing lines.\u00a0 Noted session musician Carol Kaye says Brian Wilson was responsible for all of the music with the exception of the bass parts she laid down.\u00a0 Kaye also invented the bass fill at the end of the bridge section.<\/span><\/p>\n

        \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0If I have managed to load you down with a few \u2018earwigs\u2019 (you know, those pesky little snippets of songs you can\u2019t get out of your head), I am sorry.\u00a0 Actually, I am not because I am plagued with them all of the time.\u00a0 The best way I have found to get them out of my head is to share them with someone else.\u00a0 You are most welcome!\u00a0 Now, if someone would please take <\/span>California Girls <\/span><\/i>out of my head for a bit (bum-buh deeda, bum-buh deeda . . .)<\/span><\/p>\n

        Top Piece Video – After that big build up, what else could it be?<\/p>\n

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