Posted by Roy
on 5/1/2009, 10:21 am
Message modified by board administrator 5/1/2009, 10:24 am
Every so often we post about mistaken lyrics--what we thought we heard and what was actually sung--in songs.
The other day I was thinking about popular artists we hear on the radio, and not knowing what they really look like, the images that form in our individual minds as to how they appear. A good example is when I first heard Tom Jones I thought he was black (Otis Redding made the same assumption about The Righteous Brothers--so did James Brown about The Shangri-Las). And I thought Chris Montez and Neil Sedaka were female singers.
Back in the summer of '65, when Sonny and Cher charted with I Got You Babe, and some time before watching them on Where The Action Is, I thought I was hearing a couple of short-haired guys who I imagined were Everly Brothers clones. I certainly didn't picture two refugees from an Alley Oop comic strip! And of course I wondered why parents would name a boy "Share!"
Then about five years later I first heard The Carpenters and it didn't occur to me that it was a brother and sister team, or even that Carpenter was their surname. Since Karen sang all the leads, I just figured they were an all-female group that dressed like construction workers, much like Paul Revere and The Raiders with their colonial getups, or Gary Puckett And The Union Gap in their Civil War suits!
Any other thoughts on this?
-Roy
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