Amoeba wasn't in "Kokomo"?
― voodoo chili, Friday, 14 March 2014 17:25 (ten years ago) link
hahaha, would go well with the "mounds of rotten steak" reportedly found in Martinique (thanks, ILX)
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 14 March 2014 17:29 (ten years ago) link
"Bravado" in "Baby Come Back" by Player?
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 17 March 2014 03:04 (ten years ago) link
"Worcestershire sauce" in "Crack a Bottle." Kind of a wretched song but it would be cool if the "bottle" in question actually contained a tangy condiment for beef dishes.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 2 April 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
"Cargo," in "Rock the Boat"?
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 5 April 2014 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Well, there's also this, but I doubt it was ever a hit...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayfZKdE5OOw
― Tuomas, Saturday, 5 April 2014 17:05 (ten years ago) link
Has there ever been a hit single version of 'This Old Man'? If not, I'm going to nominate Pop Muzik by M as the only hit to include 'knick knack paddy whack'― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, January 1, 2014 4:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink"Knick knack paddy whack" is also in Ludacris's "Get Back."― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, January 1, 2014 12:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ferret is followed! (soref), Wednesday, January 1, 2014 4:10 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
"Knick knack paddy whack" is also in Ludacris's "Get Back."
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, January 1, 2014 12:51 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
...and Ludacris's "How Low!" Wish he'd really followed through and tried to include it, somewhere, in every song.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 6 April 2014 03:22 (ten years ago) link
Any other uses of soppy aside from slap & tickle? (Squeeze)
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 6 April 2014 04:31 (ten years ago) link
"Orphanages" in "You Can Call Me Al"
― MarkoP, Sunday, 6 April 2014 04:33 (ten years ago) link
"TransPass" and probably "corns" (the things people get on their feet) and maybe (though I doubt it) "alakazam" (not to mention all sorts of pseudo-words in Carnese or whatever the made-up language is -- not Double Dutch, apparently): "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith
― xhuxk, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 14:18 (ten years ago) link
"Alakazam" is indeed in "Open Sesame" by Kool & the Gang.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 17:37 (ten years ago) link
Also there's the old bubblegum classic "Wham Bam Ala Cazam" by The Tricks but dunno if it was a real hit or not.
Now I'm wondering if "skippers" is in any other songs other than McLaren's "Double Dutch".
― everything, Wednesday, 9 April 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
"Alakazam" is in Nat King Cole's Orange Coloured Sky, as well as The Marvelettes' My Baby Must Be A Magician.
― Eyeball Kicks, Thursday, 10 April 2014 08:55 (ten years ago) link
"eloquence" from When Smokey Sings by ABC
This one is also in De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Thursday, 10 April 2014 09:05 (ten years ago) link
when Sting's 'eloquence' escapes you...
― It's Pablum Time with (NickB), Thursday, 10 April 2014 09:06 (ten years ago) link
And Elton's "Sartorial Eloquence" ..
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 April 2014 12:57 (ten years ago) link
(I read that as Trio's "Da da da", and was thinking "probably the 12" version..")
― Mark G, Thursday, 10 April 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
God, "Sartorial Eloquence" - got introduced to that through the Elton ballot poll and I swear it now gets stuck in my head more than any of his classic hits. DON'T YOU WANNA PLAY THIS GAME NO MORE???
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 10 April 2014 14:34 (ten years ago) link
It also has "indisposed," but I'm sure that has to be on other things.
Black Hole Sun:
"In my eyes. Indisposed. In disguise as no one knows..."
― LimbsKing, Monday, 14 April 2014 17:02 (ten years ago) link
oh duhhhh
― Doctor Casino, Monday, 14 April 2014 20:33 (ten years ago) link
Lightning Crashes -- Placenta? As in...
"Her placenta falls to the floor"
― LimbsKing, Friday, 18 April 2014 11:22 (ten years ago) link
"By the middle of March when the pregnancy starts in your lady's placenta - that means L just entered"
― Gritty Shakur (sic), Friday, 18 April 2014 11:49 (ten years ago) link
"cavalier" in "She's Out of My Life". Probably there's some other hit song that has used it but I can't think of it
― Vinnie, Friday, 18 April 2014 13:12 (ten years ago) link
no fear, cavalier, renegade and steer cleara tournament, a tournament, a tournament of flies
― how's life, Friday, 18 April 2014 13:16 (ten years ago) link
That song has too many words in it, invalidates half the songs on this thread
― Vinnie, Friday, 18 April 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
Does "Hormones" appear in any other song besides "Genie in a Bottle" ?
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 08:01 (ten years ago) link
''Area Codes'' for one...
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
'streamers' in 'Cars and Girls'?
― soref, Wednesday, 23 April 2014 14:30 (ten years ago) link
Dean Friedman's "Ariel" has "vertical hold" - and, a long shot, "Jewish."
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 27 April 2014 03:23 (ten years ago) link
"faculty" in Bowie's 'Blue Jean'
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 27 April 2014 11:47 (ten years ago) link
"trepidation" in pet shop boys - being boring
― clouds, Sunday, 27 April 2014 13:43 (ten years ago) link
"congruent" in Eve 6's "Leech." Not a great song by any stretch, but came on my ipod this morning.
― LimbsKing, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 18:01 (ten years ago) link
"finagling" in "Chug-a-Lug"
"chancellor" and probably a few other things in "Triumph"
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 21 May 2014 13:09 (ten years ago) link
Sheryl Crow discussion elsewhere suggests "vending machine," "intellectualism," "brochure," and "nicotine" in "Every Day Is A Winding Road."
"Communist" on "Soak Up The Sun" has to have appeared elsewhere. "Crummy," maybe?
"If It Makes You Happy" has some good proper names (Geronimo, Benny Goodman) and "mosquito" which is probably in a bunch of things I can't place right this second (not to mention "Red Mosquito" by Pearl Jam, which wasn't a commercial single but barely cracked the Modern Rock top 40 anyway).
"A Change Will Do You Good" had "Falstaff," "bottom-feeder," "cement shoes" and "jack off."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:02 (ten years ago) link
Also - "poultry" on "Long Tall Glasses"?
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:06 (ten years ago) link
(nothing to do with Sheryl Crow)
'Sodomy' in "What's My Age Again?"
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 May 2014 18:18 (ten years ago) link
got halfway through typing "it's in 'Disarm'" before I caught myself.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 18:57 (ten years ago) link
"mosquito" which is probably in a bunch of things I can't place right this second
Smells Like Teen Spirit?
― Turtleneck Work Solutions (Nasty, Brutish & Short), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
(slaps forehead, squashes mosquito)
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 19:12 (ten years ago) link
This wasn't a big hit, but...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOe5ie_cZa0
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:26 (ten years ago) link
"2011" in Chromeo's Jealous, which is currently a modest hit in Canada.
― MarkoP, Friday, 30 May 2014 19:27 (ten years ago) link
there's also loco mosquito by iggy, a jonathan richman song about them, and I think a Stan Ridgway solo track
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
"Alabaster?" (Wrapped Around Your Finger)
― Khamma chameleon (Jon Lewis), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:29 (ten years ago) link
In a few things - discussed upthread. And wow, that Ike & Tina b-side is something.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 30 May 2014 19:36 (ten years ago) link
Oh yeah, written by Tina's sister about Ike!
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:40 (ten years ago) link
In honor of the current poll:
'Braille' in "Subterranean Homesick Blues" 'Mathematicians' in "Tangled Up In Blue"
― Damnit Janet Weiss & The Riot Grrriel (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 May 2014 19:47 (ten years ago) link
[Sheryl Crow's] "A Change Will Do You Good" had "Falstaff," "bottom-feeder," "cement shoes" and "jack off."
― Doctor Casino, Friday, May 30, 2014 2:02 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
also while there are a few hit songs with generic microwave ovens in them, only "A Change Will Do You Good" has a RADARANGE™
― Lee626, Friday, 30 May 2014 20:17 (ten years ago) link
tentatively going to suggest 'ciggies' in Looking for Linda by Hue And Cry
― Groovy Wordbender (soref), Thursday, 5 June 2014 07:57 (ten years ago) link