07 October, 2009 12:14
On a lighter note or: Those were the days, my friend, we thought they'd never end...*
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A fellow ager sent the message below. Seemed about right, we're at an age when Def Leppard describes us, and is no longer the name of a band (even if it is, they probably are).
It was fun being a baby boomer - until now. Why, even some of the artists of the 60's are revising their hits:
Hermans Hermits - Mrs Brown you've got a lovely walker.
Bee Gees - How can you mend a broken hip?
Roberta Flack - First time ever I forgot your face.
Paul Simon - 50 ways to lose your liver.
The Commodores - Once, twice, three times to the bathroom.
Marvin Gaye - Heard it through the hearing aid.
Procol Harem - A whiter shade of hair
Leo Sayer - You make me feel like napping.
The Temptations - Pappas got a kidney stone.
Abba - Denture Queen
Helen Reddy - I am woman hear me snore.
Leslie Gore - It's my procedure and I'll cry if I want to.
And my favourite...
Willy Nelson - On the commode again
(*Title with apology to The Limeliters, Mary Hopkin )
I'm sure those with the time, wit, and still functioning memory, could add to the list?
08/10/2009, 15:03
Beach Boys - California Grandmothers
- Big Deuce Stationwagon
Beatles - I wanna hold your hand (to walk across the road)
- She Loved Me
- When I was 64
- Back in the Russian Federation
- Shuffle and Mutter
The Who - Your Generation
CCR - I Heard it Through My Earphone
Chicago - Endings
Grand Funk Railroad - We Were an American Band
Bruce Springsteen - Died in the USA
Jethro Tull - Locomotive Wheeze
- Snorkel
Bob Dylan - A Hard Rain's Gonna...uh, Blow in the Wind in Memphis with the Blues Again
15/10/2009, 09:02
I love it! And the one that might not change - 'Can't get no satisfaction!'?
15/10/2009, 11:36
"Ah no, no, no...
Tak taka tak
Hey hey hey hey hey...
That's what I say"
And of coruse those reworked Stones classics:
- Little grey rooster
- 256th nervous breakdown
- Tame horses
04/11/2009, 17:45
Hey - some of us boomers haven't even hit middle age yet! (that's my story, and I'm sticking to it!)
But then again, having watched Steve Winded and Eric Clapped-out "live" on TV the other night, and having had to miss a concert of 70s greats which was cancelled due to lack of ticket sales (Bifocals - previously Focus; Strawberry Puree - previously Strawbs; and Cremation Dust, previously Wishbone Ash) I realise that for some, the Times really are A-changin'...