OTN Everybody's Talkin' At Me
Hello and welcome to another weekly edition of On That Note. We do this as a team, myself and @cyclones500 and @CycloneRulzzz.
The last few weeks we've looked back at best/favorite LPs from decades ending in '9'. The most recent one is here:
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/on-that-note-to-the-9%E2%80%99s-part-4-1999.249145/
This week we're going in a more traditional and/or random direction.
This idea occurred to me on July 4th. I was in a public place and at the event there was a lot of music variety. Among the songs that I heard that day was Sweet Home Alabama. And as we all know it opens with the guitar lick then one of the band members says, prior to the start of actual singing, "Turn It Up."
Which got me thinking... Hmmm, what OTHER songs begin with spoken words before the actual singing?
I initially couldn't think of too many, but presented the idea to 500 and Rulzzz and they both like it so we bounced it around a while and came up with a couple dozen or so eventually. We also discussed the parameters/rules.
My last one, technically, doesn't meet the rules we set, but it was the first one I thought of after hearing the Lynyrd Skynyrd song. I believe the girls are singing the opening two words in this one but I've always just been so amused by this. I just try to imagine the recording session. "Okay girls this song is called, Love Child. First before the song really starts we'll have Mary and Cindy sing "Tenement Slum." Yeah, that's right, just once at the beginning."
Hello and welcome to another weekly edition of On That Note. We do this as a team, myself and @cyclones500 and @CycloneRulzzz.
The last few weeks we've looked back at best/favorite LPs from decades ending in '9'. The most recent one is here:
https://cyclonefanatic.com/forum/threads/on-that-note-to-the-9%E2%80%99s-part-4-1999.249145/
This week we're going in a more traditional and/or random direction.
This idea occurred to me on July 4th. I was in a public place and at the event there was a lot of music variety. Among the songs that I heard that day was Sweet Home Alabama. And as we all know it opens with the guitar lick then one of the band members says, prior to the start of actual singing, "Turn It Up."
Which got me thinking... Hmmm, what OTHER songs begin with spoken words before the actual singing?
I initially couldn't think of too many, but presented the idea to 500 and Rulzzz and they both like it so we bounced it around a while and came up with a couple dozen or so eventually. We also discussed the parameters/rules.
- Track has to be a song. Not a spoken word recording like Americans by Gordon Sinclair or We Love You Call Collect by Art Linkletter.
- The spoken part has to be before the first singing, but not necessarily before the first instruments/music.
- Count-ins DO NOT COUNT, so no I Saw Her Standing There or Taxman.
- Live versions with spoken intros by band members or by Masters of Ceremony (MC) are also to be excluded.
My last one, technically, doesn't meet the rules we set, but it was the first one I thought of after hearing the Lynyrd Skynyrd song. I believe the girls are singing the opening two words in this one but I've always just been so amused by this. I just try to imagine the recording session. "Okay girls this song is called, Love Child. First before the song really starts we'll have Mary and Cindy sing "Tenement Slum." Yeah, that's right, just once at the beginning."
