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OK, if this hint helps point someone in the right direction.....the artist who originally recorded this tune only lasted another 14 months or so himself. I think I'm way, way too old for this board.....

Agree with Ira....aside from Satisfaction, Paint It Black, Ruby Tuesday, Little Red Rooster (about 10 years ago, I think), Not Fade Away (3 tours ago?), and a couple of soul covers (Everybody Needs Somebody, That's How Strong My Love Is), the Stones haven't been doing anything from their first 6-7 LPs in years. In addition th Ira's list, I'd also like to hear The Last Time and Tell Me. They appear to be primarily catering to their 70's catalog enthusiasts.

Another hint....the artist who first recorded this tune was scheduled to join that 1959 concert tour, but couldn't make it. His/her original version wasn't released for 6-7 years. In the meantime, another artist had a hit with it.

.....possibly....maybe there was....

OK, here's today's tune....although it would have been more appropriate to have done this one last Friday (hint). Look up in the sky, up towards the north, There are three new stars, brightly shining forth, They're shining oh so bright from heaven above, Gee, we're gonna miss you, everybody sends their love Name that tune.....and the artist.

OK, we have a complaint from the peanut gallery. While Sterling's post hit the thread first above, his time of 10:03AM was matched by that of the TTMM team's post. Therefore, I'm awarding points to all 3 of them.....in addition to a half-point for CubFanMike for his Cramps answer the day before (but no song name). The standings: Tommy Tunes - 3 (or 4 if I give him another point for the Jerry Lee Lewis answer) AnneG - 2 Sterling -2 Marvin (in conjunction w/TT) - 2 Jump Man - 1 CubFanMike - .5 Nobody - 3 Anybody else want any points?

Sterling got it in a matter of minutes....and yes, Tommy, Jerry Lee Lewis is the first artist to record that song. Mickey Newbury (sp? - I've seen his name spelled several different ways) wrote it for The Killer, but his version stiffed.....as did Newbury's/Newberry's on his first LP as well. Rogers recorded it in '68, and it became his first big hit. Whatever happened to his chicken places? I always liked his chicken (marinated in some sort of a lemon/pepper seasoning), even if you did have to listen to "The Gambler" or "Ruby, Don't Take Your Love To Town" if you ate your order on the premises.....

OK, it appears we have no takers for this lofty "position". Due to popular demand for an easier one today, try this...... Louie Louie, Oh no, I say, me gotta go.....NO, Forget THAT one, it's too easy...... How about - I can't sleep nights, wishing you were here beside me.....NO, forget that one too!!! The REAL tune for Monday - Hint: The author of this song wrote it for a very well known artist, who first recorded it, but it went nowhere. It became a Top 40 hit about a year later for another singer/group..... Name this tune, as well as the original artist AND the artist who had the big hit with it. Pushed my soul in a deep, dark hole and followed it in. When I met myself crawlin' out as I was crawlin' in

Just wondering how the Board members did...I also won an EC-signed copy of "Tonight!", and a used Wally setlist from the 12/31/04 show....cool items, and the money went for a great cause!

Hmmmm....I warned Mr. Tunes that these kinds of complaints would occur. I inherited this slot by identifying a bunch of his tunes which, frankly, also weren't known to most of the board members here. Now...the reason I pulled out the old Hasil Adkins gem today ("She Said", also recorded by The Cramps as a B-side - the Haze played his last show at the Las Vegas Rockaround in Sept. 2004...he passed away in early '05)...was because my last 2 tunes were ID'd by AnneG in a matter of minutes. Apparently, they should all be softballs? Hey, if that's what ya want, that should be what you get...BUT I suggest that someone more attuned to Top 40/mainstream (translation: less of a music geek than me) do it........do we have a volunteer to take over this thread? Anybody that wants it can have it, without the slightest hard feelings from me. I'd love to be spared the work of thinking up a new song every day. Thanks in advance - anyone who wants the thread....

Nope, it is definitely NOT "Goo Goo Muck".....

Also - As the Cramps have covered dozens and dozens of tunes, some even more obscure than this one, I at least need the song title.....

CubfanMike - Sorry, I'm looking for more than just the name of the artists who covered this tune.......(If no one else gets it, I'll give you partial credit, OK?)

OK, this one will either be an easy slam dunk for someone (assuming we have other crackpot eccentrics like myself on the board....and I'm confident we have several), or no one will get it. These lyrics are my interpretation, and may not be accurate, due to the inebriation of the artist when this was recorded... I went out last night and I got messed up, When I woke up this morning, You shoulda seen what I had in the bed with me, She comes up at me outta the bed, Pull her hair down her eye, Looks to me like a dying can of that commodity meat Guess this "tune".........and if you REALLY know this one, and don't google it (and good luck on that!).....what the f*** are you doing on an Eric C/Raspberries board???? Also, I'm looking for the original artiste here, not the perhaps better known cover......

OK, since everyone (well, at least CubFanMike) is clamoring for the standings, here they are: AnneG - 2 Tommy Tunes - 2 (I'm giving him a whole point for the "Light Of Day" joint venture guess with Marvin, since he PM'd me first on the Tattoo song earlier before anyone else guessed it) Jump Man - 1 Sterling - 1 Marvin - 1 (I'll give him a whole point, even if Tommy Tunes in the one who posted it) Nobody guessed - 3 Stay tuned for Sunday's tune....it's coming up shortly.....

Sorry, but I don't hear much of an Eric or Todd connection in Dwight T. BadfingerBarb's Beatles/Gene V. connection is a lot closer to the mark for me. Vocally, he's a cross between John Lennon and Alan Clarke (Hollies), with some Sun rockabilly (although God knows, not 50%) tossed in. If I recall, he did his earliest recordings with a former Sun rockabilly (Ray Harris maybe?) at the control board (prior to the Shelter days).

AnneG wins again!....and sorry for the seeming lack of lyrics, but there ain't no more! The name of the 45 was "I Don't Want Nobody To Get Me Nothing (Open Up The Door, I'll Get It Myself), Part I", with Part II on the B-side. The lyrics consist of the title over and over and over and over....again. (As they would have said on the rating on American Bandstand, "Not much in the way of lyrics, but you can really dance to it! I'd give it an 85." It's quite possibly the longest name for a single ever. I still have this 45 on the King label, credited to James Brown and the Famous Flames...and the title takes up practically the entire label. These last 2 songs have been identified (both by AnneG) quickly....I'll try for a tougher one tomorrow....maybe an LP cut of some sort, as opposed to a top 40 hit.

OK, for Saturday's NAME THAT TUNE, we have another old Top 40 hit, although I don't believe it went very high on the Billboard charts....definitely a minor hit for this particular artist - I don't want nobody to get me nothing, Open up the door, I'll get it myself Name that tune......

Actually, if anyone's really interested in The Hombres (not likely), they started out backing Ronnie of Ronnie & The Daytonas fame when he played live, and their keyboard player/singer was the brother of one of the Box Tops. Their one hit single was actually on a decent-sized label (Verve), and they were produced by Huey B. Meaux, who produced a lot of Louisiana/Texas artists in the 60's (early Doug Sahm, for one example). A friend of mine actually had a copy of their only LP....it wasn't very good. "Let It Out" was kind of an imitation Dylan tune (not unlike Mouse & The Traps' "A Public Execution".) Kudos to the producers of "Elizabethtown" for unearthing this old gem. When I heard it in the movie, it was kinda like the jolt I received at the start of the flick "High Fidelity", when they play the 13th Floor Elevators' garage classic "You're Gonna Miss Me." You just don't expect to hear great trash like this anymore!

Correct...score one for AnneG. "Let It Out (Let It All Hang Out)", perhaps one of the silliest songs or 45s of all time, was the only Top 40 hit for the Memphis-based Hombres, who also put out an LP ('66 or '67, maybe?) named after that song. I'm not sure what happened to the members of this band, and I'm also not sure that I care..... Next tune tomorrow, Saturday......

OK, here's an old semi-hit single that was recently used in a movie starring Orlando Bloom and Kirsten Dunst.....which should be enough of a clue, I'm guessing. I'm just going to toss out the spoken intro - A preachment, dear friend, you're about to receive, On John Barleycorn, nicotine, and the temptations of Eve (Raspberry sound - the kind when you stick out your tongue and make a rude noise, NOT the band we all know and love....) Name that tune...

Thanks, Tommy! I just got my first B-day "surprise" 4 days early.....my friend and I won't be alone at the new beach house this weekend....her mother's also going to be there (GRRRRRRRRR.....)

Possibly.....

Well, I guess the way things have been going on this thread, it'll be time for me to pick another tune tomorrow that nobody'll get....although God knows, I'm NOT doing that deliberately....

Score a point for Marvin & Tommy. Unfortunately, Michael J. Fox also sang that song during that flick. Your T-E-A-M comment reminds me of an Albert Belle story, from his Cleveland Indians days. Rumor had it the manager (Hargrove, maybe?) once gave Albert the old lecture about there being no "i" in "team", when Mr. Belle allegedly replied - "Yeah, but there's an M and an E!"