johnfowles
11-21-2010, 01:34 PM
I am going to present an example of the adroitness of Google (if you do not know what that means then please look it up in your Funk and Wagnalls)
For a while recently I found as you sometimes do that I had a word from a song going around and around in my head and I just could not remember what the song was.
All I could recall was that it was from an unusual song whose title I could not dreg up . I only knew it was about a river with a strange name that sounded something like Mahongahele so I called up the trusty google search box and was suitably astounded that Google knew and found what I was looking for:-
http://johnfowles.org.uk/images/bananas1.jpg
I then opened that wiki and spotted a menu link to
"usage in popular culture"
and took a butchers (hook i.e.look)
http://johnfowles.org.uk/images/bananas2.jpg
BINGO YES of course that was it!!
a further google for the song title found me the following "lyrics" that I had not heard for over 40 years but because of their adsurdity seemed strikingly familiar to me.
OH, YOUR RED SCARF MATCHES YOUR EYES,
YOU CLOSED YOUR COVER BEFORE STRIKING,
FATHER HAD THE SHIPFITTER BLUES,
LOVING YOU HAS MADE ME BANANAS
that google (for Loving You Has Made Me Bananas)
also found me a delightful BBC TOTP Top Of The Pops video on youtube
YouTube - Guy Marks - Loving You Has Made Me Bananas [totp2]
although I listened to the spoken intro very closely several times I failed to hear the word that had started this quest off so I modified my google search to include the word "lyrics"not expecting that to yield much as the parody did not I thought really consist of lyrics in the usual sense. But I was wrong because I found
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2906298
which detailed the intro very nicely indeed
(Spoken) From the Hotel Sheetz in downtown Plunketville, the Nalumkian Broadcasting Company presents the music of Pete DeAngeles and his Loyal Plunketvillevanians here in the beautiful gold, yellow, copper-steel Iron Ballroom of the Hotel Sheetz in downtown Plunketville, ultimately the uptown section of downtown Pottstown. Stay with us, won’t you, and enjoy the sweetest music this side of the Monongahela river, one mile high, two-and-one-half blocks from the center of Old New Orleans. Ah, there’s gaiety, merriment and dancing in the Hotel Sheetz nightly. Now, to get things under way, Pete and his Loyal Banditos play a medley of old standard favorites, commencing with “Your Red Scarf Matches Your Eyes”, “Close Cover Before Striking”, “Your Father Had The Shipfitter Blues”, and “Loving You Has Made Me Bananas”. This beautiful picture and lovely lyric, portrayed vocally by Dickie Ryan
I tried the youtube video again and another similar video of Mr Marks but neither had that exact intro nor the vital word "Monongahela"
Refusing to accept that I was to be denied the chance of hearing the word that was still going around in my head I tried googling again on the off chance I could find an mp3 of the actual record that I remembered and BINGO again
http://abmp3.com/download/3718388-loving-you-has-made-me-bananas.html
From where I downloaded a.3MB 160KBPS mp3
Ain't life grand??!!
For a while recently I found as you sometimes do that I had a word from a song going around and around in my head and I just could not remember what the song was.
All I could recall was that it was from an unusual song whose title I could not dreg up . I only knew it was about a river with a strange name that sounded something like Mahongahele so I called up the trusty google search box and was suitably astounded that Google knew and found what I was looking for:-
http://johnfowles.org.uk/images/bananas1.jpg
I then opened that wiki and spotted a menu link to
"usage in popular culture"
and took a butchers (hook i.e.look)
http://johnfowles.org.uk/images/bananas2.jpg
BINGO YES of course that was it!!
a further google for the song title found me the following "lyrics" that I had not heard for over 40 years but because of their adsurdity seemed strikingly familiar to me.
OH, YOUR RED SCARF MATCHES YOUR EYES,
YOU CLOSED YOUR COVER BEFORE STRIKING,
FATHER HAD THE SHIPFITTER BLUES,
LOVING YOU HAS MADE ME BANANAS
that google (for Loving You Has Made Me Bananas)
also found me a delightful BBC TOTP Top Of The Pops video on youtube
YouTube - Guy Marks - Loving You Has Made Me Bananas [totp2]
although I listened to the spoken intro very closely several times I failed to hear the word that had started this quest off so I modified my google search to include the word "lyrics"not expecting that to yield much as the parody did not I thought really consist of lyrics in the usual sense. But I was wrong because I found
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x2906298
which detailed the intro very nicely indeed
(Spoken) From the Hotel Sheetz in downtown Plunketville, the Nalumkian Broadcasting Company presents the music of Pete DeAngeles and his Loyal Plunketvillevanians here in the beautiful gold, yellow, copper-steel Iron Ballroom of the Hotel Sheetz in downtown Plunketville, ultimately the uptown section of downtown Pottstown. Stay with us, won’t you, and enjoy the sweetest music this side of the Monongahela river, one mile high, two-and-one-half blocks from the center of Old New Orleans. Ah, there’s gaiety, merriment and dancing in the Hotel Sheetz nightly. Now, to get things under way, Pete and his Loyal Banditos play a medley of old standard favorites, commencing with “Your Red Scarf Matches Your Eyes”, “Close Cover Before Striking”, “Your Father Had The Shipfitter Blues”, and “Loving You Has Made Me Bananas”. This beautiful picture and lovely lyric, portrayed vocally by Dickie Ryan
I tried the youtube video again and another similar video of Mr Marks but neither had that exact intro nor the vital word "Monongahela"
Refusing to accept that I was to be denied the chance of hearing the word that was still going around in my head I tried googling again on the off chance I could find an mp3 of the actual record that I remembered and BINGO again
http://abmp3.com/download/3718388-loving-you-has-made-me-bananas.html
From where I downloaded a.3MB 160KBPS mp3
Ain't life grand??!!