Wednesday, October 3, 2007

"Son of a Gun (I Betcha Think This Song Is About You)"


First, I'm sorry it took song long to get these up here, but it sounds like most of you knew a lot of them anyway.

1. "American Pie" does mention characters that people have asserted are representative of Elvis, The Stones, etc. The song is about "The Day the Music Died" and is therefore about Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper. Dion of Dion and the Belmonts turned down the chance to get on the plane, and Waylon Jennings, who was playing in Buddy Holly's band, gave up his seat to the Big Bopper.

2. Marilyn Monroe is the answer, the song's opening line "Goodbye Norma Jean" references her real name.

3. Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, whose story was spread even farther when Denzel Washington starred in a movie about him.

4. Marvin Gaye is one, and Jackie Wilson is the other. This song was the first hit for the Commodores after Lionel Richie went solo.

5. Aisha Morris is indeed Stevie Wonder's "less than one minute old" daughter.

6. Andy Kaufman is also right, sort of a gimmie what with the movie and all.

7. Shots rang out... MLK Jr. is right again. Hemisphire is rolling.

8. Patrick got this one right, it is about Don Mclean.

9. Pattie Boyd, one of the most interesting love triangles in Classic Rock

10. Poor Tony Kanal, everyone knows you broke Gwen's heart, no one remembers your name.

11. Joan Baez is said to have wrote this song about her relationship with Bob Dylan. Think Mitch and Mickey.

12. This song is supposed to be a about Leonard Cohen.

13. "Ring of Fire" was written by June Carter, about Johnny Cash. Did nobody watch Walk the Line?

14. Christopher Wallace, a.k.a. The Notorious B.I.G,. a.k.a Biggie Smalls, a.k.a. Big Poppa, a.k.a. Frank White.

15. Jackie Onassis indeed.

Dave Coulier from Full House is indeed the leading candidate for "You Oughta Know" and the man wearing the apricot scarf in "You're So Vain" will always be Beatty in my head.

Congrats to Hemisphire for mopping up, Lykaon for getting in first, and Patrick for adding one of the missing ones. thank you all for playing.

1 comment:

Anastasia B. said...

BWAHAHAHAHA!

There's a kiss at the end of the rainbow...

which makes me think of "it's blowing you and me!"