By FAYETTE (152.163.188.68) on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 08:13 pm:

HAVE YOU EVER HEARD THE LYRICS TO A SONG AND
IT TOUCHED YOU SO MUCH UNTIL IT FELT LIKE
IT WAS YOUR LIFE STORY.TELL ME WHAT IS THAT SONG TITLE AND WHY IT TOUCHED YOU IN THAT WAY??????

By Horse (68.61.77.137) on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 08:48 pm:

A Horse With No Name by America.

Why..? because some fool's always riding my back about something..!

By john dixon (152.163.188.68) on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 08:57 pm:

...and there ain't no one for to give ya no pain.

By KevGo (64.115.26.80) on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 10:12 pm:

Anything from Smokey Robinson, Teddy Randazzo (especially "Going Out Of My Head"), the Association's Terry Kirkman ("Cherish", "Everything That Touches You")and the Addrisi Brothers' "Never My Love"
Kevin Goins - KevGo

By STUBASS (206.135.204.2) on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 10:17 pm:

HORSE: EN ESPANIOL...ESTUBE EN EL DESIERTO...CON CABILLO SIN NOMBRE!!!...WASN'T THAT SONG ABOUT "SMACK" ANYWAY'S???...ESTUBASSO

By Nish (66.119.34.39) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 12:13 am:

Any Smokey song. Anything Raoul Cita, Billy Ward, Frank Wilson, Laura Nyro and Teddy Randazzo wrote would be okay with me. But I really wish I could have written "It's The Way Nature Planned It" by the Four Tops or... OOH BABY BABY by the Miracles (this is the most unhealthy obsession with a song you all will ever witness, really).

By STUBASS (206.135.204.2) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 12:18 am:

IT'S REALLY KIND OF FUNNY THAT YOU MENTION SMOKEY NISH!!!...WHEN I WAS A KID GROWING UP DOWN THE STREET FROM SMOKEY...I WAS BEFRIENDED BY SMOKEY'S VALET...A BIG MUSCULAR GUY NAMED GAYLORD...AND I USED TO HANG AROUND SHOOTING THE S#!& WITH GAYLORD...AND HELP HIM WASH SMOKEYS CADILLAC AND STUFF!!!...APPARENTLY...GAYLORD WAS HITTING THE WASTE PAPER BASKET IN SMOKEYS HOUSE...AND COPPING SOME OF SMOKEYS REJECT MATERIAL...AND TAKING IT AROUND TRYING TO SELL THE STUFF!!!...AT LEAST THATS WHAT ONE OF MY MANAGERS TOLD ME...WHEN HE RAN ACROSS GAYLORD TRYING TO PEDDLE SOME SONGS...AND I TOLD HIM THAT THE GUY WAS SMOKEYS VALET!!!...IT ALL MADE SENSE...BECAUSE THIS GUY TOLD ME THAT FOR A GUY WITH SONGS HE HAD ALLEGEDLY WRITTEN...HE SURE DIDN'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT MUSIC!!!...TRUE STORY!!!...STU

By Nish (170.224.224.102) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 12:43 am:

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Great story Stu! But that just goes to show you, even songs Smokey didn't think were GOOD ENOUGH were probably good enough. LOL!!!

Gaylord!!! Somebody have mercy on that name. LOL.

By Ritchie (62.254.0.9) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 06:51 am:

Back in the early 70s when I fronted a 50s Rock'n'Roll band, I dabbled in songwriting, and my compositions were deliberately in an early 60s pastiche style. I recall being amused after we'd recorded one particular song of mine - a Rick Nelson-ish Country-rock tune - to hear the last line of my middle eight on a record in my collection...

"'cause a man ain't supposed to cry"

I'd accidentally 'borrowed' both lyric and melody from Dee Clark's "Raindrops".

By R&B (138.238.41.128) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 09:35 am:

FOR ME THAT SONG WOULD BE[I CAN'T FIND]BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH YOU MAY FALL IN LOVE MANY TIMES THE FIRST LOVE IS THE DEEPEST AND NONE OF THE OTHERS QUITE MEASURE UP.THAT'S WHAT SMOKEY MEANT WHEN HE WROTE[I'VE BEEN LOOKIN THERE'S JUST NOBODY AROUND,NO SENSE LOOKIN FOR WHO CAN NEVER BE FOUND}.

By FAYETTE (152.163.188.68) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 09:41 am:

there was a song titled SWEET BITTER LOVE.I THOUGHT
THE LYRICS WERE SO TOUCHING.EVEN THOUGH I WAS
14 AND NEVER BEEN IN LOVE,THAT SONG MADE ME CRY
EVEN THOUGH I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS CRYING ABOUT.

I'D PLAY IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN.THOSE LYRICS WERE
TOUCHING.I WISH I COULD TOUCH EMOTIONS LIKE THAT.

By Jim G (205.188.209.38) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:25 am:

Fayette,

Aretha recorded "Sweet Bitter Love" for Columbia in 1964--perhaps this is the version you're referring to.

By fayette (152.163.188.68) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 10:27 am:

jim that's the one

By LTLFTC (12.210.76.205) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 11:04 am:

Songs i wish I'd written;

Memphis Tennessee - Chuck Berry
Sunny Afternoon - Ray Davies
The Baby's Mine & Wife Sitter - Swamp Dogg
Subteranean Homesick Blues - Bob Dylan (this cracks me up)
Just A mirage , Baby Don't Cry , Don't Look Back - Smokey etc
Everybody Is A Star - Sly
Chug A Lug & Dang Me - Roger Miller
Blackbird - McCartney
In My Life - Lennon


SteveK

By Eli (151.197.38.173) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 11:14 am:

I'll try something new

By Ritchie (62.254.0.9) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 11:31 am:

Actaully, there are many BAD songs I wish I'd written. Then, having seen how awful they were, I could have torn them up and spared everyone the agony of having to hear them!

By fayette (152.163.188.68) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 01:01 pm:

stubass i look like i may be smokey robinson's
kid sister

By STUBASS (206.135.204.2) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 03:16 pm:

WELL FAYETTE: QUIET AS IT'S KEPT...SMOKEY PROBABLY WOULD HAVE MADE A NICE LOOKING WOMAN...OF COURSE...HE'S A NICE LOOKING GUY TOO...I GUESS!!!...AND AS A WOMAN...HE PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE HAD TO CHANGE HIS VOICE REGISTER MUCH AT ALL!!!...STU

By Lynn Bruce (65.60.200.153) on Saturday, March 01, 2003 - 03:46 pm:

I wish I had written Jingle Bell rock and White Christmas.Every year for the rest of my life a big fat royalty check would be coming in after Christmas!!! I'd sure help make those Jag XKR payments.