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Elton John — Tiny Dancer
Album: Madman Across The Water
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Released: 1971
Length: 6:11
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Blue jean baby, L.A. lady
Seamstress for the band
Pretty eyes, pirate smile
You'll marry a music man

Ballerina, you must have seen her
Dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me
Tiny dancer in my hand

Jesus freaks out in the street
Handing tickets out for God
Turning back, she just laughs
The boulevard is not that bad

Piano man, he makes his stand
In the auditorium
Looking on, she sings the song
The words she knows, the tune she hums

But, oh, how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you, and you can hear me
When I say softly, slowly

Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Blue jean baby, L.A. lady
Seamstress for the band
Pretty eyes, pirate smile
You'll marry a music man

Ballerina, you must have seen her
Dancing in the sand
And now she's in me, always with me
Tiny dancer in my hand

But, oh, how it feels so real
Lying here with no one near
Only you, and you can hear me
When I say softly, slowly

Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today

Hold me closer, tiny dancer
Count the headlights on the highway
Lay me down in sheets of linen
You had a busy day today
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This song never fails to remind me of my best friend :) I didn't know it until he played it in the car one day we were driving down from Germany to Switzerland. He was singing along, so animated, it's a great memory and now one of my favourite ! 
Posted 3 days ago by ChrisVIII    [ Reply ]
I have to admit, i never really tuned into this song until 'that scene' in almost famous... it's been my favorite EJ song ever since.
Posted 4 days ago by scrubbrush    [ Reply ]
Love Elton John!!
Posted 1 week ago by C.edwardjohnson08    [ Reply ]
Going to see him next month in Las Vegas, and I believe he's still playing this song! 
Posted 1 month ago by poetdancer    [ Reply ]
Mixed feelings on this one. first, it is a great song. second, happened at a not so good time.  I was 20 and totally faking it.
Posted 1 month ago by blkstd    [ Reply ]
Anyone else think the lyrics were, "hold me closer Tony Danza?"
Posted 1 month ago by MrStatenIsle    [ Reply ]
8->9
Posted 2 months ago by jlind    [ Reply ]
Hands up if you were singing along!
Posted 7 months ago by nevar23    [ Reply ]
What is it about (early) Elton John that is always such perfection when heard again? Knowing minds of great artists is just not for us mortals. We're just riding shotgun. And that's ok. I suppose. 
Posted 8 months ago by Grayson    [ Reply ]
Seeing Elton John in Oakland tonight!
Posted 8 months ago by poetdancer    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:
Actually, THIS was the film this song was originally scored for. It fit the soundtrack and the times perfectly. Aloha Bobby and Rose 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qX-uwMKd5k


 Interesting! Now I have to watch the movie.
But the song wasn't written for the movie, as far as I know. Bernie wrote it about his wife/girlfriend at the time.

IMDB shows TD 'uncredited', I guess the song was so well-known by then they didn't feel the need.

I wore the grooves off this record. Even lesser tracks like Rotten Peaches were way above everything else being written then.

c.

Posted 11 months ago by cc_rider    [ Reply ]
Wow! always loved this song! Holds up well.
Posted 11 months ago by Elroweho    [ Reply ]
 Baby_M wrote:
 Mackmoney3000 wrote:
Hold me closer, Tony Danza
 



"Count the head lice on the highway..."

 
 
{#Roflol}{#Clap}{#Dancingbanana_2}
Posted 1 year ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
So beautiful! {#Bananapiano}
Posted 1 year ago by pjlk    [ Reply ]
Goosebumps. Every single time.
Posted 1 year ago by grogg    [ Reply ]
This entire album is superb.  
Posted 2 years ago by Stefen    [ Reply ]
 DavidS_UK wrote:
Thank god this gets a regular airing, or else the brilliance of early Elton gets lost in all the later rhinestone and ridiculousness.  What a track... what an album.

 
Indeed. 

Highlow
American Net'Zen


Posted 2 years ago by Highlowsel    [ Reply ]
Actually, THIS was the film this song was originally scored for. It fit the soundtrack and the times perfectly. Aloha Bobby and Rose 
 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qX-uwMKd5k

Posted 2 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
Elton at his best.
Posted 2 years ago by nomnol    [ Reply ]
a masterpiece of poetry and piano

{#Heartkiss}
Posted 2 years ago by DocStrangelove    [ Reply ]


I can't hear this song without remembering this brilliant scene. And then I get all weepy and happy.
Posted 3 years ago by Steely_D    [ Reply ]
 Mackmoney3000 wrote:
Hold me closer, Tony Danza
 

Hold me closer! 

"Count the head lice on the highway..."


Posted 3 years ago by Baby_M    [ Reply ]
did Cameron Crowe and Penny Lane make it home okay?
Posted 3 years ago by Skydog    [ Reply ]
 Mackmoney3000 wrote:
Hold me closer, Tony Danza
 
Good one!!
Posted 3 years ago by NorthernLad    [ Reply ]
 amoreena wrote:

I still do this, but with headphones that would have cost my entire week's paycheck back then.  I'm not rich now, I just made next to nothing then.  But Madman still hits my heart, and helps when I"m confused, afraid and anxious as a grown up.

 
Amoreena

When it rains the rain falls down
Washing out the cattle town
Are you far away somewhere in your eiderdown
Do you dream of crystal streams?

Whoops, I digress.

Great post.

Here is a great version of a time when Elton and I were younger dudes...
Posted 3 years ago by NorthernLad    [ Reply ]
 On_The_Beach wrote:

Hopefully said madman is an Elton John fan!  ; )

 
And, He's across the water!
Posted 3 years ago by ajlept    [ Reply ]
 dboseman wrote:
I'm 14 again, confused afraid and anxious.  But when I lay down in my bed in the darkness and listen to this album through my Koss headphones, everything fades away.  Thanks EJ for helping me get through my adolescence. 

 
I still do this, but with headphones that would have cost my entire week's paycheck back then.  I'm not rich now, I just made next to nothing then.  But Madman still hits my heart, and helps when I"m confused, afraid and anxious as a grown up.
Posted 3 years ago by amoreena    [ Reply ]
This is MY Elton John.
Posted 4 years ago by meatmike    [ Reply ]
 dboseman wrote:
I'm 14 again, confused afraid and anxious.  But when I lay down in my bed in the darkness and listen to this album through my Koss headphones, everything fades away.  Thanks EJ for helping me get through my adolescence. 

 

Koss?  I thought you were a Bose man.


Posted 4 years ago by Hannio    [ Reply ]
 sweet_annie wrote:
When my daughter was younger, we held hands and danced and spun each other to this song.  A special memory.  She's 25 now.

 
Don't ever lose that memory. Beautiful. 
Posted 4 years ago by OlderGentleman    [ Reply ]
Hold me closer, Tony Danza
Posted 4 years ago by Mackmoney3000    [ Reply ]
When my daughter was younger, we held hands and danced and spun each other to this song.  A special memory.  She's 25 now.
Posted 4 years ago by sweet_annie    [ Reply ]
Every time I hear this song I think of a good friend of mine telling me about what this song represents to him as we were driving away for the week-end. Each note brings me back to those minutes in his car and how I learned a bit more about him. It's a nice memory and I like the song for that ( beside the fact that the song itself is beautiful ). 

 
Posted 4 years ago by ChrisVIII    [ Reply ]
Makes me just the right kind of sad.
 
Posted 4 years ago by znavot    [ Reply ]
{#Bananajam}
Posted 4 years ago by Peter_Bradshaw    [ Reply ]
{#Bananajumprope}
Posted 5 years ago by Karhu    [ Reply ]
{#Daisy}{#Bananapiano}{#Daisy}
Posted 5 years ago by paradisepig    [ Reply ]
 dboseman wrote:
I'm 14 again, confused afraid and anxious.  But when I lay down in my bed in the darkness and listen to this album through my Koss headphones, everything fades away.  Thanks EJ for helping me get through my adolescence. 

 
perfect. 
Posted 5 years ago by Garyohh    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
♫{#Sunny}♫

 
Bump.
Posted 5 years ago by colt4x5    [ Reply ]
 DavidS_UK wrote:
Thank god this gets a regular airing, or else the brilliance of early Elton gets lost in all the later rhinestone and ridiculousness.  What a track... what an album.

 
Amen.
Posted 5 years ago by colt4x5    [ Reply ]
Ya what he said. 
dboseman wrote:
I'm 14 again, confused afraid and anxious.  But when I lay down in my bed in the darkness and listen to this album through my Koss headphones, everything fades away.  Thanks EJ for helping me get through my adolescence. 

 


Posted 5 years ago by michaelc    [ Reply ]
I'm 14 again, confused afraid and anxious.  But when I lay down in my bed in the darkness and listen to this album through my Koss headphones, everything fades away.  Thanks EJ for helping me get through my adolescence. 
Posted 5 years ago by dboseman    [ Reply ]
Thank god this gets a regular airing, or else the brilliance of early Elton gets lost in all the later rhinestone and ridiculousness.  What a track... what an album.
Posted 5 years ago by DavidS_UK    [ Reply ]
From this album to Captain Fantastic and then YBR, my god he is a god!!
Posted 5 years ago by molson    [ Reply ]
 thewiseking wrote:
Used much more effectively in Aloha Bobby and Rose, a perfect 70's time capsule all filmed during the period in question.
If you were to ask anybody who grew up in the '70s they'd tell ya, Almost Famous wasn't it.
 
Agreed. Seems like everyone I know loves Almost Famous, but for me it just didn't work. I was always aware that I was watching actors act, in their 70s wardrobe; it never felt real to me. The Tiny Dancer scene in particular. As soon as I heard the opening notes I knew we were in for the obligatory, feel-good singalong scene. Ack. Great song though!
Posted 5 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
 coloradojohn wrote:
I rather agree with Bill's assessment of Elton's early works! Exquisite, surreal, blessedly rich in velvety quantum layers from start to finish.

 
...... agree, that sums it up very well
Posted 5 years ago by Peter_Bradshaw    [ Reply ]
 stevendejong wrote:

Second that. Wonderful movie that you can sit and watch with your ex-hippie Dad. Then, wait for the stories.

 
Used much more effectively in Aloha Bobby and Rose, a perfect 70's time capsule all filmed during the period in question.

If you were to ask anybody who grew up in the '70s they'd tell ya, Almost Famous wasn't it.


Posted 5 years ago by thewiseking    [ Reply ]
I rather agree with Bill's assessment of Elton's early works! Exquisite, surreal, blessedly rich in velvety quantum layers from start to finish.
Posted 5 years ago by coloradojohn    [ Reply ]
he was SOOOOO good in those early years...  

him, Chicago, Billy Joel, Kenny Loggins   great early work and then.........  

Edit: yes Bill, this one needs to be listened to the album as a whole, side 1, flip side 2
Posted 5 years ago by GawgaBoy    [ Reply ]
First albulm I ever bought...still get goosebumps everytime I hear it, maybe now more than ever before.  : / Perfection?!  ;)
Posted 5 years ago by coolpeople_rule    [ Reply ]
One of my all-time favorite tunes.  Great way to start the day.
Posted 5 years ago by diannemck56    [ Reply ]
great song off a great album
Posted 5 years ago by gjr    [ Reply ]
 stevendejong wrote:

Second that. Wonderful movie that you can sit and watch with your ex-hippie Dad. Then, wait for the stories.

 

Thirds on the first comment and seconds on the above. 
Posted 5 years ago by scrubbrush    [ Reply ]
 fredriley wrote:
Ah, it's our Reg from Pinner, life prez of Watford FC:

Watford FC crest

You 'Orns! :o)

 

You're not a Forest fan?    All in fir forest.           all in for firest
Posted 6 years ago by unclehud    [ Reply ]
 lshinkawa wrote:

That scene completely changed this song for me.  I love it so much more now.

 
Second that. Wonderful movie that you can sit and watch with your ex-hippie Dad. Then, wait for the stories.
Posted 6 years ago by stevendejong    [ Reply ]
From Wiki: "Elton John has also used Vicarage Road as a venue for concerts. He first played at the stadium in 1974, and returned in 2005 and 2010 to stage fundraising concerts for the club." Vicarage Road is Watford's stadium. Good side last season. Just missed promotion, eh?
Posted 6 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
Ah, it's our Reg from Pinner, life prez of Watford FC:

Watford FC crest

You 'Orns! :o)
Posted 6 years ago by fredriley    [ Reply ]
Thank you for keeping Elton's good era alive.
Posted 6 years ago by fiddler    [ Reply ]
 Highlowsel wrote:
To my mind this entire album is arguably the best work Elton John and Bernie Taupin put out over the course of their career. 

Just sayin'.

Highlow
American Net'Zen

 
I totally agree Highlow!
Posted 6 years ago by meadowwoods    [ Reply ]
To my mind this entire album is arguably the best work Elton John and Bernie Taupin put out over the course of their career. 

Just sayin'.

Highlow
American Net'Zen
Posted 6 years ago by Highlowsel    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
No one will ever know how close I came to giving up tonight - and then this song came on, and I'm crying, but I can't give up. I guess there really is a supreme being who reaches down and rescues us when we just don't feel like we have another breath to breathe.

I'll be okay. I'm just really, really tired, but nowhere near as tired as others who've posted at the journals. This song will always be my bright light - that one that beckons me towards a more positive place.

Thanks, whoever uploaded it. You may have saved my life tonight, in a convoluted way.
 

Miss you so much, Cynaera...

love this song...


Posted 6 years ago by Lazarus    [ Reply ]
Are you suggesting QEII should have made him ''Dame Elton John''?

 rtrudeau wrote:
Elton was so good before he became "sir."
 


Posted 6 years ago by ThePoose    [ Reply ]
 Papasmeg wrote:
Elton was so so good back in this period. Memories are made of songs like this.
 
I'm beginning to agree. I really must listen to some more of his older stuff. I've tended to ignore him due to his later output.


Posted 6 years ago by jt1    [ Reply ]
maybe a 1000 out of 10 !!!!{#Angel}
Posted 6 years ago by egsstaff    [ Reply ]
Love it, but I can't get over him singing at Rush Limbaugh's wedding.
Posted 6 years ago by coachc    [ Reply ]
Elton was so so good back in this period. Memories are made of songs like this.
Posted 6 years ago by Papasmeg    [ Reply ]
 Bacadiar wrote:
Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
 
Count the head lice on the highway.
Posted 6 years ago by ziggytrix    [ Reply ]
 haljordan wrote:
Sure, it was in Almost Famous, but what about that episode of WKRP in Cincinnati?
 

Hear, Hear!!  Named my daughter after Bailey Quarters.{#Clap}
Posted 6 years ago by jmassoglia    [ Reply ]

My college cafeteria in Brooklyn had a great juke box and though I didn't play I used to hang out there at lunch with the school's hockey team.

One time, when Tiny Dancer came on, one of the team's really tough guys (I believe he led the league in penalty minutes) got up on the cafeteria table and began to sing along to this sweet beautiful love song at the top of his lungs.

People knew who was at the table - and knew how tough Pete was - so no one dared make fun of this big guy singing this sweet song.

It helped me understand how an appreciate for art, music and sensitive emotional issues like love was not at all incompatible with being a so called "manly man."


Posted 7 years ago by lemmoth    [ Reply ]
Sure, it was in Almost Famous, but what about that episode of WKRP in Cincinnati?
Posted 7 years ago by haljordan    [ Reply ]
My last gf hated Elton John... I tried playing this album while driving slow through downtown Montreal. She told me to just put it down, yeah, I had the window open and her inadequate stereo on full blast. She has dumped me. So, thanks, RP. Thanks Sir Elton, its loud as I listen...

Songs are not just silly things. This one hits me right in my teenaged heart. Now, I remember... and will be looking for my tiny dancer for ever.
Posted 7 years ago by Blastcat900    [ Reply ]
 agkagk wrote:

You gave this a 7?

10.
 

You gave this a 10? 

crap. . . 10 it is, can't find the 11. . .
 


Posted 7 years ago by vandal    [ Reply ]
 Moonflower31 wrote:
bus ride: Almost Famous....
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Qn3tel9FWU
Posted 7 years ago by Byronape    [ Reply ]
{#Daisy} Luv Sir Elton.

Posted 7 years ago by shellbella    [ Reply ]
 Stratocaster wrote:
If a madman held a gun to my head and said "what is your favourite song? you MUST pick one!".

It would be Tiny Dancer.

In fact, I'd even pick it without the gun. 
 
Hopefully said madman is an Elton John fan!  ; )


Posted 7 years ago by On_The_Beach    [ Reply ]
Hold me closer, Tony Danza.
Posted 7 years ago by Bacadiar    [ Reply ]
If a madman held a gun to my head and said "what is your favourite song? you MUST pick one!".

It would be Tiny Dancer.

In fact, I'd even pick it without the gun. 
Posted 7 years ago by Stratocaster    [ Reply ]
His best album, before he morphed into a cross between Liberace and Wayne Newton. 
Posted 7 years ago by ozzie1313    [ Reply ]
 osbyec wrote:


Your love is like baaaaaad venison/Bad venison is what I need
 
LMAO. Cannot be topped. 

The more I hear of Elton's older stuff, the more I'm impressed. (Never really paid attention to him in his heyday). But this is one of those songs that FM radio simply beat. to. death. Sadly, I can't recall the scene in "Almost  Famous" with this song, although really liked the movie.

Yes, Bob, it was a good movie. 


Posted 8 years ago by kcar    [ Reply ]
♫{#Sunny}♫
Posted 8 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
 Moonflower31 wrote:
bus ride: Almost Famous....
 
That scene completely changed this song for me.  I love it so much more now.
Posted 8 years ago by lshinkawa    [ Reply ]
bus ride: Almost Famous....
Posted 8 years ago by Moonflower31    [ Reply ]
My heart is ♫ joyous ♫ in hearing this song... and sad, at how Elton got lost later on.
Posted 8 years ago by jadewahoo    [ Reply ]
 ScottFromWyoming wrote:
I gave this a 4?
 
7.
 


You gave this a 7?

10.
Posted 8 years ago by agkagk    [ Reply ]
 WonderLizard wrote:
My favorite LOL commercial from the Super Bowl: the Bud arrives and a saloonful of hard bitten cowboys launch into "Tiny Dancer."
 
Hillarious!  I was like....wtf?  Now I get it!

Posted 8 years ago by cohifi    [ Reply ]
My favorite LOL commercial from the Super Bowl: the Bud arrives and a saloonful of hard bitten cowboys launch into "Tiny Dancer."
Posted 8 years ago by WonderLizard    [ Reply ]
this is such a fantastic album over all.  One of EJ's best, imo.  Madman Across the Water (the song) is beyond words. 
Posted 8 years ago by Rooney    [ Reply ]

love - Love - LOVE it!!  {#Bounce}


Posted 8 years ago by diannemck56    [ Reply ]
 bknv wrote:

{#Lol}  Randy Bachman has a show called Vinyl Tap, each week a different theme.  From https://www.randysvinyltap.com, he describes the show on  Mondegreeens:
"This week on Vinyl Tap Randy Bachman will turn his attention away from guitars and onto another key part of a song... the lyrics. Only in this case it will be miss-heard lyrics. And even better... miss-heard lyrics as submitted by Tap listeners. In print or spoken word they are called malapropisms or spoonerisms. Sometimes the words and letters get all mixed up by accident, sometimes it's intentional. The accepted musical term is a mondegreen. The term was coined by writer Sylvia Wright who recalled a poem called "The Bonny Earl O'Murray"... she remembered the final two lines of the first stanza as "they hae slain the Earl Amurray and Lady Mondegreen". In fact the poet wrote "... and laid him on the green". And so begins an entire episode of Vinyl Tap. It's pretty amazing to hear what some people thought those pop singers were saying in tunes by The Band, Eurythmics, Kiss, Maria Muldaur and Creedence Clearwater Revival among many. "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" and tune in to the Tap this week. "
 

Your love is like baaaaaad venison/Bad venison is what I need
Posted 8 years ago by osbyec    [ Reply ]
Yes! Almost Famous!

This is a great song... how can you not nod along to this tune...
Posted 9 years ago by choderama    [ Reply ]
Love this song!
Posted 9 years ago by Rp10v3r    [ Reply ]

Russell Hammond: I never said I was a golden god... or did I?


Posted 9 years ago by LPCity    [ Reply ]
 Cynaera wrote:
No one will ever know how close I came to giving up tonight - and then this song came on, and I'm crying, but I can't give up. I guess there really is a supreme being who reaches down and rescues us when we just don't feel like we have another breath to breathe.

I'll be okay. I'm just really, really tired, but nowhere near as tired as others who've posted at the journals. This song will always be my bright light - that one that beckons me towards a more positive place.

Thanks, whoever uploaded it. You may have saved my life tonight, in a convoluted way. {#Smile}
 
Try Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy for "Some one saved my Life tonight"!

Hang in there, we all have our bad days, bad ways, life goes astray.{#Wave}

Posted 9 years ago by horstman    [ Reply ]
No one will ever know how close I came to giving up tonight - and then this song came on, and I'm crying, but I can't give up. I guess there really is a supreme being who reaches down and rescues us when we just don't feel like we have another breath to breathe.

I'll be okay. I'm just really, really tired, but nowhere near as tired as others who've posted at the journals. This song will always be my bright light - that one that beckons me towards a more positive place.

Thanks, whoever uploaded it. You may have saved my life tonight, in a convoluted way. {#Smile}
Posted 9 years ago by Cynaera    [ Reply ]
I gave this a 4?
 
7.
Posted 9 years ago by ScottFromWyoming    [ Reply ]
A great album right in the middle of a great period of work from 1970-1972...  Tumbleweed Connection, 11-17-70, Madman and then Honky Chateau: you really do not need much more in your collection.

I love Holliday Inn form Madman Across the Water: let's get that one played.

Posted 9 years ago by jersey_birdman    [ Reply ]
Can't hear this without thinking of Lily34.... ♫ Hold me close, I'm tired of dancing ♫...
Posted 9 years ago by donna_birichina    [ Reply ]
Elton John, Bernie Taupin, and Gus Dudgeon at their Best. Still play this whole album often.
Posted 9 years ago by oldman    [ Reply ]
 Mandible wrote:

 

rotflmao!
Posted 9 years ago by Tagish_girl    [ Reply ]
he was pretty good before he became famous for silly glasses
Posted 9 years ago by michaelc    [ Reply ]
 h8rhater wrote:

Your hopes sure do run contrary to the RP vibe.  This song totally fits here.

 

Sure.
Posted 9 years ago by Lrobby99    [ Reply ]

Posted 9 years ago by Mandible    [ Reply ]
 Lrobby99 wrote:

Just what I hoped to never hear on RP. Score 1 Sucko-barfo.


 
Your hopes sure do run contrary to the RP vibe.  This song totally fits here.

Posted 9 years ago by h8rhater    [ Reply ]
Saw him at Kent State right when this album came out. He did walk his piano across the floor, but he didn't dress up in crazy outfits yet (hadn't come out yet). Great show!

And I so love this scene in Almost Famous!
Posted 9 years ago by hippiechick    [ Reply ]

Just what I hoped to never hear on RP. Score 1 Sucko-barfo.


Posted 9 years ago by Lrobby99    [ Reply ]
Yay!{#Dancingbanana} Don't hear enough good ol' Elton round here IMO!{#Snooty}
Posted 9 years ago by sirdroseph    [ Reply ]
easily a 9/10 even if you don't like Elton John.  Amazing song.
Posted 9 years ago by superflyLD    [ Reply ]
This album is Elton John and Bernie Taupin at their best.
Posted 9 years ago by Stefen    [ Reply ]
Gosh, I've been gone for awhile.  It's nice to hear a great classic like this Elton John tune.  At the time, I thought it pretty fluffy, but with the years and a different retrospective, I now hear a different song.  Good choice, Bill!
Posted 9 years ago by Ericac    [ Reply ]
Great set, Bill.
Elton John - Tiny Dancer
Martha Wainwright - Don't Forget
Great Lake Swimmers - Your Rocky Spine
Posted 9 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
 accordionista wrote:
Hold me closer, Tony Danza!
 
LOL!! {#Roflol} Now I can never listen to this song again without hearing that!

Posted 9 years ago by eruwenolorien    [ Reply ]
 toterola wrote:
This one's been a favorite of mine since it came out. I always think about the bus scene from "Almost Famous" when they all sing this, anymore.

Wonderful tune. {#Clap}
 

A great scene in my all-time favorite movie!  Love this song; always have, always will.
Posted 9 years ago by osbyec    [ Reply ]

Love the line "Jesus freaks out in the street, handing tickets out for God"


Posted 9 years ago by Mandible    [ Reply ]
Does this make anyone else think of WKRP in Cincinnatti?
Posted 10 years ago by haljordan    [ Reply ]
 Smoove_D wrote:
Tony Danza

Angela!
 
{#Lol}  Randy Bachman has a show called Vinyl Tap, each week a different theme.  From https://www.randysvinyltap.com, he describes the show on  Mondegreeens:
"This week on Vinyl Tap Randy Bachman will turn his attention away from guitars and onto another key part of a song... the lyrics. Only in this case it will be miss-heard lyrics. And even better... miss-heard lyrics as submitted by Tap listeners. In print or spoken word they are called malapropisms or spoonerisms. Sometimes the words and letters get all mixed up by accident, sometimes it's intentional. The accepted musical term is a mondegreen. The term was coined by writer Sylvia Wright who recalled a poem called "The Bonny Earl O'Murray"... she remembered the final two lines of the first stanza as "they hae slain the Earl Amurray and Lady Mondegreen". In fact the poet wrote "... and laid him on the green". And so begins an entire episode of Vinyl Tap. It's pretty amazing to hear what some people thought those pop singers were saying in tunes by The Band, Eurythmics, Kiss, Maria Muldaur and Creedence Clearwater Revival among many. "Excuse me while I kiss this guy" and tune in to the Tap this week. "


Posted 10 years ago by bknv    [ Reply ]
 toterola wrote:
This one's been a favorite of mine since it came out. I always think about the bus scene from "Almost Famous" when they all sing this, anymore.
 
Shows my age, I guess, but this song always reminds me of the 1975 Floyd Mutrux/Paul LeMat tour-de-force Aloha Bobby and Rose.

Posted 10 years ago by lmic    [ Reply ]
Great song. Now, never, never play it again. {#Pray}
Posted 10 years ago by crockydile    [ Reply ]
I miss Elton of the 70's.
Posted 10 years ago by dboseman    [ Reply ]

 toterola wrote:
This one's been a favorite of mine since it came out. I always think about the bus scene from "Almost Famous" when they all sing this, anymore.

Wonderful tune. {#Clap}
 
Great scene for sure, and song!


Posted 10 years ago by grungepuppy    [ Reply ]
Yes !
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