Songs requested with wrong title

richtea · #1 02-24-2011, 11:41 PM

A friend of mine told me that he was asked for “Ivan the Tiger” by Survivor, at a gig (The B side to “Nelly the Elephant” I pressume).
He managed to keep a streight face. I dont think I could have.

I remember being asked for “white rhino” by the Pistols (White Riot, by the Clash, actually) a double fail. There have been others, but my memory is pretty usless these days. Any body got any more?

PJSShearer · #2 02-25-2011, 04:58 AM

So many,

Q: Do you know "Nero"?
A: Don't think so, how does it go?
"Billy don't be a Nero!" (Billy, don't be a HERO).

I actually worked with a Keytard who INSISTED "Get back" by the Beatles was called "Jo-Jo"
There was a drummer who called "I saw her standing there" - "Just 17"!!

Or the classic "first line" requests:

Look at me (Misty)
Memories (The way we were)

I'm sure there's others out there who can contribute...

T-Bird · #3 02-25-2011, 06:08 AM

Hi.

Not mine (I only wish), but on another thread a TBer told us a wino did request: "Slow Moving Walter, The Fire Engine Guy"

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Telling what the tune was, only spoils the joke I think.

Regards
Sam

Nev375 · #4 02-25-2011, 06:22 AM

Lotta younger kids at the bar I usually play. Once was requested to play "Sweet Home Alabama" so we played the Skynrd song. He said that was pretty cool but the lyrics were all wrong however we got the guitar riff right.

Turns out he wanted "All Summer Long" by Kid Rock

Wish we would've played "Werewolves of London" instead now. Woulda really blown his mind.

lbwdog · #5 02-25-2011, 06:31 AM

Had a request once for "Sand In The Clouds"

("Send In The Clowns" for you younger folk!)

lbwdog · #6 02-25-2011, 06:34 AM

Then there's the old hymn "Gladly, The Cross Eyed Bear"

irishryno · #7 02-25-2011, 06:46 AM

Big old red freightliner by Stevie Miller Band...really...

pedroims · #8 02-25-2011, 06:46 AM

One of my friends:

''Do you know that song from G'n'R that goes : I used to love her now I want tequila.....''

bassclef216 · #9 02-25-2011, 07:14 AM

The other day my friend and I were texting song ideas back and forth. He suggested we play Little Pink Houses by J.C.M. I said that I had never heard of it and would take a listen. Then when I looked it up...OF COURSE I had heard that song!....I just assumed it was called "America" or "Aint That America" or something like that. Felt pretty dumb...

BassChuck · #10 02-25-2011, 08:40 AM

'Cuse Me While I Kiss This Guy

pkmoor · #11 02-25-2011, 08:49 AM

My band leader (wedding band) is notorious for this stuff. Last week he asked us to learn "Fill My Glass" by Pink (real title is "Raise Your Glass").

burnunit · #12 02-25-2011, 08:50 AM

"Long Train Running" - I thought for years it was "Without Love"

HolmeBass · #13 02-25-2011, 08:52 AM

"There's a Bathroom on the Right" ("There's a Bad Moon On The Rise")

oh and one I do, although now I know it correctly, whenever I hear it I still hear: "Just like the one-winged dove..." Stevie Nick's "Edge Of Seventeen" (Just like the white-winged dove, sings a song...)

PJSShearer · #14 02-25-2011, 08:58 AM

I recall a bandleader I worked with (Pontins, Brean Sands) for a while once called "Trilogy"

My immediate thought was - hmm, don't think I could busk that 20 minute epic by Emerson, Lake and Palmer - so I asked him for clarification:

He meant "American Trilogy" - a 10 minute Epic by Elvis that I could busk!!.

Well it was a C&W week so I should really have guessed :-)

Richland123 · #15 02-25-2011, 09:29 AM

Lots of women ask if we play that song "The Electric Slide". The song is called "The Electric Boogie" and, thankfully, we do not play it. The line dance that was made up for the song is called The Electric Slide Dance.

sb69coupe · #16 02-25-2011, 10:16 AM

Here's a cocktail napkin request that we got at a gig. At least the gal who wrote it actually did know the real name of the Weezer tune.

KenHR · #17 02-25-2011, 10:30 AM

"Teenage Wasteland"

Heard it every day in my record store days, and have gotten requests to play it by that name many times over the years at shows....

eSmith · #18 02-25-2011, 10:43 AM

Ya SB69, she got the name right but the lyric wrong.

Wide. Not Wiped.

Can't get a male singer to do the tune after they read the words.

-eSmith.

sb69coupe · #19 02-25-2011, 10:53 AM

Nah, she got the lyric right for the way we do it. Each time through the chorus, our singer picks someone, either one of us in the band, or a friend in the crowd. Then, instead of singing "I've got my ass wide" she sings "John is an asswipe", or whoever she picked out.

The crowd really gets into it, trying to determine who she'll single out.

MooneyDriver · #20 02-25-2011, 11:03 AM

Lights - Journey
Go ask Alice - Jefferson Airplane