Songs with a spelling lession

[GreenHornet]

Can't sleep so am watching VH1 classic and I have notice something I really hate songs that spell out words I think I came up with that when a old sing called:
C*I*T*Y by someone I never heard of so I thought to myself to think of songs that spell that I like and dislike and would like some input.

Dislike:
YMCA (By you know who)
C*I*T*Y ( some skinny little dude that should roll up his armless sleeves)
R E S P E C T ( sorry ladies I can't stand the song)
D I V O R C E ( hate the song understand why it happens)
R O C K ( by Helix or something like that a rare hairband song I hate)



I Like:
None I can't stand to be spelled to me if someone knows of a good spelling song please jump in

[Albert]

B-A-Bay
"The Three Stooges"

Written By: Unknown
Copyright Unknown

B A Bay, B E Bee
B I Bickie Bye B O Bo
Bickie Bye Bo B U Boo
Bickie Bye Bo Boo

C A Say, C E See
C I Sickie Sye C O So
Sickie Sye So C U Soo
Sickie Sye So Soo

D A Day, D E Dee
D I Dickie Dye D O Doe
Dickie Dye Doe D U Do
Dickie Dye Doe Do

F A Fay, F E Fee
F I Fickie Fye F O Foe
Fickie Fye Foe F U Foo
Fickie Fye Foe Foo

(etc.)

What's not to love?

[Ontir]

Method of Modern Love Hall & Oates

"M-e-t-h-o-d Method of Modern love..."

Diamoonds & Pearls Prince

"D to the I to the A to the M to the O to the N to the D to the Pearls of Love..."

[jessecuster3]

Method of Modern Love Hall & Oates

"M-e-t-h-o-d Method of Modern love..."


Chorus:
M-E-T-H-O-D-O-F-L-O-V-E
It's a method of modern love


get it right man ! :)

[Ontir]

I'm barely awake. :p (It's just 8 in LA, and I don't have to be anywhere until 1.) Thanks for the correction.

[Lubichev]

The thread title is so ironic. Like rain on your wedding day.

[jessecuster3]

How did we miss:

R.O.C.K in the USA - John Mellencamp


or even for the cheesier of us,
Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani

Everyone sing along: B-A-N-A-N-A-S, the S**T is bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S

[GreenHornet]

Method of Modern Love Hall & Oates

"M-e-t-h-o-d Method of Modern love..."

Diamoonds & Pearls Prince

"D to the I to the A to the M to the O to the N to the D to the Pearls of Love..."



Is it a like or dis-like for you those songs

[GreenHornet]

[QUOTE=Albert]B-A-Bay
"The Three Stooges"

Written By: Unknown
Copyright Unknown

B A Bay, B E Bee
B I Bickie Bye B O Bo
Bickie Bye Bo B U Boo
Bickie Bye Bo Boo

That goes in my LIKE list. How can you not like a song w/ the Strooges dress has college profs singing to (hot in their day) CO-EDS,dancing around the campus amd making instruments out of anything they grab!?!

[GreenHornet]

How did we miss:

R.O.C.K in the USA - John Mellencamp


or even for the cheesier of us,
Hollaback Girl - Gwen Stefani

Everyone sing along: B-A-N-A-N-A-S, the S**T is bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-S

2 words = Double Groan................ grooooooaaan

[Ontir]

I like the songs I listed. I screwed up because I was barely conscious when I typed the post, but I like them.

[C.O. Jones]

G-L-O-R-I-A by The Doors

[Albert]

That goes in my LIKE list. How can you not like a song w/ the Strooges dress has college profs singing to (hot in their day) CO-EDS,dancing around the campus amd making instruments out of anything they grab!?!

Sointinly... its in my like column as well. I should have made that more clear. And if you ask me, those co-eds are still pretty damn hot looking.

Another one in my like column... L-O-L-A Lola La La My Lola

[Spastic Minnow]

Because XTC was never too picky about spelling ;)

Your Dictionary:

H-A-T-E
Is that how you spell love in your dictionary
K-I-C-K
Pronounced as kind
F-U-C-K
Is that how you spell friend in your dictionary
Black on black
A guidebook for the blind

.....

S-L-A-P
Is that how you spell kiss in your dictionary
C-O-L-D
Pronounced as care
S-H-I-T
Is that how you spelt me in your dictionary
Four-eyed fool
You led 'round everywhere

....

[DDM]

D-I-V-O-R-C-E by Tammy Wynette
A,B,C...by the Eurythmics
B-Side Ourselves by Siouxsie & the Banshees

[DDM]

R E S P E C T ( sorry ladies I can't stand the song)






"Respect" is written & originally recorded by Otis Redding in 1967. However, Aretha Franklin turned it into a hit a few years later. I'm sure Otis Redding did not mind his royalty checks from the song over the years...

[howyadoin]

Not exactly what you're askin', but how about "I Love You Period" by Dan Baird?

Back when I was goin' to school,
I never learned a thing
All I did was daydream,
a-waitin' for the bell to ring
I had a certain teacher,
I always tried to impress her
When she stood up in the classroom,
I would mentally undress her
Then one day I decided,
that I would write a little letter
She said the spellin' was a masterpiece,
the punctuation could be better
I understood what she was saying,
I got the gist of her sentiment
She said "I don't mean to be degrading,
"but here's the way that it should've went:"

Chorus) I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses
I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses

Right on up to high school,
people said I was a writin' fool
All my letters became really great,
with punctuation that was never late
But I was havin' trouble meetin' girls,
I never knew the things to say
Soon I had 'em all overwhelmed,
when they heard me talk this way, like this:

Chorus) I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses
I love you period
Do you love me question mark
Please, please exclamation point
I want to hold you in parentheses

[DDM]

ABC by the Jackson Five

[Dan Apodaca]

S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y

























Night!

[C.O. Jones]

'I'm A Man' by Muddy Waters

'I spell M-A-N'

Or is it called 'Mannish Boy'?

[Clint Barton]

"Well come along all you big, strong men. Uncle Sam needs your help again. He's got himself in a heck of a jam. Way down yonder in Viet-Nam...."

I can't believe a spelling song thread without Country Joe and The Fish.

[TomGun13]

Dan beat me to it but I'll say it again.

Saturday Night-Bay City Rollers
American Woman-The Guess Who. Its on the album version, the bluesy intro.

[Patient Boy]

Every single Fabolous song.

[Adam Crocker]

"Respect" is written & originally recorded by Otis Redding in 1967. However, Aretha Franklin turned it into a hit a few years later. I'm sure Otis Redding did not mind his royalty checks from the song over the years...

Or the eight months or so that he was alive after the song was released.

[glue]

What do they spelll in "YMCA"? Or are we just calling any singing of letters to be spelling?


Anyway, Patient Boy said what I first thought of when I saw the thread.

[Ontir]

YMCA or the Young Men's Christian Association is an abbrevitation, not a spelling lesson. If the world were referring to it is "imca," then it'd work, but no.

[Reptisaurus!]

'I'm A Man' by Muddy Waters

'I spell M-A-N'

Or is it called 'Mannish Boy'?

The latter. There is a song called "I'm a Man" from about the same time period--and, well, sharing most of the same lyrics -- but the version I've got of "I'm a Man" doesn't have the spelling parts.

Also, your spelling is whack, dude. Man is spelled "M-A-ooohchil'-N."

P.S. I am a C. I am a C-H.

[elheffe]

sigh I guess it's up to me to mention the B-a-n-a-n-a-s from Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl"

[Pinball]

sigh I guess it's up to me to mention the B-a-n-a-n-a-s from Gwen Stefani's "Hollaback Girl"
Wot, again? jessecuster2 already did, previous page.



In the "so bad it's great" category...
EM! EYE! DOUBLE ES EYE DOUBLE ES EYE DOUBLE PEE EYE!
by the Godz.
the only song they ever spelled correctly.:D

[Spastic Minnow]

A couple from They Might Be Giants

Don't Let's Start

D, world Destruction
O -ver an Overture
N, do I Need apostraphe
T, need this Torture

S-E-X-X-Y

There she is
Standing on the bed
Cookie in one hand, wig on her head
S-E-X-X-Y

X because it's extra baby
Y because it's extra baby


of course, they've since done an entire children's album called "Here Come the ABC's"... but I think I can skip songs from that one.

[Ontir]

"I'm a Woman, W-O-M-A-N"

[Spastic Minnow]

Squirrel Nut Zippers "Hell"

Now the D and the A and the M and the N and the A and the T and the I, O, N
Lose your face, lose your name
Then get fitted for a suit of flame!

[Jonathan Bogart]

"Rag Mop" was a hit in the '40s; there were several competing versions in the charts. The Ames Brothers' version is the one canonized by Google.

"M
I say M-O
M-O-P
M-O-P-P
Mop
M-O-P-P
Mop, mop, mop, mop

R
I say R-A
R-A-G
R-A-G-G
Rag
R-A-G-G M-O-P-P
Rag mop

Doo-doo-doo-dah-dee-ah-dah
Rag mop
Doo-doo-doo-dah-dee-ah-dah
Rag mop
Doo-doo-doo-dah-dee-ah-dah
Rag mop
Doo-doo-doo-dah-dee-ah-dah
Rag mop
Doo-doo-doo-dah-dee-ah-dah
R-A-G-G M-O-P-P
Rag mop"

Allan Sherman did a parody version called "Rat Fink" that I think is actually better. (The original was already little better than a novelty song anyway.)

Does "The Name Game" by Shirley Ellis count?

"Gloria (G-L-O-R-I-A)" was by Them, a mid-60s Irish garage band featuring Van Morrison as the lead singer and songwriter.

And, of course, someone should write a song instructing everyone on the difference between the spellings and meanings of the words "lesson" and "lesion."