Fun Music Information -> Guess Who
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Band Name Origins:
- Canadian bands in the '60s had trouble getting noticed in their own country, let alone in the U.S. The band's label sought to overcome that by issuing a single under the name, "Guess Who?" to create a rumor that the band was secretly the Beatles. The strategy worked, giving the group its first hit in Canada and the U.S. No one could quibble with success and so Guess Who it was. (Source: John Einarson's "American Woman: The Story of the Guess Who") Submitted by: Greg G.
Why the Name is Stupid:
- I don't know, who? It is hard to talk about a song they sung, it doesn't sound right when you say: The Guess Who sung American Women Submitted by: Billy Florio
New Band Names:
New Name | Why It's Better | Submitter Name |
| We Already Know | They've been around long enough to be known well. | Martha Hankins |
Better Names for Current Songs:
Original Song Name | New Song Name | Submitter Name |
| "Italian Woman" | "American Woman" | Frog face the second |
| "Ballad That Lasts Five Years" | "Ballad of the Last Five Years" | Disco 3:16 |
| "Laugh-In" | "Laughing" | rocky |
| "No Clocks" | "No Time" | rocky |
| "Ukranian Woman" | "American Woman" | Cody |
There are additional new song names available. | ||
Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | Comments & Submittor Name |
| "I Started A Joke" | "Laughing," Guess Who | Kathy |
| "Mine All Mine" | "Share The Land," Guess Who | Peter |
| "Lady, What's Your Name" | "Albert Flasher," The Guess Who | FussBudget |
| "Laughing" | "I Second That Emotion," Smokey Robinson & The Miracles | Rockin' Rye |
Remove a Letter From a Song Title:
"No Tie" originally "No Time"
Mark Richardson
"No Tim" originally "No Time"
Teacher, I think Tim's playing hooky.
Peter
Add a Letter To a Song Title:
"Brain Dance" originally "Rain Dance"
Peter
"No Timex" originally "No Time"
Peter
"No Timer" originally "No Time"
Peter
Change a Letter In a Song Title:
"Shake the Land" originally "Share the Land"
Lousy earthquakes...!
hec
"Shavin' All Over" originally "Shakin' All Over"
The introductory song to metrosexuality?
Josh
Song Parodies:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "Undun" | "Your Fly's Undone" | Alvin Rhodes |
| "American Woman" | "Celibate Woman" | Lionel Mertens |
| "No Time" | "No Rhymes Left Unskewed" | Alvin Rhodes |
| "No Time" | "No Wards!" | Lionel Mertens |
| "American Woman" | "Republican Moron" | William Tong |
| "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" | "No Supper Tonight/New Dietician" | Steve Kalafut |
| "Undun" | "Unfun" | Alvin Rhodes |
| "Rain Dance" | "Pain Dance" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "Laughing" | "Crapping" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "No Time" | "No Time ( The Executioner Song)" | Malcolm Higgins |
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Untapped Commercial Ideas:
Song Name | Product | Submittor |
| Laughing | TBS | oldrock |
| No Time | H&R Block | Primal Concrete Sledge |
| These Eyes | LensCrafters | NickZ |
Bad Choices for On Hold Music:
Song Name | Company/Organization | Submittor |
| American Woman | Foreign Mail Order Bride Service | Andrew Lourey |
| No Time | INS/USCIS Immigrations | Josh |
| Rain Dance | Weather Bureau | FussBudgetVanPelt |
| Undun | Crisis Counseling Center | JesusGeek |
| No Sugar Tonight | Diabetic help line | Legion |
| There are additional on hold music ideas available. | ||
Duets Not Yet Performed:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| Beat It Michael Jackson | Albert Flasher Guess Who | Beat It, Albert Flasher! | hybrid |
| Dude Looks Like A Lady Aerosmith | Green-Eyed Lady The Guess Who | Dude Looks Like A Green-Eyed Lady | Raphael |
| No Milk Today Herman's Hermits | No Sugar Tonight The Guess Who | No Milk Today, No Sugar Tonight Someone has some grocery shopping to do! | Raphael |
| She Said Cold | No Sugar Tonight Guess Who | She Said, 'No Sugar Tonight' | Josh |
| There are additional duets that haven't been done yet available. | |||
If Groups Combined, Their Names Might Be :
Twisted Guesser
Twisted Sister combined with The Guess Who
Submitted By: Anonymous Bob
Guess Who's Who
The Guess Who combined with The Who
They all look the same!
Submitted By: B.C.
Guess Who? U 2 !!
Guess Who combined with U2
Submitted By: Rob
Guess Who's Naked
The Guess Who combined with Naked Eyes
It's Me!!
Submitted By: Rob
There are additional Combined Groups that haven't been done yet available.
Misheard Lyrics:
"Albert Flasher"
Misheard Lyrics: I was a workshop owner with guns for the people.
Original Lyrics: I was a workshop owner in the gulch for the people.
| "American Woman"
Misheard Lyrics: Goodbye, American woman
Goodbye, American s***. Original Lyrics: Goodbye, American woman
Goodbye, American chick. |
"Albert Flasher"
Misheard Lyrics: And Micheal was a movie maker.
Original Lyrics: And Michael was a moonbeam maker.
| "Runnin' Back To Saskatoon"
Misheard Lyrics: This tune is homegrown
Don't come from Hog Town. Original Lyrics: This tune is homegrown
Don't come from Hong Kong. |
| There are additional misheard lyrics available. | |
Misheard Lyrics Story:
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"These Eyes"
Misheard Lyrics: Sew curtains on me, yeah!
Original Lyrics: The hurtin' on me, yeah
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Story about this misheard lyric by: JD My friend and I used to cruise around with this guy who would sing this lyric LOUDLY whenever "These Eyes" played on the radio. We tried to keep from cracking up, because he was the only one with a car. |
| There are additional misheard stories available. | |
Song Parody Fragments:
"No Time"
Better Lyrics:
No more soup for you
Original Lyrics:
No time left for you
Submitted by: oldtimes
"American Women"
Better Lyrics:
Hillary Clinton, stay away from New York,
Hillary Clinton, go back to Arkensas
Hillary Clinton, go back to Arkensas
Original Lyrics:
American Women, stay away from me,
American women, mama's gotta be free
American women, mama's gotta be free
Submitted by: Mike Florio
Repetitive Lyrics:
"American Woman"
The Repetitive Lyrics: Gonna leave you woman...
Gonna leave you woman... Bye-bye...Bye-bye... Why They're Repetitive: So go already!!! What are you still hangin' around singing for? Shut up and leave!
Submitted by: mysticrose
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Insulting Lyrics:
"American Woman"
The Insulting Lyrics: American Woman (The whole song)
Why They're Insulting: Do you know what it is about? It is written by a Canadian who has no use for Americans. I'm sure whoever wrote this song laughed his head off when he saw Americans buying this record and making it number 1.
Submitted by: Mona Helgesen-Biehl
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Real Places Mentioned in Songs:
"American Woman"
The Lyrics: American Woman, said get away American Woman, listen what I say Don't come hangin' around my door I don't need your war machines I don't need your ghetto scenes Coloured lights can hypnotize Sparkle someone else's eyes Now woman, get away from me American woman, mama let me be.
Why: The continent of America is part of the word American in this song and title. "American Woman" was a #1 hit song for the Canadian group, the Guess Who in the first few months of 1970. With the vocals of lead singer Burton Cummings really selling this tune. It was a #1 tune the same week as the Kent State University, in Ohio, massacre on May 4, 1970 where students were protesting against President Nixon expanding the Vietnam War into Cambodia, and four students were shot by National Guardsmen. The "American Woman" being referenced by the Guess Who is the Statue of Liberty.
Submitted by: Peter
| "Running back to Sakatoon"
The Lyrics: Moose Jaw, Terrace, and Medicine Hat...
Why: Umm. I'm confused. Isn't Saskatchewan somewhere you run FROM?
Submitted by: princejellyfish
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Super Long Pop Songs:
"American Woman" Length: 5:07
Although the length of the original lp version of this tune, at 5:07, is not as long as many songs put on this section of amiright, "American Woman's original lp version is so much more superior than the 3:46 single edit heard more often (including for some unknown and unfathomable reason on many Classic Rock and Classic hit stations), with it's opening of Burton Cummings spelling out A-M-E-R-I-C-A-N. The anti-American war machine tune, "American Woman" was the first and unfortunately for the Canadian band's U.S. fans, only #1 single going to #1 on the same week, May 4, 1970, as the Kent State University in Ohio massacre of four students by National Guardsmen when students utilized their Constitutional rights to protest President Nixon's expanding the Vietnam War into Cambodia.
Submitted by: Peter
Upbeat Songs With Depressing Lyrics:
"No Time"
The Lyrics: No time for a summer friend
No time for the love you send Seasons change and so do I You need not wonder why You need not wonder why There's no time for left for you Why: "No Time" was the third hit single for the Guess Who in the early 1970's (following "No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature" and "American Woman"). "No Time" continued the hard rock upbeat tempo, but with a decidedly depressing lyrics about the fact that Burton Cummings seems to have no time for someone, although near the end of the tune it ends up being that he has no time for the war, guessing he means the Vietnam War following on the theme set up in "American Woman".
Submitted by: Peter
| "No Sugar Tonight"
The Lyrics: No sugar tonight in my coffee
No sugar tonight in my tea No sugar to stand beside me No sugar to run with me Why: "No Sugar Tonight" by the Guess Who is most of the time played as medley with the Guess Who's song, "New Mother Nature". But alone as it sometimes is played, "No Sugar Tonight" is rather depressing in the lyrics department well continuing from "American Woman" the uptempo hard rock that the Guess Who was then playing in the early 1970's. It's depressing because the guy, Burton Cummings is vocalizing, can't get a woman (or his "sugar") to be with.
Submitted by: Peter
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| There are additional Upbeat Songs With Depressing Lyrics available. | |
