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Sam CookAlso known as: Sam Cook. Submitted by: oldsoul
Original Song Name | New Song Name | Submitter Name |
| "A Train Is Gonna Come" | "A Change Is Gonna Come" | Armand |
| "Eros" | "Cupid" | oldtimer |
Song/Performer | Comment | Submitter Name |
| "Everybody Likes To Cha Cha Cha," | Some people don't like dancing at all. | Candy Welty |
| "Twistin' The Night Away," | Night is not something that can be twisted. | Karen Smith |
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | |
| "I Will Always Love You," Whitney Houston | "Nothing Can Change This Love," Sam Cooke | |
| "Cryin'," Aerosmith | "Sad Mood," Sam Cooke | |
| "Crying," Roy Orbison | "Sad Mood," Sam Cooke | |
| "Cousin John," Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee | "Cousin Of Mine," Sam Cooke | |
| There are additional songs titles that answer other songs available. | ||
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "Cupid" | "Judas" | malcolm higgins |
| "Wonderful World" | "Diobomacal World" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "You Send Me" | "She Left Me" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "Cupid" | "Cubans" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "Chain Gang" | "Same Gang" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "Don't Know Much About History" | "Don't Know Much About Anything (the Obama Plan)" | Malcolm Higgins |
| "Twistin' The Night Away" | "Christened A Knight Today" | Alvin Rhodes |
| "Wonderful World" | "Wonderful Girl" | Johnny Penry |
| "Don't Know Much" | "Don't Know Much" | Ed Smiley |
| "Another Saturday Night" | "Another Pizza Tonight" | Malcolm Higgins |
There are additional song parodies available. | ||
Song Name | Company/Organization | Submittor |
| Chain Gang | Southern Prison | oldsongs |
| Wonderful World | Board of Education | Stephanie Craddock |
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| Let's Dance Chris Montez | Twistin' The Night Away Sam Cooke | Let's Dance The Night Away | Bobby Heffley |
| My Name Is Eminem | Cupid Sam Cooke | My Name Is Cupid | Gretchen Wieners |
| Mama Tried The Everly Brothers | Having A Party Sam Cooke | Mama Tried Having A Party But too many people crashed it. | Marian |
| There's A Moon Out Tonight The Capris | Bring It On Home To Me Sam Cooke | There's A Moon Out Tonight (Bring It On Home To Me) | Julia Cox |
| There are additional duets that haven't been done yet available. | |||
"Twisting The Night Away"
Misheard Lyrics: See the man in evening clothes
how he got here I do not know Dancing with the chicken stacks Original Lyrics: See the man in evening clothes
how he got here I don't knows Dancing with the chick in slacks | "Cupid"
Misheard Lyrics: Cupid, help me,
I'm thirsty Original Lyrics: Cupid, help me,
I need you. |
"Twistin' the Night Away"
Misheard Lyrics: Everybody's peeling grapes
Original Lyrics: Everybody's feeling great
| "Twistin' the Night Away"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh man you find a hole in Y' (ie your) arm
Original Lyrics: Oh man you find the old and young
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"Cupid"
Misheard Lyrics: Cupid, help me,
I'm thirsty Original Lyrics: Cupid, help me,
I need you. |
Story about this misheard lyric by: S. Tim Wood Growing up, I often confused the lyrics of Sam Cooke's "Cupid" and "Chain Gang". |
| There are additional misheard stories available. | |
"Shake"
The Nonsensical Lyrics: Shake it like a bowl of soup
Why They're Nonsensical: Since when is soup ever shaken? If you shook a bowl of soup, you'd have a mess to clean up.
Submitted by: JD
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"Twistin' The Night Away"
The Misrhymed Lyrics: Dancin' with the girl in black
See her movin' up and back Man, there ain't nothing like twistin' the night away Why They're Misrhymed: Pronounced 'Man there ain't nothin' lahk'. I love it. Sam had the jump on the whole Ebonics thing, and used it to avoid obvious banal and sexist choices like 'crack' and 'sack' and 'stacked'
Submitted by: C. Darryl Mattison
| "Wonderful World"
The Misrhymed Lyrics: Don't know much about algebra
Don't know what a slide rule is for Why They're Misrhymed: To make it rhyme, should we sing, 'Don't know what a slide rule is fuh'?
Submitted by: ChaChaCharlie
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"Wonderful World"
The Dated Lyrics: Don't know what a slide rule is for
Why They're Dated: How many students today would know what a slide rule IS, let alone what it's for?
Submitted by: oatmeal face
| "Twistin' The Night Away"
The Dated Lyrics: Where the people are so gay
Why They're Dated: Nowadays listeners would think Cooke was referring to the twisters' sexual preferences!
Submitted by: Pickle
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"Only Sixteen"
Opening Lines: She was only sixteen, only sixteen, and I loved her so
Comments: Submitted by: Candy Welty
| "Lonely Island"
Opening Lines: I live on a lonely island in the heart of a city
Comments: Submitted by: Candy Welty
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"Wonderful World"
The Lyrics: Don't know much about history;
Don't know much biology; Don't know much about a science book; Don't know much about the French I took. (also) Don't know much about geography; Don't know much trigonometry; Don't know much about algebra; Don't know what a slide rule is for. Why: This ringtone would doom a candidate at an interview for a teaching position.
Submitted by: Kathy
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