Fun Music Information -> Tommy James & the Shondells
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Misspellings and other Alternate Names:
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Tommy James & the Shondells, Tommy James and The Shondells, Tommy James and the ShandellsUse a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | Comments & Submittor Name |
| "Mirage" | "Just My Imagination," Temptations | Kathy |
| "I Think We're Alone Now" | "We're All Alone," Rita Coolidge | Kathy |
| "I Think We're Alone Now" | "Splendid Isolation," Warren Zevon | Martha Hankins |
Remove a Letter From a Song Title:
"Crimson And Cover" originally "Crimson And Clover"
Peter
Song Parodies:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "I Think We're Alone Now" | "I Drink Your Milkshake Now" | Michael Pacholek |
| "I Think We're Alone Now" | "Leave Britney Alone Now" | Michael Pacholek |
| "Draggin' The Line" | "Draggin' The Sleigh" | Rex Ungericht |
| "Crimson and Clover" | "Women and Whisky" | Lionel Mertens |
| "My Baby Does the Hanky-Panky" | "My Savior" | Dan Lotto |
| "Crimson and Clover" | "K-Fed and Coulter" | Michael Pacholek |
| "Draggin' the Line" | "Waitin' in Line" | Rex Ungericht |
| "Crystal Blue Persuasion" | "Poorly Planned Invasion" | Brad Schuman |
| "I Think We're Alone Now" | "I'm Drinkin' a Rhône Now" | John A. Barry |
| "Crimson and Clover" | "Donald F. Duck" | Malik Roberts |
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Bad Choices for On Hold Music:
Song Name | Company/Organization | Submittor |
| Sweet Cherry Wine | Alcoholics Anonymous | crazydon |
| Draggin' The Line | Procastinator's Anonymous | FussBudgetVanPelt |
Duets Not Yet Performed:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| More Than I Can Say Bobby Vee/Leo Sayer | Say I Am Tommy James & The Shondells | More Than I Can Say I Am | crazydon |
| Say, Say, Say Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson | Say I Am Tommy James & the Shondells | Say, Say, Say I Am | crazydon |
| Say I Am Tommy James & The Shondells | I Am The Walrus The Beatles | Say I Am The Walrus | crazydon |
| Say I Am Tommy James & The Shondells | I Am A Rock Simon & Garfunkel | Say I Am A Rock | crazydon |
| There are additional duets that haven't been done yet available. | |||
Misheard Lyrics:
"Draggin The Line"
Misheard Lyrics: Bumming around
Original Lyrics: Draggin' the line
| "Sugar On Sunday"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh my love, you've been good to me
Angilee, Angilee Original Lyrics: Oh my love, you've been good to me
Femme jolie, femme jolie. |
"Mony Mony"
Misheard Lyrics: Garibaldi
Original Lyrics: Mony, Mony
| "Hanky Panky"
Misheard Lyrics: My baby dogs are having bacon.
Original Lyrics: My baby does the hanky panky.
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Misheard Lyrics Story:
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"Sugar On Sunday"
Misheard Lyrics: Oh my love, you've been good to me
Angilee, Angilee Original Lyrics: Oh my love, you've been good to me
Femme jolie, femme jolie. |
Story about this misheard lyric by: Dale Smith In the original version of this song by Tommy James & The Shondells, it sure sounds more like angilee, angilee than it does femme jolie, femme jolie. I named my daughter, 21 years ago, after what I thought I heard in the song --> Angilee. It wasn't until I heard Tommy's live at The Bitter End cd that I realized he was not saying Angilee. I have since learned that femme jolie means 'pretty girl.' And that definitely applies to my sweetie!! |
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Repetitive Lyrics:
"Hanky Panky"
The Repetitive Lyrics: My baby does the hanky panky
Why They're Repetitive: That's almost the whole song!
Submitted by: helena
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Songs That Open With Their Titles:
"Hanky Panky"
Opening Lines: My baby does the hanky panky, My baby does the hanky panky, My baby does the hanky panky, My baby does the hanky panky, My baby does the hanky panky!
Comments: Yes, Tommy James & the Shondells' first #1 song, the summer of 1966's "Hanky Panky" repeats the first line five times and actually repeats again for five more times the same lines (for a total of ten) before another lyric is heard. Of the seven tunes that were #1 in the summer of 1966, Frank Sinatra's "Strangers In The Night", the Beatles' "Paperback Writer", the Troggs' "Wild Thing", the Lovin' Spoonful's "Summer In The City", Donovan's "Sunshine Superman" and the Association's "Cherish", Tommy James & the Shondells' "Hanky Panky" had the longest and most convoluted time reaching the #1 position. In 1963, "Hanky Panky" (written by the songwriting team of Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich) was released as the B-side of the Raindrops' "That Boy John". A 13-year old, Tommy Jackson heard the Raindrops version and Jackson from Niles, MI recorded with his group the Shondells (started in 1959 as Tom & the Tornadoes) it at a club in South Bend, IN (where Jackson couldn't remember the lyrics and just made them up as he went along) for the tiny "Snap" label. The 1963, the Shondells version also went nowhere as did the B-side version by the Raindrops. Then in late 1965, a Pittsburgh DJ started playing it and it started to become a huge radio hit throughout the U.S., with bootleggers selling 80,000 copies illegally before the record company "Roulette" could release the original master copy. Realizing that they had a huge hit on their hands, "Roulette's", Pittsburgh DJ, DJ "Mad Mike" Metro asked Tommy Jackson to re-record the tune in Pittsburgh. But by then the Shondells had long since disappeared and Jackson had to ask a local group, the Raconteurs (not Jack White's later group) to become the new Shondells with very little pay, which they agreed to. And at this time Tommy Jackson changed his last name to James, and the rest as one might say was history!
Submitted by: Peter
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