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The Supremes', "Ain't No Mountain High Enough"
The Misheard Lyrics:
If you need me, put your c**k on me
The Real Lyrics:
If you need me, call me
The Story: I was listening to it on my local radio station and heard it. I thought that it was very rude so I rung up the radio station to complain! I went live on air to send out my views. I felt a complete d*ckhead afterwards when hearing it again!!!!!!! :) - Submitted by: Simon Burrows
The Supremes', "Baby Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Maybe, no
The Real Lyrics:
Baby love
The Story: Why we hear "maybe" instead of "baby", and vice versa. - Submitted by: Cody Finke
The Supremes', "Baby Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Waking up
The Real Lyrics:
Baby love
The Story: In memory of Mary Wilson (1944-2021) - Submitted by: Cody Finke
The Supremes', "I Hear a Symphony"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I heeeear meeeen siiiing
The Real Lyrics:
I hear a symphony.
The Story: I’m 36 & this has always been a song I loved when I heard it on the radio or when my grandma would play it but guess I never paid attention to/asked the name of it. I always sang the song titled chorus as “I Hear Men Sing” I recently got a newer car with a screen displaying song info & happened to just hear it come on the radio. I thought for sure it was wrong haha - Submitted by: Michaela O
The Supremes', "It's All Your Fault (Version 2)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You've got me in your car, and there I'll remain.
The Real Lyrics:
You've got me in your power, and there I remain.
The Story: I heard this when searching on iTunes for Supremes tracks and came across this secret gem. I got to love it so much as it's so reminiscent of Baby Love and Where Did Our Love Go combined. I kept hearing this lyric and thinking "why would The Supremes talk about someone in the back of their car?" and of course I couldn't stop laughing when I found the original lyrics. - Submitted by: Brandon Thompson
The Supremes', "Mother Dear (Version 1)"
The Misheard Lyrics:
I'm calling keeper (keeper, keeper).
Keeper in love each day.
Keeper in love each day.
The Real Lyrics:
I'm falling deeper (deeper, deeper), deeper in love each day.
The Story: Heard this on the cancelled track 'Mother Dear' from More Hits By The Supremes and always assumed Diana was saying "I'm calling keeper" as if to say she is going to keep her lover. - Submitted by: Brandon Thompson
The Supremes', "Where Did Our Love Go"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Baby baby, where did our love go? And all of your promises, all the love I ever mourned?
The Real Lyrics:
Baby baby, where did our love go? And all of your promises of a love forevermore.
The Story: This year I just got into Motown music, starting with The Four Tops, The Temptations and then The Supremes. This song was played by a friend after he broke up with his girlfriend..in which me and this girl are now together. I always took a liking to this song and brought the 'Baby Love: The Collection" album. Turns out I was singing it wrong all this time. I never searched the lyrics for The Supremes as I can pick it up from Diana Ross's voice easily, and to me it always seemed the lyrics were "all the love I ever mourned." as I felt it corresponded to the lyrics in the song. I think I'll have to change now :). I'm surprised I'm not the only one who has misheard this. - Submitted by: Brandon Carroll
The Supremes', "You Can't Hurry Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
My mamma's head, K. Gorilla, ooh, you a-just-a too late
The Real Lyrics:
My mama said, You can't hurry love, ooh, you just have to wait
The Story: My dad and I were sitting in the car listening to k-earth 101.1, a popular oldies radio station, and this song came on. We sang it together, and he sang it differently and it sounded different that time. I asked him about it and he was laughing at me-then with me- for a long, long time. - Submitted by: Timi Zhuo
The Supremes', "You Can't Hurry Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
Trust in the good time
The Real Lyrics:
Trust, give it time
The Story: Phil Collins misheard the lyrics of the original Supremes song and sang it wrong as "Trust in the good time." The original Supremes song says "Trust, give it time." - Submitted by: James Owens
The Supremes', "You Can't Hurry Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
You can't have Reva
No, you'll just have to wait.
No, you'll just have to wait.
The Real Lyrics:
You can't hurry love
Oh you'll just have to wait.
Oh you'll just have to wait.
The Story: I imagined Reva as a bitchy red-headed woman, who was playing hard to get, stringing a poor guy along. - Submitted by: sondi
The Supremes', "You Can't Hurry Love"
The Misheard Lyrics:
kangaroo love
The Real Lyrics:
You can't hurry love
The Story: woman on t.v. telling how when she was a kid and how she used to think the Supremes were singing about Kangaroo Love - Submitted by: Joe
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