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'Bout your plans to make me blue
With some other guy that you knew before
Between the two of us guys, you know I love you more
It took me by surprise I must say
When I found out yesterday
Ooh-ooh I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Ooh-ooh I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind
Honey honey yeah
You know that a man ain't supposed to cry
But these tears I can't, hold inside
Losin' you would end my life you see
'Cause you mean that much to me
You could have told me yourself
That you found someone else
Instead I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Ooh-ooh I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind
Honey honey yeah
People say you, hear from what you see
Nah-nah-not from what you hear
I can't help, bein' confused
If it's true, won't you tell me dear
Do you plan to let me go
For the other guy that you knew before
Ooh-ooh I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Ooh-ooh I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind
Honey honey yeah
Ooh-ooh I heard it through the grapevine
Not much longer would you be mine
Ooh-ooh I heard it through the grapevine
And I'm just about to lose my mind
Ooh-ooh I heard it through the grapevine
Indeed
Yes it is.
And now this. Ah..................
"... all we knew and easy too so we wouldn't get it wrong..."
For the January crowd, however, it's just fine.
Misterfixit wrote:
Well, it IS August, now ...
That is also true of the versions by Smokey Robinson & The Miracles and Gladys Knight & The Pips.
Go away and don't ever come back...
Ok - I guess you are entitled to express your opinion - no matter how ludicrous it is.
True, but CCR give this tune a pretty good ride.
memory: late at night with EL and DG, parked along a dirt road in the middle of the woods, my parents' station wagon with the windows rolled up to keep in all the smoke, WBBQ-FM blasting this song as loud as that Chevy stereo would play.
Dude. And, like, your parents never smelled anything funny the next day...
WBBQ—perfect name for a smoke-out.
I could never have gotten away with anything like this (envy). It's been decades since I've been stoned and I do miss it from time to time.
Not the greatest tune of all time, far from it, but do like it and especially like the jam
memory: late at night with EL and DG, parked along a dirt road in the middle of the woods, my parents' station wagon with the windows rolled up to keep in all the smoke, WBBQ-FM blasting this song as loud as that Chevy stereo would play.
Right on. bro.
memory: late at night with EL and DG, parked along a dirt road in the middle of the woods, my parents' station wagon with the windows rolled up to keep in all the smoke, WBBQ-FM blasting this song as loud as that Chevy stereo would play.
That's just silly. Have you heard every song ever recorded? I think this is MUCH better than Rebecca Black's "Friday."
But I suppose if that's your bag, who am I to judge?
copymonkey wrote:
As a Dutchman with some interest in accents in English, I've always thought that the vocals in this particular CCR song are a VERY strong example of an accent from the NYC area.
"I hea'y'd it through the grapevine"
In another song:
"Big wheels keep on tu'y'ning, Proud Mary keeps on Bu'y'ning"
I believe the accent is from "New Je'y'sey", just accross the Hudson river.
Can somebody confi'y'm this, or enlighten me?
The affection is/was a take on Mississippi delta diphthongs, "choich" for "church", "woik" for "work" and so on. My physics prof back in the days was a black man from southern Mississippi, and he had 'em pegged from the get go, "Those boys wanna be from down there, but they ain't." The "ain't" with a wink. His specialty was quantum mechanics, the last I saw him, he was editing his correspondence with Einstein. "Woik" indeed.
Later edit: CCR was from El Cerrito, a little burg just north of Berkeley.
I don't know, I usually cannot stand CCR, but don't think I have ever heard that long version of this song. The last 4 minutes really had me moving in my chair....
It's as long as it needs to be..............
John Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook (all born 1945) met at senior high school in El Cerrito, California and began playing instrumentals and "juke box standards" together under the name The Blue Velvets.
ce wrote:
copymonkey wrote:
As a Dutchman with some interest in accents in English, I've always thought that the vocals in this particular CCR song are a VERY strong example of an accent from the NYC area.
"I hea'y'd it through the grapevine"
In another song:
"Big wheels keep on tu'y'ning, Proud Mary keeps on Bu'y'ning"
I believe the accent is from "New Je'y'sey", just accross the Hudson river.
Can somebody confi'y'm this, or enlighten me?
Actually folks, Berkeley is real close as El Cerrito is next to Berkeley down closer to the bay and north. And if Berkeley is the country, that would make me a hillbilly, cuz I was born there in 1952. San Francisco is across the Bay, we hillbillies take exception to being associated with them thar wierdos on the other side of the Bay.
Y'all
copymonkey wrote:
As a Dutchman with some interest in accents in English, I've always thought that the vocals in this particular CCR song are a VERY strong example of an accent from the NYC area.
"I hea'y'd it through the grapevine"
In another song:
"Big wheels keep on tu'y'ning, Proud Mary keeps on Bu'y'ning"
I believe the accent is from "New Je'y'sey", just accross the Hudson river.
Can somebody confi'y'm this, or enlighten me?
Yes - Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
It is listed as godlike in your personal list.
. . . you did ask. . .
It's not my fault you have no taste in music is it?
And going . . . and going . . .
Yes - Pogues - Fairytale Of New York
It is listed as godlike in your personal list.
. . . you did ask. . .
copymonkey wrote:
As a Dutchman with some interest in accents in English, I've always thought that the vocals in this particular CCR song are a VERY strong example of an accent from the NYC area.
"I hea'y'd it through the grapevine"
In another song:
"Big wheels keep on tu'y'ning, Proud Mary keeps on Bu'y'ning"
I believe the accent is from "New Je'y'sey", just accross the Hudson river.
Can somebody confi'y'm this, or enlighten me?
I think its just an affectation (check out the big brain on gutboy!) kinda like the way Billie Joe Armstrong of Greenday sings like an english punk.
My hubby and I usually hate endless 70s noodle fests (see: anything the Grateful Dead ever did), but this one, wow. So marvelous.
John Fogerty, Doug Clifford, and Stu Cook (all born 1945) met at senior high school in El Cerrito, California and began playing instrumentals and "juke box standards" together under the name The Blue Velvets.
ce wrote:
copymonkey wrote:
As a Dutchman with some interest in accents in English, I've always thought that the vocals in this particular CCR song are a VERY strong example of an accent from the NYC area.
"I hea'y'd it through the grapevine"
In another song:
"Big wheels keep on tu'y'ning, Proud Mary keeps on Bu'y'ning"
I believe the accent is from "New Je'y'sey", just accross the Hudson river.
Can somebody confi'y'm this, or enlighten me?
Oh yeah. They could extend this another 20 minutes and I'd be foot-dancing with fervency in my cubical the entire time.
"I hea'y'd it through the grapevine"
In another song:
"Big wheels keep on tu'y'ning, Proud Mary keeps on Bu'y'ning"
I believe the accent is from "New Je'y'sey", just accross the Hudson river.
Can somebody confi'y'm this, or enlighten me?
It seems so exaggerated... not sure you can chalk it up to an accent.
copymonkey wrote:
As a Dutchman with some interest in accents in English, I've always thought that the vocals in this particular CCR song are a VERY strong example of an accent from the NYC area.
"I hea'y'd it through the grapevine"
In another song:
"Big wheels keep on tu'y'ning, Proud Mary keeps on Bu'y'ning"
I believe the accent is from "New Je'y'sey", just accross the Hudson river.
Can somebody confi'y'm this, or enlighten me?
There are not words to describe how turgid this is. A minus 1 if ever there was one. Not sucko-barfo - it's just shite
to this day, I can NOT hear this song w/o thinking of them
plus christmas brings the 'here we come a-waffling' claymation memories too
Let's have a vote on the worst cover ever. For me, it would be Grand Funk's version of Gimme Shelter, Roxy Music's version of Eight Miles High, and that entire Bruce Lash album.
This one has to be top ten, though.
Actually, weren't these guys from Berkley? Or right near there? I guess, compared to San Francisco—that's kinda the country.
I doubt you could actually hear through the grapevine if it were this long.
Never! Heaven and Hell singing it both!
Loop it! Loop it!
yep, thanks Lord Goldsmith!
10.
This song would be too long at two minutes and twenty seven seconds. It feels like twenty seven minutes and two seconds. I had to turn the radio off. yuck
also raised on NY. The Mars Bar forever!
Couldn't agree more, utterly dire and way way too long. Why do these meandering drug induced jamming sessions some you call music have to go on for so long. It's alost like toture and definitely a waste of bandwidth.
This song would be too long at two minutes and twenty seven seconds. It feels like twenty seven minutes and two seconds. I had to turn the radio off. yuck
also raised on NY. The Mars Bar forever!
Over and over again. . . .