Bring Us Your Queer Little Tunes
We all know it. You know it. I know it. But we don’t want to admit it. It’s almost a dark secret.
As my son said to me when I was playing basketball with him once while I was still in a suit and all that TV makeup, “Be free, Mom!”
Bring us that song that comes on the radio that you quickly admonish in front of others, but deep down…it drives you. You hear the beginning few licks and come alive! You can hear it right now. Yep…in your head . But you wouldn’t dare tell anyone.
Because I don’t have the priviledge of anonymity anyway, I’ll throw three of mine out there. Ready?
“Brandy” by Looking Glass
“My Sweet Lord” by George Harrison
“I Remember Finding Out About You” by Badfinger (okay, maybe that’s kind of cool)
July 10th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
I am totally into “boots with the fur!”
July 10th, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Yes, but Mel…c’mon…this is something you totally don’t mind putting out there…I so can hear you singing it in my own head!
July 10th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Okay, I’m sort of reluctant to tell people about my love of many Steely Dan songs.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:18 pm
“Still The Same” — Bob Seger
July 10th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Susanna Clark once told me, if you get a bad song stuck in your head, just wistle the tune from Andy Griffith and it will go away. It works.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:46 pm
I already got ridiculed for this once on your site but I have Grease on my iPod. I have all kinds of queer songs that I run to. I just bought “The String Quartet Tribute To Pearl Jam” on iTunes too.
July 10th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
if it be queer tunes u wanting…..
anything by Culture Club
July 10th, 2008 at 8:53 pm
CT, remember when I was a deejay at the old KBCL on Hearne Avenue in Shreveport and you called and requested, “Sad Eyes”?
July 10th, 2008 at 9:01 pm
Oh yeah. You once gave Casey Kasem’s “American Top 40″ on a four album set after you broadcast it. I wore that one out.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
That’s the first time I’ve thought about that in years!
July 10th, 2008 at 9:57 pm
About the only thing that comes to mind from reading this is “The Logic Song” by Supertramp… Annoying but somehow it rocks… That & “Talk Dirty To Me” by Poison:)
I didn’t know you used to DJ Sherri, I’m thinking about going back to 98 Rocks if they have room there & I don’t know if you knew or remember but I used to DJ @ 99X (before they tried to be a clone of 98)…
July 10th, 2008 at 10:20 pm
Rupert Holmes: “The Pina Colada Song”
Sha Na Na: “Blue Moon”
Jiminy Cricket: “When you wish upon a star”
Andy Williams: “Moon River”
Dean Martin: “It’s Amore”
Roy Rogers: “Happy Trails”
July 10th, 2008 at 10:25 pm
Also, Barry Manilow: “I write the songs”
July 10th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Yeah, WRyker! Especially ‘When You Wish Upon A Star”!
The theme from Mary Tyler Moore.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:12 am
I do remember that Jason. I was in radio for seven years at various stations in NW Louisiana before I switched to TV…did news, sports and sales, too. Fun, huh?
July 11th, 2008 at 8:29 am
Here Comes the Sun… do da do doo - Beatles
Let Your Love Flow - Bellamy Brothers
Harvest Moon - Neil Young
Lousing My Religion - REM
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
any Bob Seger song and the list goes on!
was this really supposed to be just one song?
July 11th, 2008 at 9:04 am
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty (I think)
The Lion Sleeps Tonight - The Tokens
Surfin’ Bird - The Trashmen
Telephone - Electric Light Orchestra
July 11th, 2008 at 9:06 am
Ordinary Average Guy - Joe Walsh
Stuck in the Middle - Stealers Wheel
Cripple Creek - The Band
July 11th, 2008 at 9:21 am
John Lennon: “Imagine”
Louis Armstrong: “What a wonderful world”
Ray Stevens: “Everything is beautiful”
Kenny Rogers: “Lucille”
“Amazing Grace” played on bagpipes
July 11th, 2008 at 9:54 am
When I hear the first word’s of Johnny Cash’s “Folsom Prison Blues” from the live album… “Hello, I’m Johnny Cash” I crank it! But to be on topic…
Hall and Oates - Sara Smile
Neil Sedaka - Laughter In The Rain
Definitely Sad Eyes!!
July 11th, 2008 at 10:36 am
LOVE “My Sweet Lord!”
July 11th, 2008 at 11:00 am
“Get Down Tonight” - KC & the Sunshine Band
“I Come From the Land Down Under” - Men at Work
“Rock the Casbah” - The Clash
“Rhiannon” - Fleetwood Mac
July 11th, 2008 at 11:04 am
And let’s not forget “Dude Looks Like a Lady” by Aerosmith!
July 11th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Let It Whip - Gap Band
July 11th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
It was a night like this forty million years ago
I lit a cigarette, picked up a monkey skull to go
The sun was spitting fire, the sky was blue as ice
I felt a little tired, so I watched Miami Vice
And walked the dinosaur, I walked the dinosaur
Open the door, get on the floor
Everybody walk the dinosaur
July 11th, 2008 at 1:36 pm
Whoops! That last entry was intended for Jody’s blog.
July 11th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Dancing Queen - ABBA
Peaches - Presidents of the USA
El Paso - Marty Robbins
July 11th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
I forgot about Peaches - Presidents of the USA
One my favorite queer songs of all time.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
Anything by Pat Benatar. I have her “best of” 2 disc set in my car right now.
July 11th, 2008 at 3:19 pm
Stephanie will have to help me with mine, It’s a rapping version of a Christmas song where Mom’s cooking chicken and collard greens. I used to know all the words.
I have to second “Let it Whip”
July 11th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Hitchin A Ride — Vanity Fare
She’s A Lady - Tom “throw your bras on the stage” Jones
Treat Her Like A Lady - Cornelius Brothers & Sister Rose
Sher, relating to “non-queer” music, I am surprising youngest daughter for her upcoming Sweet 16th b/day - bought 2 tickets for her and I to fly to Tampa next Wednesday to watch Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers! As much (or more) for me than her, but she loves old classic rock-n-roll and she will be really excited.
July 11th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
Try a Little Tenderness - Otis Redding
Under The Boardwalk - The Drifters
Higher Ground - Stevie Wonder (RHCP did a good cover)
Word Up - Cameo (good Korn cover, too)
July 11th, 2008 at 8:11 pm
“Rocket Man” -Elton John
“In the Air Tonight” -Phil Collins
Anything Alanis Morissette
Wow… I feel better now…
July 12th, 2008 at 6:26 am
“Leavin’ On A Jet Plane” by Peter, Paul and Mary
George’s last three mentions.
Copy that on Johnny Cash, Todd.
July 12th, 2008 at 12:20 pm
Woe, woe, woe…
I have more Johnny Cash than anything else… certainly not associated with “queer”… just great music!
July 12th, 2008 at 12:45 pm
AJW - recently enjoyed watching “Walk The Line” again. Can you imagine Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, Roy Orbison, Elvis & Jerry Lee Lewis doing a traveling road show in the mid to late 50’s. Those guys were so far ahead of their time!! Also Joaquin Phoenix and Reese Witherspoon did unbelievable job of actually singing the music in the movie.
I Fought The Law - Buddy Holly & The Crickets
LA Woman - The Doors
Windy - The Association
July 12th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
AJW–”A Boy Named Sue” isn’t queer?
July 12th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
And the sailers say Brandy, you’re a fine girl
What a good wife you would be
But my life, my lover my lady is the sea!
July 12th, 2008 at 11:07 pm
It tells the preposterous yet moving tale of a young man’s quest for revenge on an absent father whose only contribution to his entire life was naming him Sue, traditionally a girl’s name. The name was the cause of endless ridicule as the young man was growing up. As the years went on, Sue grew big, strong and fearsome from all the fights he got into with bullies.
At the climax of the song, Sue finds and confronts his father, and the two get into a vicious brawl. After the two have beaten each other almost senseless, Sue’s father admits that the name was given to him as an act of love: because he knew he would not be there for his son, Sue’s father gave him that name to make sure that he grew up strong. Learning this, Sue forgives his father and they have an emotional reconciliation.
With his lesson learned, Sue closes the song with an announcement: “And if I ever have a son, I think I’m gonna name him . . . Bill or George, any damn thing but Sue! I still hate that name!”
No. Not so queer…
July 13th, 2008 at 1:48 am
AJW brings a stirring summation for the defense!!
July 14th, 2008 at 6:26 am
Lean on Me - Bill Withers… which (in my opinion) is one of the few that has a remake to be proud of! Still love the original.
July 14th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
“I’m A Man” - Chicago
July 14th, 2008 at 4:19 pm
I’m a Man - there’s an old one. One of my 1st albums, or album sets, as a kid. Five album set - Chicago Live at Carnegie Hall.
Great tune, JChristie!
July 14th, 2008 at 4:24 pm
“Saturday In The Park”, too!
July 14th, 2008 at 4:31 pm
Well, since we on old Chicago tunes, Free and Make Me Smile!!
Glad you made it back, Sher!!!
Oh, saw Sandy T (runner girl) at Jefferson Tri yesterday and loop at Arthur Circle is about .3 to .33 miles (you told me she would know)!!!!
July 14th, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Thanks, George. I’m about to fall asleep. Should be an interesting 5pm newscast.
Glad you got your question answered!
July 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
crockadile rock - elton john
bad case of loving you - robert palmer
hot legs - rod stewart
oh what the hell
somebody to love - queen
there i said it
July 16th, 2008 at 7:55 pm
Feel better, rc? Those are good ones.
Thought of more today.
Even though I was not a child when Mr. Rogers was on, “Won’t you be my neighbor” is still oddly comforting to me.
July 17th, 2008 at 7:37 am
Yes I do…
Cover of the Rolling Stone - Dr Hook
Wow, feels like a thousand pounds lifted off of me.
July 17th, 2008 at 8:00 am
“Joy To The World” –Three Dog Night
I feel 30 pounds lighter.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
…I second “Joy to the World”
“Never been to Spain” - Three Dog Night
“Turn the Page” - Bob Seger
July 17th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Yep, like ‘em a lot!
“One Bad Apple” –The Jackson Five
Now, I’m just emaciated.
July 17th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
Achy Brachy Heart- Billy Ray Cirus