Seeing as no one is up for new topics, how about rattling the old brain for

records, were the opening line is the actual title

examples

Mustang Sally

Angelina oh Angelina

Just Like The Weather

What Can I Do

Theres probalbly loads, but its a just a bit of fun, I am sat here now running tunes through me head to get to the opening line sad i know

Just come to me

a double header

Tony Hestor

Watch Yourself/ Just cant leave you

I need to get out more

Edited April 17, 200718 yr by moggy

'SELFISH ONE' JACKIE ROSS

'SHE'S THE ONE I LOVE' LEE TILMAN & THE SECRETS or DELACARDOS

'WOULD YOU BELIEVE' WILLIAM HUNT

'HEY GIRL' CHUCK SIBIT

'WHO CAN I TURN TO' COOL SOUNDS

'TRUST ME' BOBBY WOMACK

Edited April 17, 200718 yr by bearsoul

Simsy

Them first 3 on yer list need looking at mate

Shook you up starts with Baby sorry mate thats cheating

Cracking up / just another fool

The Panic Is On / I found, nothing in this world

come on ya gtta do better than that

'HEY GIRL' CHUCK SIBIT

Thought this started off "There's a girl I really want to meet....." ?

Patience Valentine - if you don't come

Johnny Maestro - I'm stepping out of the picture

Sam and Kitty - I've got something good

Edited April 17, 200718 yr by ShorterSoul

Ujima - I'm Not Ready - Epic

Martha And The Vandellas - Nowhere to run?

Magnetics - i have a girl and Heart your made of stone

Garnet Mimms - looking for you

Joannie Summers - Don't pity me

.. this could turn into a very long thread....

Bobby Bland : Shoes

O"Jays : Ill never forget you

Sam Fletcher : Id Think It Over

Bobby Bland : Shoes

O"Jays : Ill never forget you

Sam Fletcher : Id Think It Over

paris blues

paris blues

montclairs hey you

No Motown

Theres too many

Apart from instrumentals any choons where the title isnt mentioned !

When I feel the need Marvin Gaye

Mand

Minzi Berry "don't you dare to cry" Score

Rivingtons "Years of tears" VJ

No Motown

Theres too many

Apart from instrumentals any choons where the title isnt mentioned !

Shirley Lawson - The Star

Flicking through my iPod...

The CODs - She's fire

James Royal - Call my name

Freddie Houston - Soft walkin

Big Maybelle - I can't wait any longer (albeit with a "just" thrown in)

Johnny Moore - Lonely heart in the city

Dee Dee Sharup - Standing in the need of love

Paul Peek - I'm moving uptown (and what a turd of a record this is! why is it here?)

Oliver Norman - Drowning in my own despair

The Appointments - I saw you there

Ray Pollard - This time

Jo Armstead - I feel an urge coming on

The Parliaments - Heart trouble

Bernard Williams and the Original Blue Notes - It's needless to say

The Present - Many's the slip

Jack Hammer - What greater love

Don Hollinger - I had a nightmare

Really should get on with my work...

No Motown

Theres too many

Apart from instrumentals any choons where the title isnt mentioned !

johnny gilliam baby take me back, don't think it mentions the title

Seeing as no one is up for new topics, how about rattling the old brain for

records, were the opening line is the actual title

examples

Mustang Sally

Angelina oh Angelina

Just Like The Weather

What Can I Do

Theres probalbly loads, but its a just a bit of fun, I am sat here now running tunes through me head to get to the opening line sad i know

Btw Good thread Moggy!

Edited April 17, 200718 yr by Madmandy

Thought this started off "There's a girl I really want to meet....." ?

not the one i've got on Ultra-Class are there two versions ??

Swampdog - If you ask me.

Unless you count the do do do do do do do (I think theres seven).

Ed

johnny gilliam baby take me back, don't think it mentions the title

Good example. I don't think Dry Well's "Gypsy" (Lauren) ever actually says "gypsy" at any point. Also (for the pedants) I seem to remember (in a way that is not reassuring) that Eugene Jefferson never uses the exact phrase "a pretty girl dressed in brown".

I Only Get This Feeling - Chuck Jackson

but not

I Only Get This Feeling - Dee Irwin

not the one i've got on Ultra-Class are there two versions ??

There must be - the one I heard in 1991 starts off with four solitary drum beats, and then goes into the "There's a girl I really want to meet". That was also on Ultra Class (yellow label).

Would be keen to know if there is another version of it. The one I've heard is a really messy production. I remember it for the line which sounds like "She's not skinny, she's not fat, she shaved my p***s, and I like that"! I've been advised he actually says "She's shaped like Venus", but I beg to differ!

Edited April 17, 200718 yr by Gene-R

Good example. I don't think Dry Well's "Gypsy" (Lauren) ever actually says "gypsy" at any point. Also (for the pedants) I seem to remember (in a way that is not reassuring) that Eugene Jefferson never uses the exact phrase "a pretty girl dressed in brown".

pretty girl all dressed in brown

There must be - the one I heard in 1991 starts off with four solitary drum beats, and then goes into the "There's a girl I really want to meet". That was also on Ultra Class (yellow label).

Would be keen to know if there is another version of it. The one I've heard is a really messy production. I remember it for the line which sounds like "She's not skinny, she's not fat, she shaved my p***s, and I like that"!

this is a cracker can't post clip but welcome to call me and i'll play it this opens on 'Hey GIrl' then choppy syncopated drums then 'let me be your lover ...etc

this is a cracker can't post clip but welcome to call me and i'll play it this opens on 'Hey GIrl' then choppy syncopated drums then 'let me be your lover ...etc

May take you up on that if you don't mind - I'll play you the one I've got on tape in return (when I can find it). I always maintained that if it was a cleaner cut, then I would be more than happy to have one myself. Truth be told, it's still a good record!

Edited April 17, 200718 yr by Gene-R

Luther Ingram (and the G-MEN)- If It's All The Same To You Babe

Tymes - What Would I Do

Continental Four - The Way I Love You

Mary Love - You Turned My Bitter Into Sweet

Sheppards - Little Girl Lost

Sapphires - Gotta Have Your Love

Fiestas - Think Smart

May take you up on that if you don't mind - I'll play you the one I've got on tape in return (when I can find it). I always maintained that if it was a cleaner cut, then I would be more than happy to have one myself. Truth be told, it's still a good record!

it is as you say. this one i've got i'm playing out i think it's good enough to grace the old decks and not just as a curio ! will PM you !!

it is as you say. this one i've got i'm playing out i think it's good enough to grace the old decks and not just as a curio ! will PM you !!

Cheers mate - hear from you soon.

And here's some of my opening line faves:

GOSPEL CLASSICS: More Love, That's What We Need

CLIFF NOBLES: My Love Is Getting Stronger

VINCE APOLLO: I Bear Witness

DARRELL BANKS: Our Love Is In The Pocket

FRANK LYNDON: Don't Go Away Baby

Fiestas - Think Smart

No, no, no. It starts with "your gotta think smart"

Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen

Des O' Connor - Dick A Dum Dum

Lloyd Tyrell - Bang Bang Lulu

The Jam - In The City

Tommy Cooper - Don't Jump Off the Roof, Dad

Dick Van Dyke and Julie Andrews - Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious

...sorry, just back from the pub and couldn't resist...

woops, your not wrong.

Tommy Cooper - Don't Jump Off the Roof, Dad

...sorry, just back from the pub and couldn't resist...

Sorry to tell you Tone, but this starts off with "Daddy came home from work tired, His boss had been driving him mad"!

Offers on a Mint UK Palette original in sleeve??????

Simsy

Them first 3 on yer list need looking at mate

Shook you up starts with Baby sorry mate thats cheating

Cracking up / just another fool

The Panic Is On / I found, nothing in this world

come on ya gtta do better than that

How right you are and of course I realised that as soon as I'd posted it. Thought I'd deleted it quick enough, sadly not though..

Rivingtons "Years of tears" VJ

"Weeks of pain..." ??

Shirley Lawson - The Star

"Yer record's number one in the nation" ??

"Yer record's number one in the nation" ??

Hiya Simsy

any choons where the title isnt mentioned !

pretty sure 'the star' ain't mentioned at all...

Next thread?

Simsy

Them first 3 on yer list need looking at mate

Ok;

don't take it out on this world

what happened to yesterday

make up your mind

wherever you were

Cheating slightly, but the title isn't mentioned in:

Jackie Lee "The shotgun and the duck" (Mirwood)

Norma Jenkins and the Dolls "The airplane song" (Maltese)

or the truly awful

Billy Watkins "The iceman" (Era)

OR (if you give the record its full title)

The Present "Many's the slip (twixt the cup and the lip or baby the world really turns)" (Philips)

johnny gillam - find yourself another

Sorry to tell you Tone, but this starts off with "Daddy came home from work tired, His boss had been driving him mad"!

Offers on a Mint UK Palette original in sleeve??????

I've got it on a white label test pressing. (Well, I would have, wouldn't I?) Maybe I was thinking of the other side, "How Come There's No Dog Day"?

Sorry for the faux pas, it was a four pinter, too much for me as lunchtime "Swift Halves" go

I've got it on a white label test pressing. (Well, I would have, wouldn't I?) Maybe I was thinking of the other side, "How Come There's No Dog Day"?

Must be worth something, considering the issues are fetching around £20 - £25 these days! Funny thing is, I'm sure "How Come There's No Dog Day" was originally the official A-side.

Edited April 17, 200718 yr by Gene-R

Magnetics - i have a girl and Heart your made of stone

and I'll Keep Holding On

Seeing as no one is up for new topics, how about rattling the old brain for

records, were the opening line is the actual title

examples

Mustang Sally

Angelina oh Angelina

Just Like The Weather

What Can I Do

Theres probalbly loads, but its a just a bit of fun, I am sat here now running tunes through me head to get to the opening line sad i know

Does it count if it's the backing singers singing the title on the intro? Strictly speaking the first line of "Just like the weather" is: "The snow has ceased to fall...." Lots of others in this thread fall into that catagory, The backing singers start off singing the title, but when the singer actualy delivers the first line....

Edited April 17, 200718 yr by Trevski

The awesome Jack Montgomery and his "Dear Beloved" Also his other top tune,"Do you believe it" although i cant make out if its actually "it" or "in" at the beginning. Oh well it doesnt matter just an excuse to listen to it and check it out. Marvellous voice and a fantastic middle bit with strings and girlies going mad.

adams apples dont take it out on this world

bud harper where ever you were

brenda lee time & time again thats it now this could run & run this thread

cant resist last one danny white one little lie