{"id":127937,"date":"2023-04-12T14:54:50","date_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=127937"},"modified":"2023-04-12T14:54:51","modified_gmt":"2023-04-12T19:54:51","slug":"the-view-from-the-balcony-original-song-titles-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/the-view-from-the-balcony-original-song-titles-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"The View From The Balcony: &#8220;Original Song Titles Revealed!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>When musicians take a song into the studio for recording, it\u2019s common for it to go through some changes before laying it down. Here is a list of a few of the artists\u2019 and the original titles of the songs that made them famous\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Harry Nilsson, \u201cWithout You (I Could Be Sleeping)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Carly Simon, \u201cYou\u2019re So Vein\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Cyndi Lauper, \u201cThyme After Thyme\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Guns N\u2019 Roses, \u201cWelcome to the Jungle, Tarzan!\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lil Wayne, \u201cA Milli, A Billi, Ain\u2019t You Silli!\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Robert Johnson, \u201cCrosses on the Side of the Road Blues\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Santana, \u201cOye Como Steak House\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tammy Wynette, \u201cStand by Your Man (with a Pitchfork)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chubby Checker, \u201cTwist My Sis\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bobby Darin, \u201cMack the Ginsu Knife\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Debby Boone, \u201cYou Light Up My Wife\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Survivor, \u201cEye of the Tigger\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Irene Cara, \u201cFlashpants\u2026I\u2019m a Squealin\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Marvin Gaye, \u201cLet\u2019s Get It Off\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Queen, \u201cAnother One Eats the Crust\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The 5th Dimension, \u201cHey, Darius! Put Some Shoeshine On\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Tag Team, \u201cWhoomp! (There it Went)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Dionne &amp; Friends, \u201cThat\u2019s What Fiends are For\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Michael Jackson, \u201cBillie\u2019s Jeans\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rolling Stones, \u201c(I Can\u2019t Get No) Chain Reaction\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Frank Sinatra, \u201cMy Way (or the Highway)\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beatles, \u201cHey Prude\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>James Brown, \u201cPapa\u2019s Got a Brand New Bag Man\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Bob Dylan, \u201cPeeing in the Wind\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jerry Lee Lewis, \u201cWhole Lot of Snakin\u2019 Going On\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beatles, \u201cA Hard, Dazed Night\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Don McLean, \u201cAmerican Spy\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Procol Harum, \u201cA Lighter Shade of Ale\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jimi Hendrix, \u201cFuchsia Haze\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Animals, \u201cHouse of the Rising Puns\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Deep Purple, \u201cToke on the Water\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Crosby, Stills &amp; Nash, \u201cJudy Black Eyes\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>B.B. King, \u201cThe Grill is Gone\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Flamingos, \u201cI Only Have Pies for You\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Glenn Miller, \u201cChattanooga Poo Poo\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Hank Williams, \u201cCold, Cold Fart\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Kris Kristofferson, \u201cMe and Bobby Finkelstein\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Roberta Flack, \u201cKilling Me Softly with His Thong\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Michael Jackson, \u201cBleat It\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Lou Reed, \u201cStalk on the Wild Side\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Billy Joel, \u201cPiano Non-Gender Specific Person\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beatles, \u201cHere Comes the Son of a Bitch\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Garth Brooks, \u201cFriends in Blow Places\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Coolio, \u201cGangsta\u2019s Pair of Dice\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fleetwood Mac, \u201cPay Your Own Way\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Beatles, \u201cEleanor Rigged Me\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rolling Stones, \u201cYou Can\u2019t Always Sit Where You Want\u201d<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>And my personal theme song: Steppenwolf, \u201cBorn to Be Mild\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2026and that\u2019s the view from The Balcony.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Randy Weeks is a Licensed Professional Counselor, a Certified Shamanic Life Coach, an ordained minister, a singer-songwriter, and an actor. He is in a constant state of re-writing his life. Randy may be reached at\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"mailto:randallsweeks@gmail.com\"><em>randallsweeks@gmail.com<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When musicians take a song into the studio for recording, it\u2019s common for it to go through some<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":118752,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11902],"tags":[5,4,10286,25049,3,10878],"class_list":["post-127937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-randy-weeks","tag-mississippi","tag-oxford","tag-randy-weeks","tag-song-titles","tag-the-local-voice","tag-the-view-from-the-balcony"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/ViewFromTheBalcony-2.jpg?fit=996%2C650&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127937\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}