Name that tune ?

[David Morton]

Along the lines of Keiths "Checking if you are awake" but, in my case, requiring no mental skills what so ever, here is the next challenge. Should you choose to accept it, there is no prize. Well, maybe a sarcastic smilie...

Name that tune:


A-bee-bow-bow-bow-buppa-b-bow-bow


Clue: blue gay.......................

Genre: you need to be old - before 'Genre' was invented

 

[Graham]

Depends what you consider old ....

I'm going for "The Bird Is The Word"....

Or should I have had my Weetabix this morning ?

Graham.

 

[Ian Anderson]

Good Morning Freedom

By Blue Mink and also Elton John

When do I get the prize?

Ian

 

[David Morton]

several weetabix - which are quite nice soaked with a bit of apple juice first then with greek yoghurt and fruit stirred in.
The "Bird is the word" from the Trashmen or the Rivingtons? Anyway the answer is "non".

 

[David Morton]

epper:epper:epper:Nice one Ian.

You don't need anything sarcastic.
Too easy really.....

 

[David Morton]

My wife just told me all you have to do is google it and it will then come up with the answer. Don't you just hate smart blondes.
I'll make the next one almost impossible........

 

[Graham]

Damn... Maybe I should have started the day with a small snifter... but no... that way lies madness!

 

[Jack]

several weetabix - which are quite nice soaked with a bit of apple juice first then with greek yoghurt and fruit stirred in.
The "Bird is the word" from the Trashmen or the Rivingtons? Anyway the answer is "non".

"Surfin' Bird" is a song performed by the American surf rock band The Trashmen, which reached #4 on the Billboard Hot 100.<SUP id=cite_ref-0 class=reference>[1]</SUP> It is a combination of two R&B hits by The Rivingtons, "Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow" and "The Bird's the Word"<SUP id=cite_ref-herald_1-0 class=reference>[2]</SUP> and was released in 1963.

 

[Mike]

The vast and apparently limitless spectrum of knowledge and topics on this forum is absolutely mind boggling. I am truly amazed...awed 'eee-vun' )

 

[Jack]

several weetabix - which are quite nice soaked with a bit of apple juice first then with greek yoghurt and fruit stirred in.
The "Bird is the word" from the Trashmen or the Rivingtons? Anyway the answer is "non".

David, I prefer my Weetabix soaked in Limoncello!

 

[Victors]

Tutti Frutti, by Little Richard?

And anything soaked with Lemoncelo tastes better!

 

[Daniel]

Anyone recognize this obscure chorus from the sixties?

Chorus:
Dit Dit Dah Dit
Dit Dit Dah
Dah Dit Dah Dit
Dah Dit Dah

 

[Jack Houpe]

Shanana. Sha Na Na? Bowser

 

[David Morton]

Morse code.
usually followed with :

dah dah dah
dit dit dah dit
dit dit dah dit

dit dah dit dah dit.

What was the last symbol though?

 

[Daniel]

End of message was not the title I was thinking of.

The singer of the song once came in ahead of Dylan in a talent show and Bernie Taupin was partially inspired by one of his songs for Rocket Man.

 

[David Morton]

Daniel, You win. Too obscure for me.


ps
My morse speeds were 30 wpm for P/L and 40wpm for code / foreign language using a typewriter.

 

[Charlie Farley]

That's the rythmn track to the next six winning songs from ' American Idol '

 

[Daniel]

Here you go. The singer/songwriter is Tom Rapp from the late sixties, his band was called Pearls Before Swine.

YouTube - Pearls Before Swine - Oh dear Miss Morse


itunes song previews & bio

http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/familiar-songs/id204718587

 

[David Morton]

Thanks Daniel.
Somewhat different.
As an aside, no more morse code in the military for about the last ten years - nobody is taught it any more. There was still a morse key in the Nimrod MR2 the last time I flew in one but it was redundant. It seems the only use for Morse now is the identification codes transmitted on Navigation aids in civil aviation but I'm not sure if it's still part of the exam for would be pilots.

 

[Chris P.]

... and here I was thinking it was some porno theme...