Bruce Tuncks Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Gosh I remember how the Everley Brothers were banned in some US states for the song " Wake up little Suzy" whilst Little Richard sang "Tutti Fruiti I wanna rootie " and he wasn't banned! I never figured this out and now I can't ask him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry_Atrick Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Maybe a rootie in the US means root beer... or root and beer? Not sure... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmccarthy Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 (edited) Yes it is an Aussie slang, he didn’t say it. He said all rootie, meant nothing. Edited May 10, 2020 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old man emu Posted May 10, 2020 Share Posted May 10, 2020 Little Richard's Tutti Fruiti. According to some accounts, Little Richard first wrote and performed the song while working as a janitor in a bus station. The original lyrics, in which "Tutti Frutti" referred to a homosexual man, were: Tutti Frutti, good booty If it don't fit, don't force it You can grease it, make it easy These were replaced with: Tutti Frutti, aw rooty Tutti Frutti, aw rooty. "Aw rooty" was a slang expression meaning "All right". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 So it was cos I was Australian? Bugger, I never realized that but it does make sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted May 12, 2020 Share Posted May 12, 2020 There's pages of the WWW dedicated to misheard lyrics. Some of them are hilarious. Some of my favourites; Hermans Hermits - "She's a Must to Avoid" - Original lyrics: "She's a Must to Avoid" ..... Misheard lyrics: "She's a Muscular Boy" .... "She's a Muscular Droid" .... "She's a Muscular Void" .... "She's a Master of Freud" .... "Cheese and Mustard Avoid" .... Billy Joel - "Allentown" Original Lyrics: "Iron and coke, chromium steel" ..... Misheard Lyrics: "I have a choke, throw me a seal" ..... The Beach Boys - "Airplane" Original Lyrics: "Soon she'll be kissing me hello" ..... Misheard Lyrics: "Soon she'll be kissing me below" ..... Bee Gees - "Alone" Original Lyrics: "I was a midnight rider on a cloud of smoke" ..... Misheard Lyrics: "I was in Knight Rider but I never spoke" .... One blokes actually written a book of misheard lyrics. You can find some in the link below ..... http://www.amiright.com/misheard/artist/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 Rootie may well be Aussie but what about " I gotta girl named Sue, she knows just what to do " " she knows how to love me..." I reckon these add to the impression I always had about the rootie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bruce Tuncks Posted May 12, 2020 Author Share Posted May 12, 2020 Once my daughter asked me " Dad, what's a stee ?" She was trying to work out what they meant in the song " I ask in all on a stee" 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onetrack Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 And of course, there's always the misheard/mis-sung National anthem line - “Australians all eat ostriches, for breakfast, lunch, and tea” .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
octave Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Some misheard lyrics from my son from many years ago. One day he asked me what a "subosta" was, having no idea what he meant I asked him where he heard it. He told me it was in that song we had listened to a few times. The lyrics were actually "you're no SUPPOSED to be here with me. In a similar vein he also asked me what a "forelash" was, again asking for some context hes said like in that song "touches my forlash hard" which turned out to be "touches my FOOLISH HEART" 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willedoo Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 And then there's the parodies like "Pardon me, boy, is that the cat that chewed your new shoes?" 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yenn Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 I used to like the rock mice hole in the bosom of Abraham song. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red750 Posted May 13, 2020 Share Posted May 13, 2020 Or Alanis Morriset's lyric "The cross I'd bear" misheard as "The cross-eyed bear." 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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