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Glen MillerPaddy goes onto the TV Programme 'Stars In Their Eyes' where contestants pretend to be famous performers. "So, who are you going to be tonight" says the host Matthew Kelly. Paddy says "Tonight Matthew, I'm going to be the great band leader Glenn Miller" Then Paddy walked through the door......and they never saw him again! Submitted by: Big Dan
| At the end of a show Glen Miller asks the audience if his orchestra can play any requests - a man at the back shouts out 'play Paddy me Boy' he is ignored and the band play something else. Again they ask for any requests and the same man shouts even louder 'Play Paddy me Boy!' again they ignore him. This continues until finally his is the only voice asking for requests. And he is insistent on 'Paddy me Boy'. Glen admits that he doesn't know the song but the man is adamant that Glen most certainly does. Glen says O.K. then you sing it and we'll join in - So the man sings: 'Paddy me boy - is that the chatanooga choo choo' Submitted by: John
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Also known as: Alton Glenn Miller. Submitted by: band
Original Song Name | New Song Name | Submitter Name |
"Stairway To The Quasars" | "Stairway To The Stars" | Ron N. O'Connor |
"Stairway to the Pulsars" | "Stairway to the Stars" | Ron N. O'Connor |
"Carole of the Curves" | "Stairway to the Stars" | Carole of the curves, or Lombard of the legs? |
"Elmer's Glue" | "Elmer's Tune" | Toni Minot |
Song/Performer | Comment | Submitter Name |
"Moon Love," | The moon doesn't feel the emotion of love. | Peter |
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name | |
"This Is My Song," Petula Clark | "Moonlight Serenade," Glenn Miller | |
"Choo Choo Train," The Box Tops | "Chattanooga Choo Choo," Glenn Miller | |
"Memorize Your Number," Leif Garrett | "Pennsylvania 6-5000," Glenn Miller | |
"Down By The Station," The Four Preps | "Chattanooga Choo Choo," Glenn Miller | |
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Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
"Tuxedo Junction" | "Secaucus Junction" | Joe the Crazy Conch |
"The Chattanooga Choo Choo" | "Real Burger Meat To Chew Chew" | Hitch |
"In the Mood" | "Lin the Lewd" | John A. Barry |
"In The Mood" | "Gratitude" | Airfarcewon |
"Elmer's Tune" | "Flashin' Thirty-Two" | Airfarcewon |
"In the Mood" | "In the Loo (Incontinental Congress)" | Warren Baker |
"I Got A Gal In Kalamazoo" | "I Got A Gal Who Plays The Kazoo" | Airfarcewon |
"In The Mood" | "Attitude" | Airfarcewon |
"In The Mood" | "Instant-Food" | the_conqueror_of_parodies |
"Chattanooga Choo Choo" | "The Betta-Loo Song" | Kristof Robertson |
There are additional song parodies available. |
Song Name | Company/Organization | Submittor |
Pennsylvania 6500 | Anything To Do With Pennsylvania | Richard Davies |
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
Bernie's Tune Chet Baker | Elmer's Tune Glenn Miller | Bernie and Elmer's Tune | Maureen |
We Are Vertical Horizon | In The Mood Glenn Miller | We Are In The Mood | Bob Oldhart |
Mama Tried Merle Haggard | Pennsylvania 6-5000 Glenn Miller | Mama Tried Pennsylvania 6-5000 And it was a wrong number. | crazydon |
Can't Fight The Moonlight LeAnn Rimes | The Moonlight Serenade Glenn Miller | Can't Fight The Moonlight Serenade | Raphael Bivas |
"Dearly Beloved"
Misheard Lyrics: I'll be forever yours, come sorrow or shy.
Original Lyrics: I know that I'll be yours, come shower or shine.
| "Dearly Beloved"
Misheard Lyrics: I’ll be forever yours, come sorrow or shy.
Original Lyrics: I know that I’ll be yours, come shower or shine.
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"A String of Pearls"
Misheard Lyrics: Under these burning towns
Original Lyrics: Under these burning clouds
| "Chattanooga Choo Choo"
Misheard Lyrics: You like to play the PlayStation 'bout a quarter to four
Original Lyrics: You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four
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"Stairway To The Stars"
The Nonsensical Lyrics: Let's build a stairway to the stars
Why They're Nonsensical: Stairways can't be built from the Earth to celestial objects.
Submitted by: Candy Welty
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"Chattanooga Choo-choo"
The Lyrics: Dinner in the diner --
Nothing could be finer Than to have your ham and eggs in Carolina. Why: "Carolina" refers to the two-state area made up of North Carolina and South Carolina. In song, it is so referred to much more often than either of the two Carolinas is specifically referred to. An article about this song on Wikipedia indetifies three historical trains (none actually named "Chattanooga Choo-choo") that might fit the song's overall discription as qualifying as the train so informally named. It also says that the song's title train has also been incorrectly identified at times with the Southern Railroad's Crescent. If any particular lines in the song are resposible for that confusion, it must be these. That is because the Crescent actually went through the Carolinas, while the other three trains in question, which actually went to Chattanooga, did not. The Crescent still has a counterpart today, the Amtrack Crescent, while no passenger trains any longer run on the probable Chattanooga Choo-choo route where it doesn't follow the same route. What I've heard called the "main line" of the Southern Railway extended from Washington, DC, south through Lynchburg, Virginia; Greensboro and Charlotte, North Carolina; Spartanburg and Greenville, South Carolina; Atlanta, Georgia; Birmingham, Alabama; Meridian and Hattiesburg, Mississippi; and on to New Orleans, Louisiana. Historically other passenger trains as well as the Crescent ran that route route; today the Crescent is the only one that follows all of that route, today part of the Norfolk Southern Railway. When today's Crescent stops at Atlanta, is is about 110 miles form Chattanooga, the closest that any passenger train stops today to the train destination made so famous by this song. The historical "Chattanooga Choo-choo" route followed the Crescent route as far south as Lynchburg, Virginia, but south of there went instead to Bristol, on the Virginia - Tennessee, border, then on, through Knoxville, Tennessee, to Chattanooga. It missed the Carolinas, making these lines of the song problematic, unless the singer is lamenting that he WON'T be having his ham and eggs in the Carolinas. But if, indeed, nothing could be finer, there could have been ways, by changes of train, to make the journey to Chattanooga via the Carolinas. One possibility was to continue on one of the trains on the Crescentt route southward to Salisbury, North Carolina. There a branch of the then Southern (now Norfolk Southern) Railway turns off and goes through Asheville, North Carolina to Knoxville, Tennessee, and points beyond. It is still an active freight line today, but ceased any passenger service by around 1970, about the time passenger trains also stopped going to Chattanooga. With that option, one would rejoin the Chattanooga Choo-choo route at Knoxville to go on southwestward to Chattanooga. Another option would invilve staying on the Crescent route on to Spartanburg, South Carolina. There one would catch a train on a route that went northwest from there to join the route of the previous option at Asheville. Alas, for those wishing to see more passenger service restored, it probably could never happen on that route, as for the last decade or so, part of the tracks between Spartanburg and Asheville have been removed. That included the famous or infamous "Saluda Grade" by the town of Salude, NC, once known for being the steepest grade on any through railroad of the U.S. Problems associated with that may well be why the Norfolk Southeren Railway decided to discontinue the route. Lastly, an option in the song's day would have been to ride the Crescent route all the way to Atlanta and then catch another train northwestward to Chattanooga.
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
| "Chattanooga Choo-choo"
The Lyrics: "You leave the Pennsylvania Station 'bout a quarter to four,
Read a magazine, and then you're in Baltimore. Why: Refers to the city of Baltimore, Maryland. This song is about a train journey to Chattanooga , Tennessee, usually presumed to be from New York City, perhaps since that is where the most famous Pennsylvania Station is. That station, or any other so named in any other city is named because it was served by the Pennsylvania Railroad. The state of Pennsylvania is only indirectly referred to here, considering that the direct reference is to a station probably not in Pennsylvania, so named becaues it was served by a rail line not limited to Pennsylvania in terms of where its lines were located. Since around 1970, no passenger trains go to Chattanooga anymore. Contrary to a belief often generated by this song, there was never a train with tne name "Chattanooga Choo-choo", but once upon a time the Southern Railroad ran three passenger trains along the route mostly implied by the song, those trains being called the Pelican, the Birmingham Special, and the Tennessean. They travelled Southern's own lines between Washington, DC and Lynchburg, Virginia, and again between Bristol, on the Virginia - Tennessee border, and Chattanooga. Between Lynchburg and Bristol, those trains changed engines, to be run by the Norfolk and Western Railway. Since then, the Southern and the Norfolk and Western lines have been part of a merger, to form the Norfolk Southern Railway. But despite this route's being now all part of the same system from Washington to Chattanooga, no passenger service exists anymore on any portion of that route south of Lynchburg.
Submitted by: Penelope Beckinsale
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