| To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist> Subject: Re: misheard lyrics Date sent: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:24:24 -0500 Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>
Thanks to all for straightening me out on this one. I'm amazed to say that I never heard this song before this year, though I've been listening to pop all along. I'm always surprised when someone unknowingly refers to an older pop song currently popularized by its cover artist, (like the miserable cover of Harry Nilson's "Can't live if living is without you" by a female pop singer whose name I have blocked from my conscious mind) as though that version were the original.
Susan Schneider
-----Original Message----- From: John Cheshire
> Here's a pop lyric I can't figure out: is it "Pulling muscles for Michelle" > or "Pulling mussles from a shell"? Don't know the group or the song. It's > been out maybe a year or so.
It's been out maybe a year or so? Well, maybe a cover of it has, but the original was out more like 20 years ago! written by Glenn Tilbrook and Chris Difford, from the 1980 album "Argybargy."- It is "Pulling Mussels ( from the shell )" 'But behind the chalet my holiday's complete, and I feel like William Tell, Maid Marion on her tiptoed feet, pulling mussels from the shell' by Squeeze. Squeeze had a number of hits including the classic "Up the Junction" - 'I never thought it would happen, with me and the girl from Clapham, out on the windy common, that night I aint forgotten....."
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