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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2006, 10:06:46 AM »
the last 4 Turkey Days gave us:

2002
1.) Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
2.) Sweet - Little Willie
3.) Marcels - Blue Moon
4.) Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown
5.) Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
6.) Beatles - You Know My Name (Look Up the Number)
7.) Taco - Puttin' on the Ritz
8.) Hot Butter - Popcorn
9.) Tokens - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
10.) Carl Douglas - Kung Fu Fighting

2003
1.) Trio - Da Da Da (I Don't Love You, You Don't Love Me, Aha Aha Aha)
2.) Sweden Heaven & Hell Soundtrack - Mah-Na-Mah-Na
3.) Chakachas - Jungle Fever
4.) Paula Cole - Where Have All The Cowboys Gone
5.) Ricky Martin - Shake Your Bon Bon
6.) Focus - Hocus Pocus
7.) Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
8.) Nails - 88 Lines About 44 Women
9.) Elvis Presley - Teddy Bear
10.) M - Pop Muzik

2004
1.) Sweden Heaven & Hell Soundtrack - Mah-Na-Mah-Na
2.) Monkees - I'm Gonna Buy Me a Dog
3.) Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
4.) Focus - Hocus Pocus
5.) Dave & Ansel Collins - Double Barrel
6.) Ricky Martin - Livin' La Vida Loca
7.) Marcels - Blue Moon
8.) M - Pop Muzik
9.) Hot Chocolate - You Sexy Thing
10.) Reunion - Life is a Rock

2005
1.) Kool & the Gang - Jungle Boogie
2.) Chumbawamba - Tubthumping
3.) Sweden Heaven & Hell Soundtrack - Mah-Na-Mah-Na
4.) Trio - Da Da Da (I Don't Love You, You Don't Love Me, Aha Aha Aha)
5.) Focus - Hocus Pocus
6.) Vapors - Turning Japanese
7.) Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown
8.) Blue Swede - Hooked on a Feeling
9.) Dexy's Midnight Runner - Come On Eileen
10.) Tony Basil - Mickey
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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2006, 10:07:18 AM »
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pre-set, Dave plays Alanis MoreUpset, "Ironic", which actually does qualify as a Turkey in my book. Not understanding the meaning of the title of your song is the definition of "stupid", no?


Sure, it's stupid, but is it good?


point well taken.

Dave starts with "I Wanna Be a Cowboy", yo yo yo. Very nearly a HFH for me.
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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2006, 10:07:48 AM »
Cue Daniel Stern from Diner!
"Music is the Earth, People are the Flowers, and I am the Hose."

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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #18 on: November 22, 2006, 10:08:29 AM »
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Dave starts with "I Wanna Be a Cowboy", yo yo yo. Very nearly a HFH for me.


Not me!  

Ted! Oh Ted!

...course that being my dad's name pro'ly has sumthin' to do with it.
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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #19 on: November 22, 2006, 10:08:37 AM »
A much stronger second tune from Clarence "Frogman" Henry.
"Play the tape machine, make the toast and tea"

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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #20 on: November 22, 2006, 10:12:38 AM »
In seconding Mike's Baltimora request I had also asked that Chumbawumba get the year off.  That was before I realized that it is the only song we've heard for 4 years running, so now I really hope we get something else.

Always nice to hear the Vapors, can someone refresh my memory on what a Cyclone Ranger is?
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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #21 on: November 22, 2006, 10:14:14 AM »
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the last 4 Turkey Days gave us:



I hope Dave actually plays the submitted suggestions this year instead of doing what he did last year (essentially ignoring everybody and playing "classic" Turkeys).

OMFG!  finally "Tarzan Boy"!  Everybody do the yell!


BOS, obviously.
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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #22 on: November 22, 2006, 10:14:22 AM »
Congrats, Mike, ya finally got your wish!!! Your very own turkey, Tarzan Boy!
Let's get right to it.

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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #23 on: November 22, 2006, 10:16:04 AM »
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Congrats, Mike, ya finally got your wish!!! Your very own turkey, Tarzan Boy!

Have to admit I've never heard this before.  Why is it so beloved?  Sounds like a Howard Jones second.
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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #24 on: November 22, 2006, 10:17:06 AM »
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OMFG!  finally "Tarzan Boy"!  Everybody do the yell!


BOS, obviously.


Doing the yell quite loudly, since I'm working from home.  Making my second turkey in 5 days (this one for my kid's first grade class pot-luck).  But no turkey tomorrow, crab & hotpot instead.
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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #25 on: November 22, 2006, 10:17:31 AM »
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Congrats, Mike, ya finally got your wish!!! Your very own turkey, Tarzan Boy!

Have to admit I've never heard this before.  Why is it so beloved?  Sounds like a Howard Jones second.


it was a big hit -- an MTV fave -- and it was turned into a Listerine commercial in the mid-'90s.
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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #26 on: November 22, 2006, 10:18:45 AM »
Yay, Surfing Bird... fun song!!!!
Now I'm eight bits...

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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #27 on: November 22, 2006, 10:18:52 AM »
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Always nice to hear the Vapors, can someone refresh my memory on what a Cyclone Ranger is?


I don't think anyone knows what it means -- Googling tuns up nothing in the way of explanation.
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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #28 on: November 22, 2006, 10:19:45 AM »
OOGAH-CHUKKA!!!

I love the way these Swedes totally mangle the lyrics:

"I'll just stay addicted and hope I can endure" becomes "I'll just stay a bicktin (?) if I can for sure" Yeesh.

BOS2 TMBG!  It's Istanbul, not Constantinople!
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Turkey Day (Nov 22, 2006)
« Reply #29 on: November 22, 2006, 10:20:10 AM »
Blue Swede is BOS for me.  A great version, the jungle sounds notwithstanding.  Or maybe because of them.
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