Rock School; Covers Changed Words

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Adams, Adam Lee, Adamowski, Buehler, Burns, Burns, Burns. Skulls, I fall in love, I've got a fan, so paid, I'm a teacher. Hey Joe, where you going with that mic in your hand? It's time for school, Rock School, with your hosts Dr. Joe Burns. Well, that's not fun to sing. Well, that's a little over the top -zone shit thing. Bring it back. It's class, is it? This is the Rock School radio show in the Rock School radio network. My name is Joe Burns, you are. Tammy Burns. And we are brought to you by the good people at the CPB, at least in part, at the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting. Okay, this is a show where I was looking for a different topic, found a few of them, but a better topic came out of it. There was one of these stories that comes down on all these music feeds that I have, and a person was pointing out when songs were being sung by a person of a different gender, meaning I kissed a girl by Katy Perry, has been redone by a band called Cobra Starship and they changed it to I kissed a boy. Okay. Okay, fine. And the question was, should you do that, should you not do that, when the country artist redid the Tracy Chapman song, he kept everything the same, you know, fast car, by Tracy Chapman, he kept everything the same, even some changes in gender. Okay, fine. The thing is, I didn't find as many of those as I found just people, and this is one of those we need a better hobby, but pointing out how
a remake of a song changed the lyrics to suit the regular band. For example, Gloria Gainer, she has a song and she says, I should have changed that stupid lot, right? Right. Well, there's a band called Cake and they redid it, and they say, I should have changed that effing lock. Okay. I don't know that that's huge or not. Diane Crawl redid Billy Joel's just the way you are, and it says in the Billy Joel version, I couldn't love you any better. She sings it as I just want someone that I can talk to, which has got to mean something to somebody. But I'm telling you, the real fun ones, and I have a few of them, are people that covered rock songs that really aren't rock singers. Obviously, you know Simon and Garfunkels, Mrs. Robinson. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Hided in a hiding place where no one ever goes, put it in your pantry with your cupcakes. You have to sing it. It's a little secret, just the Robinson's affair. Damn. Most of all, you've got to hide
it from the kids, right? Right. Did you know Frank Sinatra covered it? No. He has. He changes the lyrics to the PTA, Mrs. Robinson. Won't okay the way you do your thing, ding, ding, ding. Wow, that almost sounds dirty coming from him, right? No. Instead of singing Jesus loves you more than you will know. And God bless you, please. He writes, or he sings, Frank Sinatra, Jilly loves you more than you will know. And oh, bless you, please. Mrs. Robinson. It sounds like he just screwed it up and didn't mean to. And they just recorded it. You gonna tell him? No. You gonna tell him? No, walk out telling Frank that. And this is one of those things I could talk into somebody at lunch and they're like, oh, I'd love to hear that. Hey. Did you like to hear it? I'd like to. I got it. Here's Frank. As we talk about change lyrics, some rock songs. And here's to you Mrs. Robinson. Jilly loves you more than you will
know. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Oh, bless you, please. Mrs. Robinson. Heaven holds a place for those who pray. Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey. We'd like to know a little bit about you for our files. We'd like to help you learn to help yourself. Look around you all you see are sympathetic eyes. Stole around the grounds until you feel at home the PTA. Mrs. Robinson won't okay the way you do your thing. Ding, ding, ding. And you'll get your Mrs. Robinson
pulling with that young stuff like you do. Whoa, whoa, whoa. So how's your bird Mrs. Robinson? Then the Mrs. Robinson you say. Hey, hey, hey. Well, have you heard Mrs. Robinson? Mine is fine as wine and I should know. Whoa, whoa, whoa.
Oh, bless you, please. Mrs. Robinson. Heaven holds a place for those who pray. Hey, hey, hey. Mrs. Robinson. Keep them caught and let us come in, Robbie Davie. Okay, we're doing just a fun one today. I found multiple websites that talked about what a covers lyrics did. How was it changed? And a lot of them are people who are not in the genre redoing it and changing it. Some of them aren't obviously Amy Grant covered big yellow taxi. Yeah. And I'm talking about the original version by Joni Mitchell says charged people a dollar and a half just to see him. Well, apparently Amy Grant believes there has been some inflation. Wait, let me, let me guess. 25 bucks just to see him. Yeah, 25 bucks just to see
him. I don't know, a buck and a half. I'd pay that to see him, but not 25 dollars. The Blues Brothers, the cover of Soulman that they did. The original goes, I was educated at Woodstock, which is it's really something because a lot of people are of the opinion. Woodstock hadn't happened yet. Did Sam and Dave know about Woodstock happening previous? And you wondered about that, but they said no. The Blues Brothers changed it to good or changed it to. I was educated from good stock. Nice. Like my parents are people who should have procreated strong. Another one here. Nirvana did a version of David Bowies, the man who sold the world. The original is I searched for form and land. For years and years I roamed. I gazed a gazedless stare at all the millions here. We must have died alone. Fine. What does Kurt Cobain say? I searched for form land for years and years I
roamed. I gazed a gazedly stare. We walked a million hills. I must have died alone. It's not that big a change, but fans who like both songs hear the whole thing. Now the fun one. You obviously know satisfaction by the Rolling Stones. Right. When I'm watching my TV and a man comes on it tells me how white my shirts can be. Then the third verse says, when I'm riding around the world and I'm doing this and I'm signing that and I'm trying to make some girl. Right? Okay. It was redone by Otis Redding. I mean, I can read to you what the lyrics are. Okay. Whatever why won't you wait for time this little girl trying to put me down? There's a couple other ones on here. But you can't even figure out where they went. Why? Well, when it came out, Otis Redding was asked, why did you make these changes? And what do your lyrics mean? He said, quote, I use a lot of words different from the Stones version. That's because I made them up. The story goes
that Redding and a couple other people were in the studio and were listening to the song. And they could not decipher exactly what the heck Mick Jagger was saying. So they just made it up. Made it up as they went. Oh my gosh. This is Otis Redding. Satisfaction on Rock School. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't.
I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I can't. I cannot. I can't even know no to tell you the lesson I tried, I tried, I tried, I tried, I tried, I can't even know, no, no, no,
no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no I'm talking about songs that have changes to the cover version. Do you remember the song Mr. Bojangles, the nitty -gritty dirt band? Yes. They did not write that song. It's a remake and there's multiple changes. The big one
is and he spoke right out and as the smoke ran out. That was all chain. You're from the original version of it, you know, Bill Haley, Shake, Rattlin' Roll. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Big Joe Turner was the guy that did it and what's really funny about it is when you look at the two songs, Big Joe Turner's is dirty. He's had a one night stand and he's telling the woman to get out of his bed, get into that kitchen and rattle them pots and pans. That's right. Make me some food. That's the actual song. I'm hungry. This idea of Shake, Rattlin' Roll being done by Bill Haley in the comments is wrong. It's whitewashing. It's the idea of we can't have an African -American man saying this on the radio and so they found this squeaky, clean country singer to do this. What's really funny is if you listen the line, I'm like a one -eyed cat peeping in a seafood store,
somehow survives the censorship. I know, right. I mean, do I have to draw you a picture? No, you please. Of this thing? Please don't draw. I know. And the one we're going to play. Uh -huh. I know the world is losing their mind over the album Cowboy Carter from Beyoncé. She made a country album. Okay. So what? Now let's make a classical album. Now let's make a what -have -you show you have this wide availability. If I had her money, I would make one of all of them and keep going, have fun, girl. Beyoncé children songs. She knows what came previous. Right. A lot of people look at her videos and you can see where she took them from. Why don't you sing some classics? Oh, nice. Seriously. Sing at a James and that kind of stuff. I think that'd be great. But she's got this country album. And the reason I want to play this one is do you remember I used to play guitar behind a jazz singer named Naomi? Yeah. We played this song. It's Dolly Parton's, you know, I'm begging you, please don't take my man, Jolie. Oh, yeah. And Naomi would not
sing it until she addressed the audience and told them this is not me. If a guy doesn't want me, he can just go and I'm thinking to myself and I even said it to her, why do you do that every time? Just sing the song. Oh, no, no, no, no, no. Well guess who redid it? Beyoncé. Yes, she did. It's not a bad version either. However, if you listen to the original Dolly Parton version, Dolly Parton is afraid of Jolie. Please don't come around here with your feminine wiles and take my man just because you can. You have no idea what he means to me. That's right. Right. Beyoncé is not going to do that. The entire song is a warning. I'm warning you don't come take my man. The games you play are nothing new so you don't want no heat with me, Jolie. So basically we're looking for a fight. Well, sometimes you just got a fight. Would you fight for me? Absolutely. Really?
No. Can I set it up? Yes. Yes. Here's Beyoncé. Jolie. Jolie. Jolie. Jolie. I'm warning you don't come for my man. Jolie. Jolie. Jolie. Jolie. Don't take the chance because you think you can. You'll be the fool beyond compare. Takes more than beauty and seductive stance to come between a family and a happy man. Jolie. I'm a woman too. The games you play are nothing new so you don't want no heat with me, Jolie. We've been deep in love for 20 years. I raised that man. I raised his kids. I know my man. Better than he knows himself.
I can easily understand why you're attracted to my man. But you don't want the smarts to shoot your chef with someone else. Jolie. Jolie. Jolie. Jolie. I'm warning you woman. Find you your own man. Jolie. I know. I'm a queen. Jolie. I'm a queen. I'm still a pre -all bandage bitch from Louisiana. Try me. There's a thousand girls in every room that act as desperate as you do. You will burn, go on and sing your tune, Jolie. What? I had to have this talk with you because I hate to have to act as fool. Your peace depends on how you move, darling. I'm a queen. Me, my man, cross those valleys, high and low, and everything between. You'll be rolling
like tumbling wheat. I sleep good happy because you paint your gut by what plants you see. And no more mayors don't stand by me with an imaginal breeze. I've crossed those valleys, high and low, and everything between. You'll be rolling like tumbling wheat. You'll be rolling like tumbling wheat. You'll be rolling like tumbling wheat. I'm a standby, I'm a standby. Me, Jolie. I'm a standby, I'm a standby. Me, Jolie. I'm a standby, I'm a standby. Coming into the second break, I have to have a few of these around here. I'm going to play this
one later on, but I'll tell you about it now. Do you know the song by Peggy Lee? You give me fever, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Little Willie John is actually who recorded it first. And I want to play for you because everyone knows her fever. And then she had a black dress and a whole smile. And then little, you know what, here. Let me play for you just a little bit of Little Willie John's original version of it. And you'll hear, she's changed it a lot. Here you go. Listen to me, baby. Hear every word I say. No one can love me the way I do. Cause they don't know how to love you. I'll wear you, give me fever. When you kiss me fever, when you're holding tight. There you go. That's Little Willie John's. And I don't know. Did you make
it better? No. You wonder. A guy who writes a song like Robert Johnson, obviously. No, he's not around anymore. But he wrote Sweet Home Chicago. And then most people know the Blues Brothers, Sweet Home Chicago. They are not the same song. I don't know. Do you have to stick with the original? Are you not allowed to say the remake is better? No, you can't. Absolutely. I guess you can't. All right. Remember Manford Man's revved up like a douche? Yes. Yep. Which everybody thought was wrapped up. Okay. You know it. You mean somebody redid this one? Oh, obviously. Bruce Springsteen wrote Blinded by the Light. Manford Man's Earth Band redid it. You see the douche comment wrapped up like a douche. And from what I understand and being a man, is it wrapped up? I mean, I know what the word means, but I don't know what it's wrapped up. I don't know what it is. Yeah, if you know what it is. It's man speak. I don't know what they're talking about. But in reality, the original lyric was
cut loose like a douche, meaning a little douche coupe, a car. Right. And Manford Man went cut loose. Let's change that to rev it up like a douche. And we still screwed it up. You know the song by Alice Cooper schools out for summer? Yes. There's a line right at the end of schools. Bend blown to pieces. Well, Crocus redid the silly thing. And you would think Crocus would curse and do all those things. No, they changed schools been blown to pieces to school is out for recess. Lame. Were they afraid? Lame. I'll give you one last one here. Foo Fighters redid Baker Street. Yes. What's interesting about the Baker Street that they did, that famous saxophone part, is done by a guitar. It's beautiful. That's how it was originally intended to be done. Jerry Rafferty
just didn't have a guitarist come in. I'm sure Rafferty could have done it, but it's that old Frank Zappa adage. Why should I play it okay when I can bring in a pro who will play it wonderfully? So the guy didn't show up and Rafael Ravenscroft is down the hall and he's like, oh, what are you looking for? And he's saying it too many. I can do that. And he went. So if you want to hear the way it was originally supposed to be done, that is the Baker Street that the Foo Fighters do and they do make one change in the lyrics. There's that line. He's going to give up the booze and the one night stands, right? Right. They, Foo Fighters, sing it. He's going to give up the crack and the one night stands, reflecting what was happening at the time here in Murca. Who's listening to us? That would be K -W -I -T, K -Q -I -T, Sue, City, Iowa. Excellent. Thank you very much. Back in a minute here on Rock School. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That's it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. They're coming out of the first brake cranberries. They have a song called Zambi, where D, the lead singer sings it with their tanks and their bombs and their bombs
and their guns. They do enough. Excellent. They're doing excellent. Yeah. A group named Bad Wolves came along and changed the third line of the pre -chorus too with their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their drones. Oh. Yeah, that makes sense. Okay. It does to me. Keeping up with the times. Oh, yeah, Duff. Redid the who's talking about my generation. I really would think that that song would be redone by just about every generation. Yeah. There's a Gen Z. There's a Gen X. Remember the oldest song to the oldest human being to go to number one was 102 when all those people in the nursing home redid it. Right. The drummer was 102. Was he really? Yeah. Wow. He's the oldest fella to make it to the top of the chart. Well, Duff redid it and the thing is hope I die before I get old. That's the original one. That was that. What do you call it? You know, don't trust anyone over 30.
Right. All that kind of stuff. And now Roger Daltry's pushing 80 and he's going out on his own to do a little thing. You know, hey, great. Well, Duff redid it. And she apparently did not hit 30 yet. And she and I hope I don't die before I get old. And you know, in the original where they go talking about my generation, baby, right? She just went my generation. That's it. And you know, that's not terrible. Right. I understand doing that in concert. You could get the audience to scream along with you. And I think that would be, you know, wonderful. I got one more four year. Remember we started the show with old blue eyes. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Okay. He keeps doing stuff. No, no, it's not blue eyes. Actually, I do have one, but he's the original. Bing Crosby covered Hey Jude by the Beatles. Wow. And you say, okay, that's weird. What change could there be? What's the most famous lyric from Hey Jude? No, no, no,
no, no, no, no. I get it. It's a single syllable. But if you've ever seen him in concert, you've got 50 ,000 people all singing this thing with him. Oh, yeah. But on Bing Crosby's version of Hey Jude, he goes, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump, pump. Well, that kind of fits him. It does. It does. I don't know that it fits the song, just like my friend at lunch. I want to hear that. I do too. Do you like to hear it? I like it. Oh, it's Bing on Roxby. Hey Jude, don't make it bad. Take a side song and make it better. Remember the lettering to your heart
that you can start to make it better. Hey Jude, don't be afraid. You were made to go out and get her. The man you let her under your skin and you begin to make it better. And anytime you feel a pain hitting your brain, don't care in the world above your shoulder. So now you know that it's a fool to make it better. Hey Jude,
don't let me down. You would find her now together. Remember the lettering to your heart that you can start to make it better. So now you know that it's a fool So now you know that it's a fool to make it better. Hey Jude, don't make it better. Take a side
song and make it better. Remember the lettering to your heart that you can start to make it better. Remember the lettering to your heart that you can start to make it better. Welcome to the bottom of the hour.
We're going to do seven days here in just a second. But Joan Jett changed a good portion of D .C.'s dirty deeds under cheap when she did it. And this was one of the original songs. If you remember the beginning of the show, I was trying to follow up on a post where if you make a remake, do you change the genders that are in it? Well she actually does. Where's the, where's the, I'm looking at her lyrics right here. It's enough to drive and nuts. Now that's, this is the A .C. D .C. Pick up the phone, leave her alone. It's time you made a stand for a free. I'm happy to be your backdoor man. That's the original. Well that's pretty male. So she changed it's enough to drive you nuts. Pick up the phone, leave him alone. It's time you made a stand for a fee. I'm happy to play your nighttime plan. Okay. That's pretty much it. I would have just left it. Yeah, no. Let me
give you one more here. The Johnny Cash. The original lyric to nine -inch nails hurt. I wear this crown of S -word upon my lair's chair. Whereas he changes it to, I wear this crown of thorns upon my lair's chair. So he just didn't want to make the curse word. Okay. I can understand that. Let's do seven days. We'll come back with big mom of Thornton here on the Rock School radio show. These are the dates. June 10th, all the way through June 16th. You got Monday, Tammy, go. June 10th, 2007. In the last scene of the HBO series, The Sopranos, Don't Stop Believe in By Journey plays on the jukebox while Tony Sopranos sits at the Donner. June 11th, 1966. Donovan becomes the first rock star busted for drugs by the newly vigilant London Drug Squad. June 12, 2015. Dave Grohl falls off the stage and breaks his leg during a food fighter's show and Sweden. He gets a medical attention, but
returns to finish the show, propped up while someone holds his leg. The person who is holding his leg should have pretended it was a guitar. Can you imagine that? It's drumming it out, out, out, out. June 13th, 1969. At a press conference in London, Mick Taylor is introduced as the new guitars to the Rolling Stones, replacing Brian Jones. June 14, 1996. Beatles producer George Martin is nodded by Queen Elizabeth No. 2. And June 15th, 2014. American Top 40 host Casey Kasim dies at age 82. June 16th, 1980. The movie The Blues Brothers premieres in Chicago. Two years earlier, the movie adaptation hit Broadway musical Greece, starring John Travolta, and Olivia Newtron Bama. Okay, when you think of the song, Houndog. You think of Elvis, well, I hope you do, because that helps the show. You think of Elvis Presley calling a woman, Houndog. You ain't never caught a rabbit. You ain't no friend of mine. Well, here's the thing,
calling a woman a dog. I think means she's unattractive. Oh, yeah, I think you're right. Calling a man a dog means he's really sexually active. And there's so many other words that go along with it, which is why if you hear the original, the Elvis Presley version, although catchy, doesn't quite line up. She makes statements like, you can wag your tail, but I ain't gonna feed you no more. Wink, wink. We're always cooking. And daddy, I know you ain't no real cool cat. Nothing about catching a rabbit. If you haven't heard the original, go ahead. Try singing along with it in the Elvis Presley lyrics. You'll find Big Mom, Thornton much more dirty. Now, look, it isn't WAP. But the fact remains, everything was, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink, wink. Nudge, nudge, nudge. She go. It's Big Mom, Thornton, Unrocks go. You ain't nothing but a home dog. They snoop along the dog.
You ain't nothing but a home dog. They snoop along the dog. You can wag your tail. But I ain't gonna feed you no more. You don't mean what I can. But I can see through that. You don't mean what I can. But I can see through that. And daddy, I know you ain't no real cool cat. You ain't nothing but a home dog. Wink, snoop along the dog. You just go home dog. Wink, snoop along the dog. You can wag your tail. But I ain't gonna feed you no more. Oh, Big Mom. Oh, it's not
them all how no. Oh, baby, it's all right on here. I just ran into a home dog. Woo. Oh, Big Mom. Oh, it makes you feel good. Oh, do the mess around and love you. I wed your tail. I'll get it. I'll get it. I'll get it. You made me feel so good. You made me weeping more. You made me feel so blue. You made me weeping more. Cause
you ain't looking fine all night. Are you looking at the fog? You ain't nothing but a home dog. Wink, snoop along the dog. You ain't nothing but a home dog. You ain't nothing but a home dog. You ain't nothing but a home dog. Oh, Big Mom. Coming into the second break. Let's talk about the song. I thought the law and the law won. Bobby Fuller 4 is probably who jumps immediately to mind. But I also know that the crickets did it first. Now, yes, Bobby Fuller redid it. But that's the one everybody knows. So when the song is redone, this will be the third time, obviously. But it's really the Bobby Fuller 4 that they're playing around with. The dead Kennedys did it.
And instead of the line about fighting the law and the law winning, it said the law don't mean S word. If you've got the right friends, this is how the countries run. Okay. And then instead of robbing people with a six gun, I blew George and Harvey's brains out with my six gun. Well, that's not fun to sing. Well, that's a little over the top. Don't you think? Bring it back. You know the song by Don Henley Boys of Summer? Oh, yeah. There's a line in where he goes dead head sticker on a Cadillac. Okay. I was in a band for a little while with other professors. We wanted to do this song. And our drummer said, have you heard the Atari's version? And what was great about it? It was a pretty good equal redoing of it. But the Atari's were doing it with instruments that were sort of equal to ours. So all that. was being done with the guitar. And we're like, okay, yeah, that's a better version for us to do. And it was made clear that we have to sing the Atari's version because it says black flag sticker on a
Cadillac rather than dead head sticker. To our drummer, that was very important. So we all went, yeah, okay. And here's the one again with Frank Sinatra. You know the song My Way? Absolutely. And I'll make it clear. And on and on and on. Yes. It was redone by Sid Vicious, original member. Well, not original. He actually was not one of the original ones. Yeah, but he came in as a bass player for the Sex Pistols. Well, when he went out on his own and needed to make some money, he was in a movie over in Europe and they had him sing My Way. By the way, this is really easy to find. I've seen it. On YouTube. It's terrible. Yeah. Instead of saying my friend, I'll say it clear. He says, you see word. I'm not a cue word. And at the end, when Frank Sinatra goes, the record shows I took the blows and did it My Way. He, Vicious said, the record shows I F word. A bloke. And did it My Way. Did we have a hit with it? Yes. I mean, it was a huge hit.
As a matter of fact, the thing is he needed the money quickly. He had already made his way back to the USA when the money arrived. Because he's like, I don't have any cash. I paid my money to get over here and do this movie. Right. Well, this has got to get on the charts first. But somebody paid for him to come back to the US and they went into the Chelsea Hotel and the rest is history. Who's listening to us? New Wilmington P .A. Europlace. Don't do it. Westminster College. Don't mispronounce all the W's. Never even said it. Go ahead. No. Me do it? No. No one does it. Westminster. That's Westminster College. That's WNW. Ah. Where I did my first radio show. I do it, didn't you? And during my first radio show, I cursed on the air. I'm not kidding you. It's good story. Which by the way, will be in my book. Which comes out later this year. Yeah. It's called, we'll try and get it on for you. I'm not going to say anything else about it. Because when it comes out, I am going to inundate every one of you with it. You will. Oh, you should give some away
free on the air. Absolutely. Absolutely. And maybe some of the audio book, which by the way, I've started recording. Okay, are we done? Are we going to do a break? Yeah, we got to do a break. Back in a minute, here in Rockscore. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. Coming out of the break, this is one that you may have already heard about. A guy named Jake Holmes was a folk singer. At the same time the yard birds were playing. And we know for a fact, and I only know this, because there was a lawsuit and now Jake Holmes is actually listed as an author. On the song, Dazed and Confused. We know the two of them were in the same venue. We know Jake Holmes opened for the Arbards, and that's the reason he won the lawsuit, okay? The song, Dazed and Confused, by Jake Holmes, was covered by the Arbards, but never recorded. They didn't change the words, but they did keep most of the original lyrics. However, when the Yard Birds broke up for a short while, and Jimmy Page took off to his new group, obviously Led Zeppelin, he and I'm going to guess Robert Plant as well, drastically
altered the lyrics. Something, I know it's Led Zeppelin, I get it, beam of light from heaven, but they did take from a lot of songs and have lost a good many lawsuits because of it. This is one of them. So when you listen to Jake Holmes' version of Dazed and Confused, I know where your brain's going to go. It's going to go right to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, and you're going to open your mouth, and wrong words are going to come out. Oh, I love that. Here you go. Jake Holmes, Dazed and Confused on Rock School. Just like in the Wolf, you need a clue as to where I am at. Feel like a mouse and you're at like a cat.
I'm Dazed and Confused hanging on by a thread. I'm fear the views I've been fed off with it. And stand as keys and I'm starting to crack. You're out to give me your all the right track. I'm going to go to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, and I'm going to go to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, and I'm going to go to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, and I'm
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and I'm going to go to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, and I'm going to go to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, and I'm going to go to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, and I'm going to go to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, and I'm going to go to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, and I're going to go to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, and I'm going to go to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, and I'm going to go to the Led Zeppelin lyrics, Coming into the last break, let me give you everything I got left on these pieces of paper, sweet dreams by the U -Rhythmics. No. No. It was redone. It can't be redone. Some of them want to use you, some of them want to get used by you, some of them want to abuse you, some of them want to be abused. Okay. Back and forth, back and forth. Yep. Yep. Marilyn Manson redid it. And it was done with it.
Some of them want to. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He changed it to be, instead of talking about people in the third person, he talked about himself. I want to use you and abuse you. I want to know what's inside you. Gross. Moving on. Hold your head up. Moving on. Hold your head up. He kind of flips the wording around in there as well. But it's one of those things when you listen to it, it's so blatantly Marilyn Manson. Yeah. Yeah. We didn't start the fire. Billy Joel. Right. He says we didn't start the fire. No, we didn't light it. But we tried to fight it. We'll cover, our Fallout boys covered it and did a nice cover up it as well. But instead of saying we tried to fight it, they said we're still trying to fight it. Okay. Okay. Yeah. And they're not wrong. Right. They're not wrong. Britney Spears womanizer. Mm -hmm. There's the line. You say I'm crazy. I got your crazy. Right. Yes. It's my favorite line in that song. The All American Rejects redid it. And I'm begging of you, if I got time, I will play the All American Rejects because they change the
lyrics and they start talking to Kevin Fetterline saying, K -Fed, you should have signed a prenup and blah, blah, blah. No. I can't do it to you, you womanizer. There's a couple other things. Well, that's terrible. And instead of, you know, you say I'm crazy, I got your crazy. They start to sing the turtle song so happy together. It's really weird. It's really weird. In fact, I'm going to keep that piece of paper close because if I have time to play two songs out of this last break, I'm going to play that one. What else we got here? Do you know the song? Get it on. Bang a gun. Get it on. Oh, yeah. You have to listen to the T -Rex version. I mean, that's the one I know best. But the power station redid it and it's not even the same song. And it's one of those where I'm not sure they listened to the song. They just went off of each other's memory, which, you know, what lyrics should we sing here? Oh. If you ever listen to the bands the night they drove old Dixie down, listen to about half of it and then turn on the night they drove
old Dixie down by Joan Baez. Not the same song. Not the same song. It's supposed to be, but things have gotten changed. Again, I told you this to beginning. I think I told it to you into bottom of the hour. The idea of I was looking for songs that changed gender when they were remade. You know that Aritha Franklin's respect is not original to Aritha Franklin, right? And everybody knows, Angon, do you wrong while you're gone? Angon, do you wrong? Because I don't want to. Angon, all I'm asking is for a little respect when you come home. Okay. That is from a woman's point of view. Platently, she, Aritha Franklin, is a woman. Do you know who did the original version? No. Say Otis Redding. Otis Redding. Right. But that's from a man's point of view. And he says you can do me wrong, honey, if you want to. But only do me wrong, honey, while I'm gone. And I'm asking, is you give it, give it, give it to me when I come home? Yes. That's, see, when she says in her version, Aritha Franklin, to give me my
propers when I get home. Right. I think that was yet a little more metaphor. But I think we all know what propers is. Oh, no, she means respect. Uh -huh. No, she means just rubbing her feet. Oh, I was really scared halfway through that sentence. But there you go. Yeah, again, if I got time, I'll play that all American rejects for you. I'm Joe Burns. I'm Tammy Burns. Yeah, just a fun show, goofing off. Next week, I have something a little more heady for you. OK, that's it. Class is dismissed. Next week, I have something a little more heady, heady, heady, heady,
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some Recypes in my shoes... Give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss,
give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, give us a kiss, The boy don't try to front the eye, don't just just what you are, you got me going, you're also chopping, you're nothing but a womanizer, daddy old, you got the swagger of a champion, too bad for you, you just can't find the right companion, guess when you have one too many makes it hard, it could be easy who you are, it's just who you are, baby, a lollipop, yes it means you're the sucker to think that I would be a victim, not another,
say it, play it how you want it, but no way I'm ever gonna fall for you, whenever you, baby, a womanizer, womanizer, you're a womanizer, oh, womanizer, oh, you're a womanizer, baby, you, you are, you, you, you are, a womanizer, womanizer, The boy don't try to front the eye, don't just just what you are, the boy don't try to front the eye, don't just just what you are, you got me going, you're also chopping, you're nothing but a womanizer, the boy don't try to front the eye, don't just just what you are, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you're nothing but a womanizer, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you get me crazy, you got me crazy, you got me crazy, you and you for
me so I'll be together The bottle tried to front and I know just just what you are But I tried to front and I know just just what you are You got me going, you're also charming You're nothing but a woman eyes The bottle tried to front and I know just just what you are But I tried to front and I know just just what you are You got me crazy, I'll give you crazy You're nothing but a woman eyes The woman eyes are your woman eyes are oh Woman eyes are oh Your old woman eyes are big You got me crazy, I'll give you crazy You're
nothing but a woman eyes Another hand slowly tried to slowly take care And the violence causes silence who are we mistaken But you see it's not me, it's not my family In your head, in your head, they are fighting With their tanks and their bombs and their bombs And their drones in your head, in your head, they are crying
What's in your head?
- Series
- Rock School
- Episode
- Covers Changed Words
- Producing Organization
- KSLU
- Contributing Organization
- KSLU (Hammond, Louisiana)
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- Covers Changed Words
- Broadcast Date
- 2024-06-16
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- Music
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- Duration
- 00:59:00.036
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- Chicago: “Rock School; Covers Changed Words,” 2024-06-16, KSLU, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC, accessed July 1, 2025, http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-845cf69ad70.
- MLA: “Rock School; Covers Changed Words.” 2024-06-16. KSLU, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Web. July 1, 2025. <http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-845cf69ad70>.
- APA: Rock School; Covers Changed Words. Boston, MA: KSLU, American Archive of Public Broadcasting (GBH and the Library of Congress), Boston, MA and Washington, DC. Retrieved from http://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-845cf69ad70