During a road trip to Maine last weekend we were playing an Oldies CD. One song came on that really puzzled me. The chorus kept singing “whose L.A. Gazette?” I asked my husband why this band was so hung up on whose newspaper it was. He burst out laughing and said, “It’s “Whose Cadillac Is That”, not whose LA Gazette!” Leave it to a librarian to put a literary spin on a rock song. This from a guy who thought “Radar Love” was Red Eye Love.
Anyway, it reminded me of an amusing web site you might enjoy; Kiss This Guy; the Archive of misheard lyrics. It gets its name from a misunderstood Jimi Hendrix lyric in “Purple Haze”. It’s happened to us all. Before this incident, I thought Eric Clapton was singing “Croquet”.
Bonus points to those of you who know which band sang “Whose Cadillac Is That”!
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I thought of the Kiss This Guy website when I read the entry for the new Merriam-Webster words and saw "Mondegreen" (for misunderstood lyrics). In my family, we call it "Chronic Lyricosis."
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