I can't remember the album (I think it might have been a K-Tel), but the first singles I bought were New Kid in Town--Eagles, and The Things We Do for Love--10CC.
I knew Bruce wrote the song "Pink Cadillac," which was covered by Natalie Cole; but I didn't know he wrote "Fire" for the Pointer Sisters. I also loved "Hungry Heart." Back in the day, Bruce was among the talented and prolific singer/songwriters. You learn something new every day. Thanks Professor!
Because I thought it was “excuse me while I kiss this guy“ I couldn’t stand Hendrix then after I found out what he was really saying, I love this music. I am 59. 🤘♾️☮️♾️🇺🇸
I loved blinded by the light by manfred Mann when I was little it was my favorite song I couldn't get enough of it. My parents said I wanted to hear it over and over again in the late 1970's. Now that I'm older I like both versions of the song. Great show today. Runner was great in the 1984 movie The Philadelphia experiment.
Great video. I was one of those first 25,000 that bought Bruce's first album. So when Manfred Mann did Blinded By The Light, I knew the lyrics. I was constantly trying to tell people they were hearing it wrong. I finally gave up. It is a great song and one of my all time favorites in both versions.
Noooo no! Douche is NOT why that was a Hit. It's because it's a musical masterpiece!! The slow down with that guitar solo before the lyrics: But Mama,,,, that's where the fun is!!! Beautifully done! Thanks Adam! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎🎸🤟🏼
Ha, ha. Yeah I remember. Car guys knew, but you are correct about the argument's caused over "Blinded by the Light" and even censored by some a.m. radio stations in 1970s.
Professor - The first time I heard this song was New Years Eve 1976 by Manfred Mann. I was 8 years old at the time and our older neighbor girl who I think was 12 or 13 at the time was babysitting a bunch of the neighborhood kids as all the adults went to a New Years Eve party. As it was time for her to get all of us kids to settle down and be quiet, she said she'd play some records for us. This was one of the songs, which we kept asking to listen to about 10 times over. Not sure why at that time we all liked that song, maybe the music or rhythm or whatever, but it's definitely been a lasting memory in my mind. Love that song. I wonder what our old neighbor girl Kim is doing now......? Thanks again for bringing back such cherished memories.
I knew which song it was before I watched it. I would play the radio at work when the song was released and an older co-worker would argue with me about what that word was. I clearly heard "deuce" but I couldn't convince her of that. She would grumble about it every time it came on. Great song, I didn't realize Bruce Springsteen wrote it.
As a sound engineer, let me state that the "skewed azimuth" explanation is quite simply... True, in my opinion. Both the "s" sound and the "sh" sound are just white noise, the only difference being the frequency band. And a skewed azimuth CAN turn an "s" into an "sh." That said, it's good to hear Bruce had a sense of humor about the whole thing; In other words, he wasn't a...
Blinded by the Light was a nothing less than a 7 minute long storybook of wild and mysterious images spread out over an utterly fantastic magical musical flying carpet that took my imagination to places that I could've never have visited on my own. See! I can do the fanatical phrase flipping too, prof! LOL. Loved this song as a kid... had no idea what a douche was but my brother did and he'd emphasis that word every time... boy... that got old. Thanks for the memories!
Gotta give Manfred Mann credit on this one they took a song with fantastic lyrics and made it even better, kinda their thing. I can't tell you how many times I have heard the guys in my youth shout that particular lyric every time this song came on. Bruce like Dylan could write some of the best lyrics of our time and the proof is how many songs were reinterpreted musicality that became staples for many artists. Great episode professor, more Bruce!!
@ProfessorofRock Fun story though. I've always wondered how Springsteen kept the label paying to make his albums without big hits before they finally said : ok you need a big hit or else we're cutting you off
27 Oct 1975. Bruce Sprinsteen made the cover of Newsweek and Time on the same day. They predicted a glowing career for him. He really milked a distinctive sound. Like Phil Collins.
I heard an interview with one of them -- I think it was Chris Thompson -- a while back and he seemed to have only a vague idea of what "revved up like a deuce" was supposed to mean, suggesting at one point that it was something like a "doozy". Well, "doozy", a slang term for Duesenberg, would have fit almost as well into the song, since a Duesenberg could also be made into a (rather expensive) hot rod. The confusion just added to the mystique of the record.
LOL!!! Maybe the greatest botched lyrics ever! Love this song. Forgot it was originally about a car. And finally for the first time this week, I am in time for class. Yay me. Thanks for the laugh today, Professor. Awesome shirt today!
I'm a gearhead plus my next door neighbor's Dad had a 32' Ford. I knew the beach boys Little Deuce Coupe. I never thought the blinded by the light lyrics revved up like a douch. My first album was on 8 track Blood Rock
My favorite use of Blinded by the Light in pop culture is on a short-lived Canadian sketch comedy show called The Vacant Lot. These guys are playing poker and arguing about what the lyrics say and they're all getting it wrong. One sings about a french bath towel, another thinks it's about a loufa sponge and another says some kind of nonsense. and the fourth guy snaps and corrects them going "It is BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, RACKED UP LIKE A DEUCE, ANOTHER ROLLER IN THE NIGHT". Of course he screws up the lyrics too and what I love is that it's a joke that only audiophiles like us will get.
I would love to see The Professor do a show about songs containing "mondegreens" in music- misunderstood lyrics which have become well known and often comic twists on the original. The two biggest ones that come to mind are "Scuse me while I kiss this guy" from "Purple Haze" and "There's a bathroom on the right" from "Bad Moon Rising".
The first time I can remember hearing this song when it came out was in elementary advance band dance. I was in 4th grade, but advance band was for 5th and 6th graders. The advantage of being in combination classes. I was the youngest kid at the dance. The older kids were laughing at the lyrics. Since I was naive, and still am at times, they were teasing me. It's what kids do and they were not being mean. I was clueless for the simple fact I didn't know what the word they were hearing meant. It happens when you grow up on a farm as a poor country boy. They asked me what I heard and I said I hear deuce. I still didn't know what that meant. They said that was the correct word, because I think the lyrics was on the back of the album sleeve. I've always liked the song. Great memories!!!
One of the greatest songs of the 70s. I learnt it word for word and still belt it out periodically in the car at the top of my voice. With incorrect lyrics of course :)
Manfred Mann also covered "For You" and I don't know why it's slept on - even completely bypassed here! - because the piano riff + guitar intro is killer! It - the Manfred Mann version - was even turned into a dance remix, just playing the intro, chorus and first verse on repeat (sadly).
Ah that's what I always thought he sang about too 🤭 Where else but here can I get the real explanation! Thanks for the facts Professor! Love Blinded by the Light! 👍
I love the Boss. Had the joy of seeing him in concert five times. My favorite was fifth row in a smaller venue for The Ghost of Tom Joad tour, his solo acoustic tour. I was awestruck. I still tear up every time I watch The E Street Band do "If I Should Fall Behind", knowing that Clarence and Danny are gone. Thank you Adam!
A Deuce refers to only one car, the 1932 (or '32) Ford. It can be any body style. It was and still is the most popular car in hot rodding, the Deuce name refers to the 2 in '32, a deuce is the #2 card in a deck of cards.
LOVE THIS SONG!!! I haven’t even gotten to the part of the video when Adam says the song he’s talking about, but I knew IMMEDIATELY from the thumbnail!!! ❤😊
PoR, you mentioned the Manfred Mann hit song "Runner." This particular song was written by Canada's singer/songwriter Ian Thomas. He also wrote the hit song "Hold On" by Santana. Dave Thomas of SCTV fame is also Ian's brother. Many people probably don't know that Ian Thomas had numerous AOR Canadian radio hit songs since '73. Here is a big catalog list of his best songs of which many of your commenters may find a fave song: 1) Painted Ladies '73 2) Coming Home 3) Come The Sun 4) Long Long Way 5) Time Is The Keeper 6) Liars 7) Pilot 8) Right Before Your Eyes 9) Back To Square One (Great song!) 10) Levity (Great song!) NOTE: Ian also went on to form the band The Boomers. Their best songs are: 1) One Little Word (Great song!) 2) Wishes. Enjoy people!
I knew what song it was by your title!! My nephew swears he's saying the feminine hygiene product and not douce!! I don't blame Springsteen for being mad over it!! Have an awesome day Professor Of Rock!! Cindy Snow
My stepsister used to watch Days of Our Lives and I remember in high school they had two characters singing this song and sang the line as “wrapped up like a goose in the middle of the night”. I thought that was the real lyric until the late 90’s when I decided to look up the lyrics on the web. Wow, not even close! LOL
Manfred Mann's version of Blinded by the Light is so much better than Springsteen's. I have to admit that I misheard the lyric in question. It was years before I discovered the answer for what that lyric actually was, that it wasn't about a feminine product. It made much more sense, but it didn't make me love the song any more than I already did. While Springsteen wrote the great lyrics, Manfred Mann's arrangement kicked it up a few notches. Great song!
By the way, I never heard Springsteen's version of that song, i Heard of a lot of his songs, but not that one (Even Chris Thompson stated in an interview with Rock History Music that he never heard the Boss's version, only heard Manfred Mann playing it to him on the piano)
One of my favorite misheard lyrics is Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze:"Excuse me while i kiss this guy" Or, Led Zeppelin Black Dog:"Beetlhead woman ain't got no soul"
My local record store ran out of Grand Illusion so I bought STYX EQUNOIX! A week later, I bought Grand Illusion and ten other albums for a penny from K-tel records!
The "Deuce Coup" referred to the the common car used in the 1950s for building hot rods - the 1932 Ford Coup. There were plenty of them around and were cheap to buy used in the 1950s and were rugged enough to put in a suped-up power train rather easily.
Bruce Springsteen is one of the coolest and talented 1980's singers. The story of Bruce going home and taking out a rhyming dictionary makes me think in a alternative world he could have wrote some great rap songs. Cool video. ^_^
🤨 How could "Born to Run" not be number 1? One of the greatest songs and one of the greatest Live songs I ever listened to. It's an anthem in live concerts. Professor sorry I am off the rail here but it needed to be said.
Here's a controversial take, I prefer Manfred Mann's Earth Band version. When I was growing up in the 1980s I had no idea Springsteen wrote it. When he would sing 'She got down but she never got tired/She's gonna make it through the night' then that mournful guitar solo comes in. I thought this song was about someone addicted to drugs and almost died. I finally heard Springsteen's version in the late 1980s, and the story behind it. I was very disappointed to find out the song was meaningless and meant to be a throwaway to keep the record company happy. I was really disappointed.
In hot rod parlance, a deuce is a 1932 Ford. #2=Deuce. Arguably, the most modified/hotrodded car in automobile history. Go to a car show and you’re likely to see one.
Poll: What was the first album or song you bought with your own money?
Styx "Paradise Theatre"
Poco- Legend
Kiss Alive 2 - Kiss
@@christineml1476terrific album
I can't remember the album (I think it might have been a K-Tel), but the first singles I bought were New Kid in Town--Eagles, and The Things We Do for Love--10CC.
I didn't even need to watch the opening and I already knew what the song was.
Me too 😂
...but of course, it's the 5th posting!...ha-HAAA!! ...jus'kiddin' Prof.! ; )
So did I! I always thought it said "like a douche", also!!
Ha ha! YES!
SAME!!
By the way if anyone DOES need to use one of those hygiene products, there's a bathroom on the right.
🤣
That's probably beyond many folks' lyrics recall. John Fogerty iis still alive and well.
Unfortunately the door is being blocked by that guy being held close by Tony Danza.
Don't forget that Elton John song: Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza!
...yeeesh, don't remind me I'm still trying to forget the last Seasons of "Who's The Boss"! ...ha-HAAA!
@@RBS_ lol nice
And, "She's got electric boobs."
...not too far off from the troof
Who heard that?
I knew Bruce wrote the song "Pink Cadillac," which was covered by Natalie Cole; but I didn't know he wrote "Fire" for the Pointer Sisters. I also loved "Hungry Heart." Back in the day, Bruce was among the talented and prolific singer/songwriters.
You learn something new every day. Thanks Professor!
THanks Helen!
Springsteen also wrote "Because The Night" which was another giveaway to Patti Smith in 1978, later covered by 10,000 Maniacs in 1993.
@@BigBri550 I absolutely love the 10,000 Maniacs version.
My favorite cover of Fire is the one done by Robin Williams.
@@DDKaraokeOutlaw Yes! I also like Patti Smith's. Still don't know if I ever heard Springsteen do it.
I love misheard lyrics like this one as well as CCR Bathroom on the Right Jimi Hendricks Purple Haze "kiss this guy"😅
Because I thought it was “excuse me while I kiss this guy“ I couldn’t stand Hendrix then after I found out what he was really saying, I love this music. I am 59. 🤘♾️☮️♾️🇺🇸
@@daveporter9222 You're 59 and homophobic.
I loved blinded by the light by manfred Mann when I was little it was my favorite song I couldn't get enough of it. My parents said I wanted to hear it over and over again in the late 1970's. Now that I'm older I like both versions of the song. Great show today. Runner was great in the 1984 movie The Philadelphia experiment.
Thanks Wayne!
I am listening to this song right now as I wait for your video. That's got to be at least 20x ProRo!!
Rad!
For decades i thought bon jovi's "you give love a bad name" was you give love a band-aid !
Now that's Weird Al Style!
😂
How?! That lyric is the name of the song
Same with me thinking Nine Inch Nails, "Terrible Lie", was "Dead Or Alive."
HAHA that’s so funny!
Great video. I was one of those first 25,000 that bought Bruce's first album. So when Manfred Mann did Blinded By The Light, I knew the lyrics. I was constantly trying to tell people they were hearing it wrong. I finally gave up. It is a great song and one of my all time favorites in both versions.
Noooo no! Douche is NOT why that was a Hit. It's because it's a musical masterpiece!! The slow down with that guitar solo before the lyrics: But Mama,,,, that's where the fun is!!! Beautifully done! Thanks Adam! Peace 🕊️☮️♾️😎🎸🤟🏼
I love it too!
Amen, Allen!
Agreed. The douche thing is news to me. No one I knew thought that. Maybe that was just an American thing.
@j.graham8068 Yes! Probably after a couple bong hits! ☯️☮️
Nah… it’s was douche.
Ha, ha. Yeah I remember. Car guys knew, but you are correct about the argument's caused over "Blinded by the Light" and even censored by some a.m. radio stations in 1970s.
Over the Shoulder Boulder Holders!😅
Around the butt nut hut 😅😅
Ha!
Double Barrelled Slingshot
Those shoulders are older.
Professor - The first time I heard this song was New Years Eve 1976 by Manfred Mann. I was 8 years old at the time and our older neighbor girl who I think was 12 or 13 at the time was babysitting a bunch of the neighborhood kids as all the adults went to a New Years Eve party. As it was time for her to get all of us kids to settle down and be quiet, she said she'd play some records for us. This was one of the songs, which we kept asking to listen to about 10 times over. Not sure why at that time we all liked that song, maybe the music or rhythm or whatever, but it's definitely been a lasting memory in my mind. Love that song. I wonder what our old neighbor girl Kim is doing now......?
Thanks again for bringing back such cherished memories.
Haha! That's hilarious. 😂 I never knew Springsteen wrote this song. Thanks for a funny episode, Adam. Great way to start the day.
Me either
The 2nd best “commercial” for feminine hygiene ever. Second only to Martin Lawerence’s
SNL monologue in 1994!
Don't forget John Madden's commercial for Vagisil on MadTV (with John being played by Frank Caliendo).
It's funny, as a kid my mother would shut the song off
when it came on the radio, thinking it was disgusting
Ha ha! Love it.
😂 Hilarious!
Yeah thats a good topic. Music parents hated, music parent groups hated, music on the Noriega playlist....
@@JimmeShelter Noriega...now that's a "blast" from the past! Quite literally! 📢🎛🎸
This is one of those great songs with so many lyrics, sung fast, that it became a major quest to learn all the words and sing along.
FOr sure! It was very dylanesque!
The words do get garbled sometimes but they are pearly wurly.
I knew which song it was before I watched it. I would play the radio at work when the song was released and an older co-worker would argue with me about what that word was. I clearly heard "deuce" but I couldn't convince her of that. She would grumble about it every time it came on. Great song, I didn't realize Bruce Springsteen wrote it.
Hey this is one of the most joy inducing songs ever! Blinded by
It so true!
@@ProfessorofRock I'm going to call you between 2 and 4 your time today
We were so confused back then.... thanks for another great show, Professor.
Very welcome!
As a sound engineer, let me state that the "skewed azimuth" explanation is quite simply...
True, in my opinion. Both the "s" sound and the "sh" sound are just white noise, the only difference being the frequency band. And a skewed azimuth CAN turn an "s" into an "sh."
That said, it's good to hear Bruce had a sense of humor about the whole thing; In other words, he wasn't a...
So it’s not a douche😂
Maybe!
You know how many people thought that was in the lyric, my sisters who were older than me. 🤣😂✌🏼🎄
The original artist is.
I always thought it was 'like a deuce'.
Yes. It is not, "wrapped up like a douche," like my friend once told me.
Such a great story and list of interesting facts in this video. This is why he is called the Professor!
Blinded by the Light was a nothing less than a 7 minute long storybook of wild and mysterious images spread out over an utterly fantastic magical musical flying carpet that took my imagination to places that I could've never have visited on my own.
See! I can do the fanatical phrase flipping too, prof! LOL.
Loved this song as a kid... had no idea what a douche was but my brother did and he'd emphasis that word every time... boy... that got old. Thanks for the memories!
Gotta give Manfred Mann credit on this one they took a song with fantastic lyrics and made it even better, kinda their thing. I can't tell you how many times I have heard the guys in my youth shout that particular lyric every time this song came on. Bruce like Dylan could write some of the best lyrics of our time and the proof is how many songs were reinterpreted musicality that became staples for many artists. Great episode professor, more Bruce!!
Thanks My Name! Will do!
I wonder if anyone got in trouble for singing that “douche” lyric out loud in class…
Springsteen's original sounds like a circus tune.
Mann took it to an entirely different, nay, respectable level
Thanks for your comment.
@ProfessorofRock
Fun story though.
I've always wondered how Springsteen kept the label paying to make his albums without big hits before they finally said : ok you need a big hit or else we're cutting you off
27 Oct 1975. Bruce Sprinsteen made the cover of Newsweek and Time on the same day. They predicted a glowing career for him. He really milked a distinctive sound. Like Phil Collins.
I heard an interview with one of them -- I think it was Chris Thompson -- a while back and he seemed to have only a vague idea of what "revved up like a deuce" was supposed to mean, suggesting at one point that it was something like a "doozy". Well, "doozy", a slang term for Duesenberg, would have fit almost as well into the song, since a Duesenberg could also be made into a (rather expensive) hot rod. The confusion just added to the mystique of the record.
Except the original Springsteen lyric was "cut loose like a deuce". So not sure about the confusion except that they changed it to "revved up".
One of my favorite songs ever. I never get tired of hearing Blinded by the light by MMEB ⭐
Rad!
LOL!!!
Maybe the greatest botched lyrics ever!
Love this song. Forgot it was originally about a car.
And finally for the first time this week, I am in time for class. Yay me.
Thanks for the laugh today, Professor. Awesome shirt today!
Thanks Roger!
I'm a gearhead plus my next door neighbor's Dad had a 32' Ford. I knew the beach boys Little Deuce Coupe. I never thought the blinded by the light lyrics revved up like a douch. My first album was on 8 track Blood Rock
Cool!
Haha, I used to say I wanted to go on SHARK TANK with my idea to market a car bidet...and I was gonna call it "Little Coupe Douche"™
Brucie could mess up "Happy Birthday" if he had the chance.........
I think you need to do more misunderstood lyrics! This was great!
Thanks!
I'm so relieved that I wasn't the only one, I thought I just had a messed up mind.
Me & my sister were singing it wrong & my mom was horrified 😂. She was like what did you just say? Then she started cracking up
Ha ha! Love it.
My favorite use of Blinded by the Light in pop culture is on a short-lived Canadian sketch comedy show called The Vacant Lot. These guys are playing poker and arguing about what the lyrics say and they're all getting it wrong. One sings about a french bath towel, another thinks it's about a loufa sponge and another says some kind of nonsense. and the fourth guy snaps and corrects them going "It is BLINDED BY THE LIGHT, RACKED UP LIKE A DEUCE, ANOTHER ROLLER IN THE NIGHT". Of course he screws up the lyrics too and what I love is that it's a joke that only audiophiles like us will get.
I would love to see The Professor do a show about songs containing "mondegreens" in music- misunderstood lyrics which have become well known and often comic twists on the original. The two biggest ones that come to mind are "Scuse me while I kiss this guy" from "Purple Haze" and "There's a bathroom on the right" from "Bad Moon Rising".
Yes I'm aware and have covered both!
Great story.
I thin my biggest botch was thinking ELO’s Evil Woman was “Medieval Woman”. My wife thought Boston’s Piece of Mind was “Piece of Pie”.
The first time I can remember hearing this song when it came out was in elementary advance band dance. I was in 4th grade, but advance band was for 5th and 6th graders. The advantage of being in combination classes. I was the youngest kid at the dance. The older kids were laughing at the lyrics. Since I was naive, and still am at times, they were teasing me. It's what kids do and they were not being mean. I was clueless for the simple fact I didn't know what the word they were hearing meant. It happens when you grow up on a farm as a poor country boy. They asked me what I heard and I said I hear deuce. I still didn't know what that meant. They said that was the correct word, because I think the lyrics was on the back of the album sleeve. I've always liked the song. Great memories!!!
One of the greatest songs of the 70s. I learnt it word for word and still belt it out periodically in the car at the top of my voice. With incorrect lyrics of course :)
Being a kid in the 70's listening to THAT lyric;Thinking " um...is that from the Summer's Eve commercial on TV??"🤔 No joke.
But😂😂😂😂
Hmm... "Let loose like a deuce" can also have it's own dirty connotation, such as dropping a deuce. 😀
In college, I had a guy try to diss the Boss by telling me that he only got famous by recording Manfred Mann’s songs. Talk about a douche…
😂😂😂
Manfred Mann also covered "For You" and I don't know why it's slept on - even completely bypassed here! - because the piano riff + guitar intro is killer! It - the Manfred Mann version - was even turned into a dance remix, just playing the intro, chorus and first verse on repeat (sadly).
They also covered Spirits in the Night by Springsteen. Personally, I think Bruce should just write songs for Manfred Mann.
Springsteen version of blinded by the light sucks, but Manfred Manns really made it the song it should have been.
Mann's version is better for sure.
Best remake of an original song along with UB40's "Red Red Wine", in my opinion.
Ah that's what I always thought he sang about too 🤭 Where else but here can I get the real explanation! Thanks for the facts Professor! Love Blinded by the Light! 👍
Thanks Cheryl!
I remember when it was on the radio! I didn't realize at that time what the misunderstood word was. 😂
Adam 2028!!!! This channel is awesome!!! The Professor Rocks!!!!
Thanks!
I remember watching 👀 this performance on th Midnight Special!
Cool!
Runner! Great song. One I’d forgotten about. Thanks for reminding me of it Adam. This was an awesome video. Thank you!!
I believe it also gave rise to the use of douche as a derogatory term. Suddenly, every A-hole was being called a D-bag. 😆
As much as I love Blinded by the Light and Spirit in the Night from Greetings…my personal favorite is For You. Love the imagery and raw emotion.
For sure! Thanks Fred!
I love the Boss. Had the joy of seeing him in concert five times. My favorite was fifth row in a smaller venue for The Ghost of Tom Joad tour, his solo acoustic tour. I was awestruck. I still tear up every time I watch The E Street Band do "If I Should Fall Behind", knowing that Clarence and Danny are gone.
Thank you Adam!
The Beatles did this too! Sold songs to other bands,Smart,intelligence the $ is in the Publishing! Also everyone is pushing your product and name!
So funny! Glad it wasn't just me. My husband translated it correctly one day when we were driving in the car. Love that song!
Love it!!
Blinded by The Light is a favorite! Great video, I love the history.
A Deuce refers to only one car, the 1932 (or '32) Ford. It can be any body style. It was and still is the most popular car in hot rodding, the Deuce name refers to the 2 in '32, a deuce is the #2 card in a deck of cards.
Thanks for the insight!
It originated there, but later some started using it to describe a car with twin carbs. And some call the Buick Electra 225 the Deuce and a quarter.
@@johnjones928 That reminds me of the way my great aunts used to call the refrigerator "the Frigidaire" .
I always wondered what that lyric actually said. Thanks for clearing it up!
Just found your channel yesterday and subscribed after 2 videos! Very cool channel! Thank you for all you do here! Much love from SW Louisiana 💚!
THANKS!
@ProfessorofRock You're very welcome!💚
Over four years ago I found his channel and been here. Great bunch of classmates here so WELCOME!
@@AnnaTrail-xp8pr Thank you!
@@savagefurya1312 hopefully we will talk again in the comments.
Bruce also wrote This Little Girl & Out Of Work for Gary U.S. Bonds
Love this song... BOTH versions! Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. is actually one of my favorite Springsteen albums!
Very cool!
How I miss The Big Man!
Same!
I always knew I was singing the wrong lyrics, but didn't care. Great song! lol
Love it!
To be honest, I always heard it as "deuce". 😂
LOVE THIS SONG!!! I haven’t even gotten to the part of the video when Adam says the song he’s talking about, but I knew IMMEDIATELY from the thumbnail!!! ❤😊
Yep, I always thought the lyrics were “wrapped up like a douche” 😂😂😂 Couldn’t understand what the heck it meant! Hilarious!!!!
BLINDED BY THE LIES by APOLOGETIX a great parody
Loved cranking this one up as a kid. I was on side douche. Lol
PoR, you mentioned the Manfred Mann hit song "Runner." This particular song was written by Canada's singer/songwriter Ian Thomas. He also wrote the hit song "Hold On" by Santana.
Dave Thomas of SCTV fame is also Ian's brother. Many people probably don't know that Ian Thomas had numerous AOR Canadian radio hit songs since '73. Here is a big catalog list of
his best songs of which many of your commenters may find a fave song: 1) Painted Ladies '73 2) Coming Home 3) Come The Sun 4) Long Long Way 5) Time Is The Keeper
6) Liars 7) Pilot 8) Right Before Your Eyes 9) Back To Square One (Great song!) 10) Levity (Great song!)
NOTE: Ian also went on to form the band The Boomers. Their best songs are: 1) One Little Word (Great song!) 2) Wishes. Enjoy people!
I knew what song it was by your title!! My nephew swears he's saying the feminine hygiene product and not douce!! I don't blame Springsteen for being mad over it!! Have an awesome day Professor Of Rock!! Cindy Snow
Exactly!!
I love their song Runner! It is definitely underplayed.
❤❤❤ great show
Love the T-shirt!! Favorite concert of mine!🤘🔥
Thanks Brent!
I want one!
BRUUUCE. The Boss has a good sense of humor about things, anyone see him on Curb last year?
YES!
Oh I forgot he was on that show!
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 It was epic. Didn't perform with E St but he was very funny.
Strangely, this was a song we danced to in 7th grade. I'm not quite sure how...
I absolutely LOVE The Runner. Was the year I graduated, and that song was the unofficial ‘84 Olympics song.
Cool!
The Runner is a cover of an Ian Thomas (Painted Ladies) song.
We used to giggle about this as children 🤭
I remember it well!
Love Manfred Mann’s work - Chance is one of my favorite albums
"Well, since you put me down there's been owls pukin' in my bed!"
Ew!
HA!
Ypu can blame Mike Love for that lyric lol. He wrote it.
My stepsister used to watch Days of Our Lives and I remember in high school they had two characters singing this song and sang the line as “wrapped up like a goose in the middle of the night”. I thought that was the real lyric until the late 90’s when I decided to look up the lyrics on the web. Wow, not even close! LOL
Manfred Mann's version of Blinded by the Light is so much better than Springsteen's. I have to admit that I misheard the lyric in question. It was years before I discovered the answer for what that lyric actually was, that it wasn't about a feminine product. It made much more sense, but it didn't make me love the song any more than I already did. While Springsteen wrote the great lyrics, Manfred Mann's arrangement kicked it up a few notches. Great song!
By the way, I never heard Springsteen's version of that song, i Heard of a lot of his songs, but not that one (Even Chris Thompson stated in an interview with Rock History Music that he never heard the Boss's version, only heard Manfred Mann playing it to him on the piano)
THanks Ted! Good insight.
One of my favorite misheard lyrics is Jimi Hendrix Purple Haze:"Excuse me while i kiss this guy"
Or, Led Zeppelin Black Dog:"Beetlhead woman ain't got no soul"
We Are Family, by Sister Sledge: 'Just let me staple the vicar.' 😄
Yes!
My local record store ran out of Grand Illusion so I bought STYX EQUNOIX!
A week later, I bought Grand Illusion and ten other albums for a penny from K-tel records!
Yeah ... my friends and I STILL make fun of this song to this day. LOL - it is still a great song though.
"Davey's On The Road Again" is the best Manfred Mann's Earthband Song for my money! 😁
Manfred Mann’s Earth Band did an absolutely amazing job covering “For You”!!! ❤️
It’s, miles and away, far better than the Greg Kihn version.
I think that if Elvis would have sung I'm on fire 🔥 It would've been Elvis Presley last # 1 song!
I think you're right! How are ya!
@ProfessorofRock I have been way better. And far worse. Thursday night we are doing the sneak premiere of Kraven The Hunter!
The "Deuce Coup" referred to the the common car used in the 1950s for building hot rods - the 1932 Ford Coup. There were plenty of them around and were cheap to buy used in the 1950s and were rugged enough to put in a suped-up power train rather easily.
It bled over. We used to sing The Beach Boys as Little Douche Coup.
@williambarry8015 LOL.
"She's my little douche coup. You don't know what I got."
It always has been and always will be (to me), "...wrapped up like a douche..."
Bruce Springsteen is one of the coolest and talented 1980's singers. The story of Bruce going home and taking out a rhyming dictionary makes me think in a alternative world he could have wrote some great rap songs. Cool video. ^_^
Thanks! I agree. Love the Boss.
🤨 How could "Born to Run" not be number 1? One of the greatest songs and one of the greatest Live songs I ever listened to. It's an anthem in live concerts. Professor sorry I am off the rail here but it needed to be said.
IT's my favorite song of all time!
@@ProfessorofRock 🤗 Bless You ❤❤❤
The Frankie Goes To Hollywood version is much better.
@@eightiesmusic1984 Lord No......Nobody beats the "Boss'
@@ProfessorofRockI thought it was Level 42's 'There's Something About You' I'm sure you said that in the video 😮
Ripped off like a douche another runner in the night…. One of the best mondegreens ever :)
'Scuse me while I kiss this guy.
I'm amazed YT lets you say douche without de-monetizing and suppressing the vid....but yet another great episode.
I thought it was bleeped? Did my editor not bleep it?
I am pausing at the sentence that Bruce Springsteen has never had a #1. Wow, I thought for sure that Born in the USA made it.
It hit #9
Here's a controversial take, I prefer Manfred Mann's Earth Band version. When I was growing up in the 1980s I had no idea Springsteen wrote it. When he would sing 'She got down but she never got tired/She's gonna make it through the night' then that mournful guitar solo comes in. I thought this song was about someone addicted to drugs and almost died.
I finally heard Springsteen's version in the late 1980s, and the story behind it. I was very disappointed to find out the song was meaningless and meant to be a throwaway to keep the record company happy. I was really disappointed.
In hot rod parlance, a deuce is a 1932 Ford. #2=Deuce. Arguably, the most modified/hotrodded car in automobile history. Go to a car show and you’re likely to see one.
The album that "Blinded..." was on, "The Roaring Silence", is a true rock classic!