Get Out of My Clown
The first comment that my good friend Silverback left on this blog was on June 20, 2006, and it was about Desmond Dekker and his iconic song Me Ears are Alight.
Okay, if you're too young to remember, it's really called The Israelites. You can read my original piece, here, and Silverback's comment too. Although he only lives a couple of miles from me when he's in Leeds, we'd never met of course - and we didn't meet until well over a year after he left this comment - - and on Friday we're going to Florida to see him, and to meet his friends, and to see something of Florida - -- - - amazing, the internet, eh?
Anyway, it's a great song, and in the far-off days of 2006 when the internet was powered by steam, I didn't know how to post videos. So let's have a listen, shall we? Great outfit, by the way, Mr Dekker!
Of course, with this song I did know the real title - it just amuses me to hear it as Me Ears Are Alight.
However, I heard something on the radio yesterday that was a bit of a revelation.
They played an early Rolling Stones song - - from 1965, the follow-up to (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
(and don't you just hate it when they put half of a song title in brackets like that? Terrible thing, the over-use of brackets).
Anyway, I'd always thought it was called Get Out of My Clown. I didn't know what this title meant, but then I don't know what a lot of song titles mean.
And yesterday, the man on the radio told me it's called Get Off Of My Cloud.
So I found a video to check and I still prefer my version. "Off of?" What kind of grammatical construction is that, Mick?
Anyway, here's a very young Mr Jagger singing Get Out of My Clown.
Another great song! Me ears are alight just listening to it.
Okay, if you're too young to remember, it's really called The Israelites. You can read my original piece, here, and Silverback's comment too. Although he only lives a couple of miles from me when he's in Leeds, we'd never met of course - and we didn't meet until well over a year after he left this comment - - and on Friday we're going to Florida to see him, and to meet his friends, and to see something of Florida - -- - - amazing, the internet, eh?
Anyway, it's a great song, and in the far-off days of 2006 when the internet was powered by steam, I didn't know how to post videos. So let's have a listen, shall we? Great outfit, by the way, Mr Dekker!
Of course, with this song I did know the real title - it just amuses me to hear it as Me Ears Are Alight.
However, I heard something on the radio yesterday that was a bit of a revelation.
They played an early Rolling Stones song - - from 1965, the follow-up to (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
(and don't you just hate it when they put half of a song title in brackets like that? Terrible thing, the over-use of brackets).
Anyway, I'd always thought it was called Get Out of My Clown. I didn't know what this title meant, but then I don't know what a lot of song titles mean.
And yesterday, the man on the radio told me it's called Get Off Of My Cloud.
So I found a video to check and I still prefer my version. "Off of?" What kind of grammatical construction is that, Mick?
Anyway, here's a very young Mr Jagger singing Get Out of My Clown.
Another great song! Me ears are alight just listening to it.
posted by Daphne at 9:41 am
1 Comments:
I think Mr Jagger's diction is quite clear and I have never thought of the chorus of this song as anything other than "Hey you get off of my cloud". I am now going to hear it as "get out of my clown" and it's all your fault!!
By the way, I like brackets but not in song titles. (I note your correct usage of punctuation with yours - full stop outside the brackets. I'm going for inside the brackets cos this is a complete sentence.)
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