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Fun Music Information -> Curtis Mayfield
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Literally Impossible Song Titles:
Song/Performer | Comment | Submitter Name |
| "Back To Living Again," | You only live once. | Candy Welty |
Use a Song Title to Answer a Different Song:
Song & Band Name | Song & Band Name |
| "Yesterday's Hero," Bay City Rollers | "Let's Not Forget," Curtis Mayfield |
| "Our Lips Are Sealed," The Go-Go's | "Can't Say Nothin'," Curtis Mayfield |
| "Let's Do The Freddie," Chubby Checker | "Freddie's Dead," Curtis Mayfield |
Remove a Letter From a Song Title:
"Let's Not Forge" originally "Let's Not Forget"
Josh
"Usherman" originally "Pusherman"
Blake
"Freddie's Dad" originally "Freddie's Dead"
Peter
Add a Letter to a Song Title:
"Can't Slay Nothin'" originally "Can't Say Nothin'"
Why Mayfield was happy not to encounter a dragon?
Peter
"Can't Spay Nothin'" originally "Can't Say Nothin'"
Why Mayfield was not a veterinarian?
Peter
"Can't Sway Nothin'" originally "Can't Say Nothin'"
Candy Welty
Change a Letter:
"Can't Lay Nothin'" originally "Can't Say Nothin'"
Candy Welty
"Can't Pay Nothin'" originally "Can't Say Nothin'"
Peter
"Back To Loving Again" originally "Back To Living Again"
Candy Welty
Song Parody Lyrics:
Original Song Name | Parody Song Name | Parody Author |
| "Freddie's Dead" | "Yeti's Wed" | Porfle Popnecker |
| "Super Fly" | "Super Glue" | Porfle Popnecker |
| "Superfly" | "Superfries" | Merry & Pippin |
| "I'm Your Pusherman" | "I'm The Cable Man" | Arcade Junkie |
| "Superfly" | "Montreal Expos" | Arcade Junkie |
| "Superfly" | "Afro Guy" | Fitu Petaia |
| "Superfly" | "Stupid Guy" | William Tong |
Songs for Duets, That Haven't Been Done Yet:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman Aretha Franklin | Superfly Curtis Mayfield | You Make Me Feel Like A Supernatural Fly Woman | Twila Paris Hilton |
| Should We Tell Him? The Everly Brothers | Freddie's Dead Curtis Mayfield | Should We Tell Him Freddie's Dead? | crazydon |
If Groups Combined, Their Names Might Be:
King Curtis Mayfield
King Curtis combined with Curtis Mayfield
Submitted By: Candy Welty
Misheard Lyrics:
"Superfly"
Misheard Lyrics: The man of the tower has hair of great power
(Later) This captain slug or This captain slump had a lot, was a dump Original Lyrics: The man of the hour has an air of great power
(Later) This cat of the slum had a mind, wasn't dumb | "Superfly"
Misheard Lyrics: The man of the tower
Has hair of great power (later) This captain slug or This captain slump Had a lot, was a dump Original Lyrics: The man of the hour
Has an air of great power (later) This cat of the slum Had a mind, wasn't dumb |
"Superfly"
Misheard Lyrics: Sugar fried
Original Lyrics: Superfly
| "Superfly"
Misheard Lyrics: Super size
Original Lyrics: Superfly
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| There are additional misheard lyrics available. | |
Misheard Lyrics Stories:
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"Diamond in the Back"
Misheard Lyrics: Sunroof top
Diggin' the scene with a Gangsterline Original Lyrics: Sunroof top
Diggin' the scene with a gangsta lean |
Story about this misheard lyric by: Chris I thought a gangsterline was some kind of female version of a gangster |
| There are additional misheard stories available. | |
Songs That Open With Their Titles:
"If I Were Only A Child Again"
Opening Lines: If I were only a child again. No one's ever been so good to me since then.
Comments: Submitted by: Candy Welty
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Song Title Space Change:
"Can't Say 'No Thin'" originally "Can't Say Nothin'"
Submitted by: Yvette Bristle
Songs That Are Banned:
"Pusherman"
While lip-synching this hit song for a performance on television's "Soul Train", Mayfield learns that the show's producers have edited the song to delete drug references.
Submitted by: Peter
Performers with Handicaps:
"Paraplegia"
An accident left him paralyzed from the neck down in 1980. He wrote and sang songs of his last album "New World Order". Many songs he recorded while lying on his back.
Submitted by: Soul
Movies Named After Song Titles:
"Billy Jack"
1971 film
Submitted by: Sutch
