Fun Music Information -> Les Humphries Singers
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Stupid Band Names:
- My first impression on seeing this band name was that, to convey an aura of "classiness" or something like that they had affixed the French prefix "Les" (meaning "the" [plural]; sounds sort of like the English word "lay" as nearly as the French sound can be rendered into English phonetics) to their name. Then I thought how "Les" (sounding like "less") could be a given name or nickname derived therefrom. Then I realized the band might be named for someone (probably a member thereof) named Les Humphries. That makes the name ambiguous in meaning. So I looked up the band, finding that the second guess above is the correct one. Band member Les Humphries was from England. He started the band in Hamburg, Germany (in a country adjacent to France, no less), than moved back to England after the band disbanded. So the name leaves both its pronunciation and its meaning ambiguous. Submitted by: Liberty Anderson
New Song Names:
Original Song Name | New Song Name | Submitter Name |
| "Old Man Dozes" | "Old Man Moses" | Ron N. O'Connor |
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Songs for Duets, That Haven't Been Done Yet:
First Band/Song Name | Second Band/Song Name | New Song Name | Submittor |
| Old Man Moses Les Humphries Singers | Moses Ritooraliay The Clancy Brothers | Old Man Moses Ritooraliay | Alicia Sturdivant |
Misheard Lyrics:
"Old Man Moses"
Misheard Lyrics: Well I believe, oh yeah, what Old Man Moses said
Original Lyrics: Well I believe, oh yeah, that Old Man Mose is dead
| "Rolls Royce Body"
Misheard Lyrics: He's got a Rolls Royce body and a motor of one in his car
Original Lyrics: He's got a Rolls Royce body with the motor of a mini car
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"Old Man Moses"
Misheard Lyrics: He kicked the bucket from too much crime
Original Lyrics: He kicked the bucket, drank too much wine
| "Mexico"
Misheard Lyrics: Well we fired our guns, saw the British girls a comin'
Original Lyrics: Well we hired our funds, saw the pretty girls a comin'
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Misheard Lyrics Stories:
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"Mexico"
Misheard Lyrics: Pepsi-co, Pepsi-co
Original Lyrics: Mexico, Mexico
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Story about this misheard lyric by: Minna This song was one of my favorites when I was about 2-3 years old. My native language is Finnish and at that age I didn't speak any English (except numbers from 1 to 10, thanks and please) so lyrics never made any sense to me anyway. I was just singing along to my dad's records the way I thought they sounded like. But for some reason I still remember that I used to think that this song was about Pepsi-Cola. Pretty interesting, considering that I prefer Coca-Cola over Pepsi! |
