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I was wrong! He didn't perform Tutti Fruti at Atlanta '96. He performed Good Golly Miss Molly and Long Tall Sally.

Long Tall Sally! That's another song that has been covered many times.


Little Richard, Stevie Wonder and others turned the end of the closing ceremony of Atlanta '96 into a rock concert. I remember that Stevie's mic wasn't working at first and Little Richard had to tell the sound engineers to turn Stevie's mic up.

However this video is from the official Olympics Channel and so those parts have been cut out.

This is Little Richard performing Good Golly Miss Molly and Long Tall Sally at Atlanta '96.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_raQ6jxpBWY

Oh wow! That's true! He wrote this song! If I remember correctly, he performed this song at the closing ceremony of the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

So many people have covered this song that I didn't realise that he originally sang it. I've also just learnt the correct spelling of the title of the song.

This song has been covered by Elvis Presley, the Beatles and very many other singers.


Wop baba loo bap wop bam boo.


Little Richard - Tutti Fruti (1955).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F13JNjpNW6c

This song was done by many legends including Chuck Berry, Chubby Checker and Elvis Presley, but I've just discovered that it was originally written for this guy.


Bill Haley and his Comets - Rock Around The Clock (1954).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgdufzXvjqw

crackhaus:
But honestly, are these reasons/meanings just funny and weird?

River, Skye etc.. LOL

No, they are part of the normal naming system. It's just that some people have forgotten the meanings of the names or that the meanings of the words have changed.

In many cultures it is a tradition for members of a family to do a certain occupation. The knowledge is usually passed down from father to son and mother to daughter. In many such cultures the family name usually indicates that occupation.

This is one of the origibs of rock music. Many people have covered this song including Bill Haley, Chuck Berry and Elvis Presley. I think Elvis' version was the first that I heard. But the song was originally done by this man.

This video is of a live performance.

Big Joe Turner - Shake, Rattle N Roll (1954).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhELpSeeipg

Joseph1832 has given me an idea. The next set of songs are songs that I've always heard but (apart from the Elvis songs) up till this minute I don't know who originally sang them. They've been sung by very many singers, but I don't know who originally sang them.

descarado:
At least this one get meaning.
What of Blunt, Wood etc.

English names are very funny and weird.

Most of those names also have meanings. There are two things that you need to remember.


1) Words often have more than one meaning. It's possible that the name refers to a meaning that is different from the one that you are thinking of.


2) The English Language is derived from many sources including French (because of the Normans), German (because of the Saxons), Latin (because of the Roman occupation), Scandinavian languages (because of the Vikings), etc. Some of those names mean something different in the original language.



Woods in this case refers to a place with lots of trees, like a forest. The original meaning of the name Woods is someone that works in a forest (maybe as a lumberjack, hunter, etc). So most likely the baby's father works in the woods (that's why it's usually used as a surname).


Blunt is derived from French and it originally referred to people with blond hair.

joseph1832:
the real question remains who own the song.

Chuck Berry. He wrote Johnny B Goode. He also wrote Maybellene.

joseph1832:
Peter Tosh's version I use to think is the original version, until now.

Johnny B Goode it seem is like Paint It Black, many version and it's pretty hard to know the original.

This is so much fun! Chuck Berry and Bruce Springsteen perform Johnny B Goode live. Springsteen is like a kid who has just seen his idol.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6swgiM9vSEE

joseph1832:
Yikes. Use to think Peter Tosh is the dude who sang this song. Never knew the song is very old.

Yeah! I remember Peter Tosh's version. It was shown on the NTA. But the first version I heard was the rock version.

This is one of those songs from my childhood. I feel like I've known this song my entire life. It is one of the most popular songs that has ever been made. It has been covered uncountable times, it has been used in very many movies and adverts, it has become the nickname of very many people and everybody knows this song.


Chuck Berry - Johnny B Goode (1958).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T38v3-SSGcM

Yes! I've been trying to remember the name of the song at the intersection of Creed and Nickelback and I've now remembered it.


This was the sequence on that playlist.

Chad Kroeger - Hero

Nickelback - How You Remind Me

Creed - My Sacrifice

Creed - Arms Wide Open.


Creed - My Sacrifice (2001).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-fyNgHdmLI

Creed - With Arms Wide Open (1999).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99j0zLuNhi8

God I love this song!


"Ate a meal and threw it up on Sunday, I've
Got a lot of things to learn"

"There is one thing I can never give you,
My heart will never be your home.

So what's the matter with you?
Sing me something new.
Don't you know,
It's colder when the rain don't know
It only seems to come and go
Away"

"Stand by me,
Cos nobody knows
The way it's gonna be.

Stand by me,
Nobody knows
(God only knows)
The way it's gonna be"


Oasis - Stand By Me (1997).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9kdHXrJYF8

From the soundtrack of the movie "Shakespeare in Love"


Layla Kaylif - Shakespeare in Love (1999).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3DQDWXAhpw

From the soundtrack to the movie "Four Weddings and a Funeral" :


Wet Wet Wet - Love is All Around (1994).



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3gEkwhdXUE