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What... It's not 'Forget the Money'???

posted 12 years ago by djrosenblatt
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First time I saw this film was when it first came out... 48 years ago. Second time was tonight. Really threw me for a loop because this song has been in my head for all that half-century and yet, until tonight, I was always certain that the lyrics were, "Let's forget about the money, let's forget about the money...".

I guess I assumed that the singer was imploring the customers to live it up, throw caution to the wind, and open up their wallets. (Hey, I was just 9 at the time. Guess I figured she was the wife of the bar owner.)

Just wondering if I'm alone in this. Was anyone else under the same impression as me?

Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers! But if you could show us something in a nice possum...

[–] Hellothreebee 12 years ago

Allow me to start my reply with "first time I saw this film when it first came out... 48 years ago. Second time was tonight.

About "let's forget about the money"... I guess I had the advantage of my high school graduation gift - a trip to Italy - and knowing that domani meant tomorrow.

This doesn't answer your question whether you are alone in this - but I couldn't resist commenting, and I bet that you ARE NOT alone. It might amuse you, though, that I thought Neil Diamond's "Reverend BlueJeans" was actually Forever in BlueJeans, and I still haven't figured out what the lyrics are to the rhythmic song in the Mr. Peanut commercial.

[–] djrosenblatt 12 years ago

Actually, get this: Not only did I also think that it was "forever in bluejeans", I was never disabused of that notion until reading your message. I am dead serious!! (Besides, what the ^&*%#$ is a Reverend Bluejeans??)

Since we're on a roll here, how about the Rascals' song "Groovin'", with its lyric, "Life will be ecstasy, you and me endlessly"? As a 12 year old, that was my introduction to the concept of menage-a-trois: I was sure it was "Life will be ecstasy, you and me and Leslie".

Sorry though, can't help you out with the Mr. Peanut ad - can't recall it at all.

Badgers? We don't need no stinkin' badgers! But if you could show us something in a nice possum...

[–] Hellothreebee 12 years ago

OOOOOOOOOPS! What did I DO? You are right, of course, IT IS "Forever in Blue Jeans" and NOT "Reverend Blue Jeans." Somehow I transposed the two when I wrote to you (I noticed that posting time is Pacific, I am on the East Coast -so it was almost 1:00 a.m. Not my most alert thinking time.) :) Now, why couldn't a "hip" reverend be allowed to wear Blue Jeans, I ask you :)

Oh you precocious one! A menage a trois, huh? And poor Leslie never had a clue.

So now I am waiting for a Yellow Rolls Royce rerun, totally missed the last ten minutes. She gave him the Rolls, and he went off to war with it. There must have been something more...

It's not that I am obsessed with commercial jingles - it's just that I did not understand one single word Mr. Peanut and his crew are stomping to -