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To: "VOCALIST" <vocalist>
Subject: Re: misheard lyrics
Date sent: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 10:24:24 -0500
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Thanks to all for straightening me out on this one. I'm amazed to say that
I never heard this song before this year, though I've been listening to pop
all along. I'm always surprised when someone unknowingly refers to an older
pop song currently popularized by its cover artist, (like the miserable
cover of Harry Nilson's "Can't live if living is without you" by a female
pop singer whose name I have blocked from my conscious mind) as though that
version were the original.

Susan Schneider

-----Original Message-----
From: John Cheshire

> Here's a pop lyric I can't figure out: is it "Pulling muscles for
Michelle"
> or "Pulling mussles from a shell"? Don't know the group or the song.
It's
> been out maybe a year or so.

It's been out maybe a year or so? Well, maybe a cover of it has, but
the original was out more like 20 years ago! written by Glenn
Tilbrook and Chris Difford, from the 1980 album "Argybargy."- It is
"Pulling Mussels ( from the shell )" 'But behind the chalet my
holiday's complete, and I feel like William Tell, Maid Marion on her
tiptoed feet, pulling mussels from the shell' by Squeeze. Squeeze
had a number of hits including the classic "Up the Junction" - 'I
never thought it would happen, with me and the girl from Clapham,
out on the windy common, that night I aint forgotten....."