The song I quoted is by an Australian folk/pop artist named Stephen Cummings, who is not very well known at all here in the US, but has had some chart success down under. He has a web site where you can download a few tracks to listen to, although not the one in question, which is about ten years old.
http://lovetown.net/mp3/index.html Although he is not the guy who did the National Lampoon parody (I guess that would be found on disc from their syndicated radio show from early 70s), it's not hard to see a bit of JM influence in his stuff, especially I Felt Light. But, after all, he's working in a folk/pop/jazz idiom. I found the chords to his song You Put Me Through Hell and the whole thing is built around three chords: Em, Em6, and Em7. Pretty strange. Could be that this tune got used in a film soundtrack somewhere down the line. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > ><< Is this the song you mean? > >Hell (You've Put Me Through) > >Cummings/Goodge > >Why don't you tell me that you love me >Or show me your desire >Your lies are fuel to the fire that is burning down below >I will never know how you let our love go >Started something...can't you see >Sure have made a fool of me...and > >Hell...you've put me in >Hell...thrown my love away >Hell...when you put me under your spell...in hell >> > >The Muller wrote: > ><< It was a parody done by the National Lampoon Crowd, performed by Nate >Herman, recorded in the early 70's. I don't have the lyrics, but the track >is available on the NatLamp box set, > > Buy This Box or We'll Shoot This Dog: The Best of the National Lampoon > Radio Hour. >> > >And Deb said: > ><<As I recall, the song starts "I'm gonna tell everybody how you put me >through hell, and the better I tell it, the better it'll sell." And in one >line she threatens to tell that he still wets the bed. It's a cute little >parody of seventies Joni with this free-form melody and lots of words and >extreme vocalization. >> > >Back to me: > >I AM CONFUSED!!! (Some news flash, huh?) > >Did dsadowsk post the correct lyrics to this Joni parody, or are the actual >lyrics different? > >Then Azeem wrote: > ><< A modern Joni parody might be rather different to "You put me through >hell". I reckon it would be more along the lines of "I'm a misunderstood >genius and everyone else makes rubbish music." >> > >Moi, encore: > >Or maybe it would be the original parody with a full orchestra! > >Thanks to all who have tried to help, and thanks anyone who can clear this up, > > --Bob
