Little Miss Can't Be Wrong-ing

This is a companion thread of sorts to Songs where a musician starts "ernie-ing"/summoning up the great musical god Ernie.

Little Miss Can't Be Wrong-ing refers to the first 5 notes of the main riff of the Spin Doctors song Little Miss Can't Be Wrong (0:01 through 0:02 in the video, althrough repeated throughout)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXWbMu4PtpE

Every once in a while, I'll be listening to some guitar solo and that motif will pop up. The Spin Doctors' guitarist, Eric Schenkman, wasn't the originator - I've heard examples going back to at least the 1970s - but it plays such a central role in their song, that whenever it pops up, it makes me think of them.

Unfortunately, I don't have any examples at the top of my mind, but I'm starting this thread to try to catalog them when they show up. Feel free to participate.

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It's "Up Around the Bend" basically isn't it?

sped up Beast of Burdening

I don't know about all five exactly, but the central flavor of the fourth and fifth (the A# -> B thing) is absolutely all over rockabilly guitar, common enough in blues, and could easily be found in swing. Third note is the extra step of preceding it with a 4th/C, which you'd probably find in plenty of those examples and is also sort of like a jazz enclosure. Then the first two are just establishing the G chord. No time to dig for examples but you could surely find loads of this in the 50s, whether from Louis Prima or Elvis/Scotty Moore or whoever.

I think that central flavor comes up a ton because it's a natural feeling hammer on when playing a root 6 major barre chord on guitar. It comes up in guitar soloing because it is common to add a major 3rd to the minor pentatonic scale ("Texas Flood", intro to "Izabella")

I spend a couple of minutes on this and the other thread and I'm still not sure what everyone is talking about. Like, Chuck Berry/Johnny B Good type double-stop leads?

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sped up Beast of Burdening

Or same-tempo Honky Tonk Women!

Is this kinda doing the same thing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cPtw_Cd3zTk

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qzoKcLav4pc

xpost that’s exactly the song this thread made me think of

dude georgia satellites are just playing t rex! lol what is this thread!?

also top comment right now on that spin doctors youtube link is

Who is here in 2025 because of the meme that said he wrote this about his stepmom?