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"I've been up on this highway four or five days in a row
My words all run together and my feet are moving slow
I've gotta stop and eat while it's still light
There's a local angel sitting on my right
Do you believe in love at first sight?
Baby, you look good to me tonight

Well, I'm ordinarily very shy
And I'd be polite if I had the time but
Baby, you look good to me tonight
Tomorrow I'll be good and gone but
Please don't make me wait that long
Baby, you look good to me tonight

'I get off at eleven', she said and walked away
She poured a cup of coffee and she brought it on a tray
She said, 'It would be nice if you could stay,
You're the best idea I've had all day
Usually, I'd put up a fight, but
Baby, you look good to me tonight'

Well, I'm ordinarily very shy
But I grinned at her while I ate my pie; said
Baby, you look good to me tonight
I thought I must be in a dream
When she asked me if I wanted cream
Baby, you look good to me tonight

All in all you know
It's not a bad life on the road
If you got wheels to roll and lucky stars above
Your destiny's your own
You go as far as you can go
And if there's time to sleep
There's time to make love

I came, I saw, I conquered and I rode off in the sun
But you know the look she left me with keeps telling me she won
Her smile is the only thing I see
Whispering those words of prophecy
'I may come easy but I don't come free
You're never gonna see the last of me'

O, baby, you look good to me
I was born to love you, can't you see
Baby, you look good to me tonight
I'm ordinarily very shy
But I take the time to satisfy
Baby, you look good to me tonight
Baby, you look good to me tonight
Baby, you look good to me tonight."

-Starland Vocal Band, "Baby, You Look Good to Me Tonight"

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 18 May 2003 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Never heard it, so I tried mentally supplanting in my own tune as I read along with the words. It gradually devolved into Chris Parnell gangster rap.

― gazuga (gazuga), Sunday, 18 May 2003 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

When I stocked shelves in a supermarket, that song by these people, "Skyrockets" or whatever it's called, played on an endless loop some days. The manager came very close to a serious accident in the loading bay involving a skipload of bleach, but we didn't wanna risk jail.

Anyway, I can't imagine how the music to this goes. I like the words, sort of sexy (pie and cream, mm-hmmm), but then a hint of stalking weirdness at the end.

― David A. (Davant), Sunday, 18 May 2003 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

A perfect song for Momus to cover.

― maria b (maria b), Monday, 19 May 2003 01:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Circle Jerks doing part of Afternoon Delight on their Golden Shower of Hits medley was/is/will always be a classic.

― lucas (lucas), Monday, 19 May 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)

the tv show was pretty great

― James Blount (James Blount), Monday, 19 May 2003 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw the daughter of someone in that band on the game show Greed.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 19 May 2003 04:41 (twenty-two years ago)

they suck!

― Homer Simpson (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 19 May 2003 05:45 (twenty-two years ago)

two years pass...

"Afternoon Delight" is awesome.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 29 November 2005 21:51 (twenty years ago)

OTM

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Thursday, 1 December 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

I bought the album with "Afternoon Delight" on vinyl for some friends of mine.

It's hilarious played on 45.

― Nathaniel (Horbgorbling Slubberdegullion), Thursday, 1 December 2005 04:53 (twenty years ago)

"The Starland Vocal Band Show" (1977) [TV-Series]

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075586/

I have no idea what this show must have been like, but David Letterman is listed as one of the writers.

― Earl Nash (earlnash), Thursday, 1 December 2005 05:57 (twenty years ago)

i absolutely lurve Afternoon Delight. picked up the full length this song is on and haven't listened to any of the other songs

― jaxon (jaxon), Thursday, 1 December 2005 06:23 (twenty years ago)

remember the 70s??

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

intimately...songs like "afternoon delight" made it seem like EVERYBODY IN THE WORLD WAS PARTAKING OF TEH SEX except for me.

― m coleman (lovebug starski), Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:34 (twenty years ago)

Everyone on this thread is OTM

― Oh No, It's Dadaismus (and His Endless Stupid Jokes) (Dada), Thursday, 1 December 2005 10:41 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to listen to the LP again tomorrow.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

by which i mean today!

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:11 (twenty years ago)

i still really love "you're the best idea I've had all day" from the song i quoted upthread.

― like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 1 December 2005 11:13 (twenty years ago)

remember the 70s??

intimately...[etc]
Yes, and yes!

― will the cyrkle be unbroken? (Ken L), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:30 (twenty years ago)

Starland Cafe

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Thursday, 1 December 2005 14:35 (twenty years ago)

sixteen years pass...

Just heard a DJ refer to their big hit as a “double entendre ditty” with the final ‘e’ in the middle word pronounced long,

― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 15:02 (four years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SeiLHvWRr8

― celebrating ten years of constant posting (breastcrawl), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 16:26 (four years ago)

I originally thought "Afternoon Delight" was about a picnic.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 22 February 2022 20:02 (four years ago)

A Fourth of July picnic?

― Solaris Ocean Blue (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 00:30 (four years ago)

Well, one involving fireworks, at any rate.

― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 23 February 2022 00:38 (four years ago)

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