Songs that 'bounce' like that (i.e, Here you come again)

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This is in repsonse to the classic or dud question for here you come again by dolly parton. Someone responded:

"Classic ... songs that 'bounce' like that (esp with the right chords) always are (cf I Get The Sweetest Feeling, Daydream Believer etc.)"


What are other songs that (in a non-new orleans hip hop way) bounce like "here you come again"?

ripbandle, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 20:50 (twenty years ago)

"Sesame Street" theme song

"Wanderlust" by R.E.M.

"Welcome Back, Kotter" theme song

Justin, Tuesday, 8 November 2005 21:41 (twenty years ago)

Some Petula Clark- "I Know A Place" "Color My World"

General Doinel (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 8 November 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

"Autumn Almanac"

Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 00:23 (twenty years ago)

Last time I listened to "Here You Come Again" I couldn't help but cue up "Wedding Bell Blues" in my head...does that fit?

s woods, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:17 (twenty years ago)

totally.

Morning Train is all I can think of right now.

D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 01:37 (twenty years ago)

I love songs that do this.

Monkees, "Daydream Believer"

Van Morrison, "Blue Money"

Rosenbergs, "Secret"

Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:19 (twenty years ago)

Sugar Sugar

Kim (Kim), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 04:28 (twenty years ago)

bee gees - spicks and specks

retrogurl, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 09:45 (twenty years ago)

Penny Lane, Your Mother Should Know, lots of Paul Williams/Roger Nichols stuff (Bitter Honey, about half of Someday Man), Mrs Bluebird by Eternity's Children..indeed about 90% of the soft-sunshine-pop genre is made up of stuff like this.

harvey.w (harvey.w), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 09:54 (twenty years ago)

Belle & Sebastian's "Summer Wasting"
Spiral Staircase: More Today Than Yesterday
Chicago: Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
And there's gotta be a perfect Donovan song for this one.

footlog, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 13:42 (twenty years ago)

Gobs of pre-rock Tin Pan Alley pop, naturally.

Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:13 (twenty years ago)

XTC, "In Another Life"

monkeybutler, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

"Tell Me Why" by the Beatles

Rick Massimo (Rick Massimo), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 15:30 (twenty years ago)

"Someday, Someway," Marshall Crenshaw.

phil d., Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

"One of Those Days" - Adrian Belew

D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 16:39 (twenty years ago)

That Olivia Tremor Control song, it's bouncing like that in my head right now, but I reget that the title has sauntered so slinkily out of my mind.
ID?

mox twelve (Mox twleve), Wednesday, 9 November 2005 18:59 (twenty years ago)

Randy Newman's "Short People."

Great fucking song.

Dark Horse, Wednesday, 9 November 2005 19:03 (twenty years ago)


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