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I know it’s hard believin’ the words you’ve heard before

Monday 05 January 2004

OH MY GOD. OH MY DEAR LORD. WHO IS IT BUTCHERING DAVID GATES’ “GOODBYE GIRL” AS RECORDED FOR THE TELEVISED CINEMATIC BUTCHERING OF “GOODBYE GIRL” FOR THE 2K4 ON TNT. My hus­band wagers it is Hootie and the Blowfish. I did not want to believe it was Hootie and the Blowfish but you know what, he is cor­rect. It is HOOTIE AND THE BLOWFISH. Butchering DAVID GATES. I AM OUTRAGED.

08:43:01 PM | Category: musics

5 comments to I know it’s hard believin’ the words you’ve heard before

  • jane
    Tuesday 06 January 2004 at 12:21 AM

    Oh my God. I have to tell you a long story about this very thing and Atlantic City, but that I have to go to bed. I thought if I put this, I would remem­ber to tell you later. OK.

  • Kim
    Tuesday 06 January 2004 at 8:21 AM

    Oh and P.S. Jane, I’m going to steal your com­ments usage con­cept and use them to explain where the post titles came from. This one, sur­pris­ingly, is David Gates’ “Goodbye Girl.”

  • jane
    Tuesday 06 January 2004 at 9:03 AM

    Good idea! OK, so I was in AC in a hotel and there was noth­ing on TV but 9000 episodes of “Law & Order”, so I was watch­ing TNT, which I rarely do at home. Yes. So they kept hav­ing these lit­tle behind the scenes-​type com­mer­cials for some TV movie star­ring the wife off of “Everybody Loves Raymond” and I am not really pay­ing atten­tion until she says, “This is the most roman­tic script ever writ­ten” and I was like, “Oh my God. This bitch is insane,” think­ing it was just some every­day crappy movie-​of-​the-​week non­sense. THEN they showed the VIDEO of Hootie, etc. singing “Goodbye Girl” and I put the whole hor­ri­ble mess together. Man, I love that song. I got sad.

  • Kim
    Wednesday 07 January 2004 at 12:57 AM

    Oh man, I saw those com­mer­cials too when I was in MN but I don’t recall hear­ing the das­tardly GG cover. I swear I was think­ing it might have been Staind or some­thing when I heard it, it was that awful. Anyway, when I was in MN, the first time one of those came on my mom was like “No … oh no … oh no they didn’t!!!” The more they revealed and the more she real­ized that it was a remake of “Goodbye Girl,” she got so wound up, it was hilar­i­ous. “HOW DARE THEY!” It was fan­tas­tic. Also, who wants to watch the Everybody Loves Raymond woman in any­thing? Eew, we get enough of her in the Albertson’s super­mar­ket com­mer­cials right. P.S., they ended up show­ing the orig­i­nal on TCM while I was there and Mom and I watched it and all was well until the end when she was like, “Now WHY would any­one DARE mess with THAT?! Oh GOSH!!!” and she got wound up all over again, it was fantastic.