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[atescetin]

I'm sorry if this subject has been posted before.

I was watching "Best of John Belushi" and there was a Beethoven skit. In the third and the last part of the skit, Belushi wears sunglasses and starts to immitate Ray Charles.

Do you know what song he is singing?

[JacobSteinAFM]

I know one of the songs was "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"- that's what the captions said.

[atescetin]

Hm, but thats not the one - I heard a sample over Towerrecords.com for "tie a yellow ribbon".

[Flashcomix]

JacobSteinAFM said:

I know one of the songs was "Tie a Yellow Ribbon"- that's what the captions said.

Ha ha, "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" :D
Sorry that I laugh JacobSteinAFM but that's not a Ray Charles song. It's a very crappy country-pop-tune by Tony Orlando & Dawn.
The song John sings is "What'd I Say" one of Ray Charles greatest hits. Very famous for the very sexual backingvocals in the original version. To hear a man and three girls hollow was a little bit to extrem for most of the white listeners back in the late 50's

By the way "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" was one of the songs on Bob's request list in the first movie. You can find that info in the BB Private book.

[Mike]

Yeah Flashcomix. It is "What I'd Say". What was the song in the first Bethoven part in the Best Of DVD? Before the Ray Charles impression.:D

[JacobSteinAFM]

Yes, I know that's not a Ray Charles song, but that was one of songs I remember he was playing in the sketch.

[atescetin]

Mike said:

Yeah Flashcomix. It is "What I'd Say". What was the song in the first Bethoven part in the Best Of DVD? Before the Ray Charles impression.:D

I think that is "My Girl".

By the way, thanks for the answer :D !

[ChAnOoD_bLuEs]

I remember that he played some classical songs, My Girl and What I´d Say...but I don´t remember the order of the songs... I´ll check it soon!

[TakkunEG]

I think "Tie a Yellow Ribbon" might be the name of the ragtime-like song he plays in the first part (instrumental), then "My Girl" in the second part and "What'd I Say" in the last part.

Not to be confused with the Tony Orlando "Tie a..." mentioned above.

[Odupianist]

I love "What'd I Say". I loved it even more when I found out the whole song was entirely improv the first time he played it. Watch the movie "Ray" and you'll see what I'm talking about.