04/13 SPWAW Weekly Top Ten List

[Bernie]

I think I got my SPWAW sounds mixed with my MP3 files so...

Direct from the home office in Nashville, Tennesse...

Top Ten Songs Overheard On Unit Radios

#10 "Dirty Deeds (Done Dirt Cheap)" by AC/DC
(Heard on a GE Spec Ops squad radio)

#9 "Taking Care Of Business" by Bachmann Turner Overdrive
(Heard from the turret of an M4A1)

#8 "The Boys Are Back In Town" by Thin Lizzy
(Heard from an Italian infantry unit after the armistice)

#7 "Runaway" by Cher
(Heard from the same unit above before the armistice)

#6 "My Heros Have Always Been Cowboys" by Willie Nelson
(Heard being sung by a Soviet cossak unit)

#5 "Woman From Tokyo" by Deep Purple
(Heard coming from a cave on Iwo Jima)

#4 "Jump" by Van Halen
(Heard from an airborne squad as they left the plane)

#3 "Renegade" by Steppenwolf
(Heard from a Lithuanian squad on the Soviet front lines)

#2 "Every Breath You Take" by Sting
(Heard from a Ranger recon unit)

And the #1 song overheard on unit radios...

"Stuck In The Middle With You" by Stealers Wheel
(Heard from an Allied command post between an AA unit and a FO unit)

My apologies to anyone too young to know these songs (you can always look 'em up here Let's Sing It.Com ) or to any of our members outside the US who just "didn't get it" since they never heard the songs...

[Goblin]

Keep them coming Bernie!;)

Goblin

[Drex]

I'm sorry Bernie, I remember them all too well and thought I had forgot them. but like a bad penny they keep turning up(grin).

[Randy]

Bernie, you have the appropriate song coupled with the singing
group/unit quite well! You know your Hit Parade, and American Top 10 quite well, Dick Clark and Kassey Kassum would be proud!

[Belisarius]

Nice work Bernie!

I don't mean to try to steal the attention, but I felt the try some more: (all apologies for offensive or improper entries)


runner-up:"Have you ever seen the rain" by Creedence Clearwater Revival"
(Heard in a British FO vehicle, North Africa, August 1942)

runner-up: "Overkill" by Motörhead
(Played aboard the Enola Gay)

runner-up: "Wish you were here" by Pink Floyd
(Specially dedicated to the OKH by Paulus on German Army radio, February 1943)

runner-up: "Right behind you" by Our Lady Peace
(Popular among NKVD troops)

runner-up: "I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)" from the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack

runner-up: "Happiness is a warm Gun" by The Beatles

[Bernie]

Originally posted by Belisarius
Nice work Bernie!

I don't mean to try to steal the attention, but I felt the try some more: (all apologies for offensive or improper entries)


runner-up:"Have you ever seen the rain" by Creedence Clearwater Revival"
(Heard in a British FO vehicle, North Africa, August 1942)

runner-up: "Overkill" by Motörhead
(Played aboard the Enola Gay)

runner-up: "Wish you were here" by Pink Floyd
(Specially dedicated to the OKH by Paulus on German Army radio, February 1943)

runner-up: "Right behind you" by Our Lady Peace
(Popular among NKVD troops)

runner-up: "I Am Weary (Let Me Rest)" from the O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack

runner-up: "Happiness is a warm Gun" by The Beatles

All good ones Belisarius! Since you included some runner-up entries I guess I should let you know about some of the songs that didn't quite make the final cut:

"The Gambler" by Kenny Rogers (heard from Whittmans tank)

"Bat Out Of Hell" by Meatloaf (heard from a routed GE motorcycle squad)

"Hi Ho, Hi Ho" from Walt Disney's Snow White (heard being sung by an engineer company as they fired up their flamethrowers)

"Big Iron" by Marty Robbins (heard playing from an M4 Jumbo 76)

"Fairies Wear Boots" by Black Sabbath (heard plying from a squad guarding some SS prisoners)

"Five Feet High And Rising" by Johnny Cash (Last message received from a missing LCM)

"Take This Job And Shove It" by Johnny Paycheck (heard from a retreating infantry company when 4 Sturmtigers showed up)

"Blinded By The Light" by Manfred Mann (radioed back from a P38 that just wiped out a column of friendly troops)

"Sex As A Weapon" by Pat Benatar (heard coming from a resistance run bordello just outside Paris used for getting information from German officers)

"Karn Evel 9" by Emerson, Lake & Palmer (heard coming from behind Soviet lines as they repulsed yet another German attack)

"Fire And Rain" by James Taylor (Sung by the above mentioned Germans)

"I'm Walking" by Harry Connik Jr. (Sung by the crews of disabled vehicles on both sides)

"Double Vision" by Foreigner (Reply received from an AA battery that missed all 8 attacking planes)

There were a few more, but like I said, they didn't quite make the cut.

[Bernie]

Originally posted by Randy
Bernie, you have the appropriate song coupled with the singing
group/unit quite well! You know your Hit Parade, and American Top 10 quite well, Dick Clark and Kassey Kassum would be proud!

Aw shucks Randy....

At one time, many years ago, I took a night job at Madison Square Garden as part of the changeover crew after events (take out the basketball court, setup for hockey kind of thing) and got to meet both of those fine gentlemen at a Doo Wop concert. (Also got to attend every concert at MSG for 6 years straight...free) :)

[Bernie]

BTW, I'm open for suggestions for future Top Ten lists. I have a current list of about 12 topics, but can always use more.

[Les_the_Sarge_9_1]

While its unlikely cause the threads seem to be wandering in different directions.......


If you keep at this and the laughs are this good I am posting you are honourary Hall of Fame humour chairman.

[John David]

Bernie,

Another fine list. I love 'em!

Since a few of you have brought up Black Sabbath, I thought I would add 2 that seem to fit.

1) "Iron Man" sung by the tank crews Blitzkrieging their way through France in May 1940 about Heinz Geuderian!

And OF Course!!!

2) "War Pigs" sung by the entire population of all the countries in Europe who had had it up to here with the last two F#^ing world wars!

John