Blue Velvet
The other day my daughter and I were talking about things we said as babies – that included what I said, what she said, and what my son said.
It was all about the bloopers.
What I can remember from my daughter is that when she was a toddler she used to answer the phone (and her play phone) by saying, “Henno”. That, of course, was the cutest thing. It was so cute that everybody in the household started answering the phone, “Henno”.
What I remember from my son was his version of that Billy Joel song, “For the Longest Time”. And when they got to the chorus, “oh-oh-oh oh, for the longest time”, my son would be singing, “for the lumbeck time” – instead of longest; whatever the hell ‘lumbeck’ meant.
Going back to my own childhood, I could remember my mother correcting me. It was the Bobby Vinton song, Blue Velvet. I did not sing blue velvet, I sang, “blue Melvin”. I may have been around 7 at the time (since the song came out in 1963). But as far as I was concerned, blue velvet made no more sense to me than blue melvin, and so Blue Melvin it was.
It’s too damned bad that through the years, we never caught this stuff on video. But who knew?
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Oh, for those not inclined to listen to Blue Melvin, below is the official Talk Like a Pirate Day song from tomsmithonline.com (the writer of the song).
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