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re: You Took a Whole Lot of Words Right Out of My Mouth (NJC)

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steven_stuart 10:49 pm UTC 04/12/13
In reply to: You Took a Whole Lot of Words Right Out of My Mouth (NJC) - EvilNickname 10:22 pm UTC 04/12/13
Excellent detective work.

I know that Bat Out Of Hell was a famous phrase long before Jim wrote BOOH but I am hoping that nobody wrote a song using the phrase before Jim did.

> So, I was browsing the internet, and I found out that
> apparently there are a few songs called "You Took the
> Words Right Out of My Mouth" that predate Jim's.
>
> The first is written by Harry Pease (lyrics) and Ed G.
> Nelson (music), copyrighted January 1933, and all I could
> find about that version is its entry in the > href="http://books.google.nl/books?id=BhJhAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA181&dq=harry+pease+ed+nelson+%22took+the+words%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=-mNoUaG6CIyb1AWAp4HIDQ&ved=0CC4Q6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=harry%20pease%20ed%20nelson%20%22took%20the%20words%22&f=false">Catalog
> of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions and
> sheetmusic on eBay.
>
> The second is from the movie > href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0026373/">Folies Bergère
> de Paris, and is performed by Maurice Chevalier. > href="http://archive.org/details/MauriceChevalierCollection1929-1934">I
> even found a recording.
>
> And then it went wrong. After finding out about those two,
> instead of doing something useful, like working on my
> website, I started looking for more. And it quickly became
> confusing—there's also a song called "You Took the Words
> Right Out of My Heart" which got covered a lot, and people
> apparently often write 'mouth' when they mean 'heart'—and
> a total timesuck. Anyway, here's some info about a few
> others I found:
>
> Mark
> Radice (who has an > href="http://markradice.150m.com/Disco/disco.html">impressive
> discography) did one in '68. It's instrumental, and
> can be > href="http://www.filefactory.com/file/2j8xjsphzu9b/LJB074.zip">downloaded
> from here.
>
> First
> Choice did some funky stuff on their 1974 album > href="http://www.discogs.com/First-Choice-The-Player/release/630350">The
> Player.
>
> Also in '74, but probably less funky, considering her
> other songs that can be found: > href="http://www.discogs.com/Harriet-Schock-Hollywood-Town/release/1654732">Harriet
> Schock
>
> And finally, Blue Sky Riders added parentheses: > href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6PXH-gwSVk">You
> Took the Words (Right Outa my Mouth). That one was
> only released this year, though.
>
> (The reason I post this, is because a) I can, and b) hey!
> Jim wrote songs with titles that somebody else used
> already! omg!)


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