Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza: And Other Misheard Lyrics [Paperback]

Charles Grosvenor (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 4, 2007

In this gifty and hilarious book, the founder of AmIRight.com offers hundreds of the most offbeat musical mondegreens from his popular website. More than 130 bands will be featured, with 2/3 of entries from songs from the past 5 years. Each band entry will contain 4 to 8 wrong lyrics. In addition, there will be sidebars with such features as song parodies, fantasy duets, potential commercial soundtracks, humorous trivia tidbits, and other material culled from the website. With a fun, stylized design and package, this will be a great gift for any music fan.

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About the Author

Charles Grosvenor Jr. is a web developer and the founder of AmIRight.com, a compilation of nearly 100,000 examples of misheard song lyrics. He lives in Worcester, MA.

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Sasquatch Books (September 4, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1570615330
• ISBN-13: 978-1570615337
• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 6.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #750,222 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Just OK, September 12, 2009

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This review is from: Hold Me Closer, Tony Danza: And Other Misheard Lyrics (Paperback)

I was excited to buy this book, and related titles, because my wife is constantly mishearing lyrics. It was disappointing to find that the 'misheard' lyrics were seemingly silly submissions by people looking for a laugh (or at least that's my impression). Some of the 'misheard' lyrics are for songs that are so easily understood, one has to wonder if the person who misheard the lyrics was listening to them on AM radio wile mowing the lawn. I expected to get more "Louie Louie" type misheard lyrics (where the singer is unintelligible) but instead you get silly substitions for words. I found it hard to believe that people really heard the lyrics this way. After finding out that the lyrics were submissions to the author, I had to wonder if they were really misheard, or just people seeing how creative they could be. However, all said, the price good and I did get a few laughs. I'll pass it on to someone else when I'm done.