The only other song I know that mentions San Jose is “Beach Baby” by First Class. “We couldn’t wait for graduation day. We took my car and drove to San Jose …”
I took the risk of an earworm and looked for this on YouTube. I’m not sure if I’d ever heard it before, but I don’t think having it running through my head is going to be an issue. Maybe there’s a different song with the same name that actually is catchy.
As someone who live in the East Bay Area, this ranks up there with one the most annoying songs ever (“Are You Going to San Francisco” is #1 in my books because I live 30 minute drive away)
She should have answered “I’ve been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way!” Or maybe Rat should have asked this way. After all, he’s the one who lost his way. I wonder why there are so many songs about Hollywood wannabe actors failing. Do you remember “It never rains in Southern California?”
I recently watched the film, The Last Black Man in San Francisco," and for some reason I’ve had the tune “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” from its soundtrack running through my head the past week.
A few years back me and a friend were lost. We stopped at a gas station to ask for directions. Half a dozen people in the gas station said they had lived around there for many years and had never heard of the road we were looking for. As we sat in the truck looking at the map I just happen to look up. I seen the road sign across the street. It WAS the road we were looking for. I went back into the gas station and pointed the sign out to them. They all were like dumb founded. They did not know the names of the streets they had drove everyday for years.
Some songwriters try to say something, in a poetic fashion,that will make you think. Others just try to make it stick in your brain, no matter how annoyingly.
Burt Bacharach & Hal David, alas, fall firmly in the second camp.
Yesterday someone pulled over and asked for directions as I walked by on the sidewalk. I never knew that could happen in these days, but not everyone has electronic navigation.
About 20 years ago, I stopped at a service station in the Dallas area to ask for directions. Instead of giving me a straight answer, the guy behind the counter started to give me a rash of B.S. I turned to the three or four women in line behind me and stated, “Ladies, this is why guys don’t like to ask for directions. Once you admit you are lost, you lose all respect in the eyes of other guys like this one.”
BE THIS GUY over 4 years ago
Where’s your Google maps when you need them?
Orcatime over 4 years ago
I used to get asked that a lot when I lived in Northern California.
wiatr over 4 years ago
Good thing I’m listening to MeTV radio. That will cut down the chances I’ll be singing that to myself whilst trying to go to sleep.
luvdafuneez over 4 years ago
Only earworm worse than that is “The Name Game” (fanny fanny bo fanny, etc.) ugh!
B UTTONS over 4 years ago
I left my home in GeorgiaHeaded for the Frisco Bay -
I left my heart in San Francisco
DennisinSeattle Premium Member over 4 years ago
I drive out bad earworms with earworms that I like. Eg Shakira at the World Cup in South Africa!
Krispi Critter over 4 years ago
Where is a rat with a bat when you need one?
comicsboi Premium Member over 4 years ago
I doubt that works for many people under the age of 60 or so. Maybe 65? I’m 55, and can just barely recall the tune.
hariseldon59 over 4 years ago
The only other song I know that mentions San Jose is “Beach Baby” by First Class. “We couldn’t wait for graduation day. We took my car and drove to San Jose …”
enigmamz over 4 years ago
I had never heard that song until the NHL put a team there.
Bilan over 4 years ago
I know this is nitpicking, but isn’t Goat also lost?
Sherlock Watson over 4 years ago
It takes quite a bit of work to come up with clever comments, but I don’t wanna work; I want to bang on the drum all day.
Kaputnik over 4 years ago
I took the risk of an earworm and looked for this on YouTube. I’m not sure if I’d ever heard it before, but I don’t think having it running through my head is going to be an issue. Maybe there’s a different song with the same name that actually is catchy.
Concretionist over 4 years ago
I think she’s wrong. She answered this question, not Rat’s: “Do you know Do you Know the Way to San Jose?”
Gent over 4 years ago
San Jose? Not my destination. I’m on a highway to hell.
Dobie Takahama over 4 years ago
Is a San Jose Resident Here, where I’m at!
Lyons Group, Inc. over 4 years ago
My ear worm is Billy Preston’s Outa Space (1972)
kaffekup over 4 years ago
Forgive me.
https://youtu.be/V7jel2l_iag
GROG Premium Member over 4 years ago
I loved this song. I first heard it on Sirius XM’s 60’s on 6. Dionne Warwick sang it back in the latter 60’s.
wllilly1960 over 4 years ago
…Is anybody going to San Antone? Or Phoenix, Arizona. Any place is alright as long as I – can forget I’ve ever known her.
TwilightFaze over 4 years ago
As someone who live in the East Bay Area, this ranks up there with one the most annoying songs ever (“Are You Going to San Francisco” is #1 in my books because I live 30 minute drive away)
The Old Wolf over 4 years ago
And thank you very little. Well, there’s only one cure for that:
♫ It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small world after all,
It’s a small, small world! ♫
Kind&Kinder over 4 years ago
“Be kind to your web-footed friends, ‘cause a duck may be somebody’s mother…”
James Wolfenstein over 4 years ago
She should have answered “I’ve been away so long. I may go wrong and lose my way!” Or maybe Rat should have asked this way. After all, he’s the one who lost his way. I wonder why there are so many songs about Hollywood wannabe actors failing. Do you remember “It never rains in Southern California?”
Breadboard over 4 years ago
Sure … I Know The Way To … San Jose Water Group … Stock Symbol “SJW” … Croc Power !
Phaeton51 over 4 years ago
“It’s a Small World (After All)”, your welcome.
Andrew Sleeth over 4 years ago
I recently watched the film, The Last Black Man in San Francisco," and for some reason I’ve had the tune “San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)” from its soundtrack running through my head the past week.
buer over 4 years ago
Hal David must have been writing his songs on the road. He needed to know the way to San Jose and he was 24 hours away from Tulsa.
Ignatz Premium Member over 4 years ago
Been a long time since I heard that song. Do young people even know it anymore?
Ignatz Premium Member over 4 years ago
My current earworm is “Salve Regina.” I’m not right in the head.
Zebrastripes over 4 years ago
Try this one…https://youtu.be/8N_tupPBtWQ
david_42 over 4 years ago
San Jose – a hundred villages looking for a city.
Reader over 4 years ago
Apparently she doesn’t know the way, but she does have a lot of friends in San Jose.
David Henderson over 4 years ago
A few years back me and a friend were lost. We stopped at a gas station to ask for directions. Half a dozen people in the gas station said they had lived around there for many years and had never heard of the road we were looking for. As we sat in the truck looking at the map I just happen to look up. I seen the road sign across the street. It WAS the road we were looking for. I went back into the gas station and pointed the sign out to them. They all were like dumb founded. They did not know the names of the streets they had drove everyday for years.
Ellis97 over 4 years ago
Everything is stuck in my head like every Between the Lions song ever made.
Fred over 4 years ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=6&v=FZLa-1q-lkw&feature=emb_title
Rotary12 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Thanks Stephan.
joyridehawk over 4 years ago
Do you know the way to use ebay?
witten.homer175 over 4 years ago
It,a a small small world,
Snolep over 4 years ago
They need to take their horse to the Old Town Road and,,,,,,.
ksu71 over 4 years ago
I’ve had ‘Waltzing Matilda’ stuck in my head for a couple weeks. But I don’t mind it’s a nice song.
Radish the wordsmith over 4 years ago
L.A. is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car
In a week, maybe two, they’ll make you a star
Weeks turn into years. How quick they pass
And all the stars that never were
Are parking cars and pumping gas
Cozmik Cowboy over 4 years ago
Some songwriters try to say something, in a poetic fashion,that will make you think. Others just try to make it stick in your brain, no matter how annoyingly.
Burt Bacharach & Hal David, alas, fall firmly in the second camp.
Casey Jones over 4 years ago
“A weemoway a weemoway….”
WCraft Premium Member over 4 years ago
Great song!
Snoots over 4 years ago
“All my friends are Heathens take it slow…”
TheodorFælgen over 4 years ago
I prefer the cover version by Frankie goes to Hollywood and it is a plus that on the same album there are tracks like “Relax” and “Two tribes”.
Ermine Notyours over 4 years ago
Yesterday someone pulled over and asked for directions as I walked by on the sidewalk. I never knew that could happen in these days, but not everyone has electronic navigation.
hitek1st over 4 years ago
Kinda dated reference there, Mr. Pastis.
ocarol7 Premium Member over 4 years ago
I lived in the Bay Area when that song was popular and I too will never get it out of the music files in my my head… the ultimate ear worm-
bobdingus over 4 years ago
We who came of age in the 60s acquired many ear worms. I use them to remember the names of people I just met.
DCBakerEsq over 4 years ago
Why would anyone want to go to San Jose?
Plods with ...™ over 4 years ago
L.A. is a great big freeway
Put a hundred down and buy a car
In a week, maybe two, they’ll make you a star
jimboklein over 4 years ago
About 20 years ago, I stopped at a service station in the Dallas area to ask for directions. Instead of giving me a straight answer, the guy behind the counter started to give me a rash of B.S. I turned to the three or four women in line behind me and stated, “Ladies, this is why guys don’t like to ask for directions. Once you admit you are lost, you lose all respect in the eyes of other guys like this one.”
zeexenon over 4 years ago
Well, you start at Santa Catalina Island, swim northeast 26 miles across the sea to Long Beach, then drive north west for at least 6 hours.
nikkyp05 over 4 years ago
I don’t know the way to San Jose, but is this the way to Amarillo?
RuinQueenofOblivion over 4 years ago
I’m having flashbacks to Who’s Line is it Anyway.
lv2sew over 4 years ago
99 bottles of beer on the wall…….
Radish the wordsmith over 4 years ago
I should have made that left turn at Albuquerque.
JP Steve Premium Member over 4 years ago
Hank’s been there…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGj7-R6WPf4
Sisyphos over 4 years ago
Gag! I got so sick of that song, back in the day when I’d hear it played repeatedly. Made me an un-fan of Dione Warwick….
Rat and Goat, On the Road? Dharma Bums?
alexius23 over 4 years ago
Dione Warwick approved
amayesin over 4 years ago
Lime in the cocoanut!
SuperCharged5- about 2 years ago
you just lost the game