Talk:Mama Told Me Not to Come

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Eric Burdon released a version of "Mama told me not to come" on his 1967 Album "Eric is Here" this predates the Randy Newman 1970 release although the songwriter is credited as Randy Newman.

  • I've independently confirmed your info and edited the article accordingly. Engineer Bob 19:46, 10 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]


I've removed this

Newman mentions Three Dog Night's version is better than his, and his favorite of all versions.[citation needed]

Can't find a source for this, and this is the same unverified claim as made for Your Song, for the TDN version of Elton John's song. I find it a bit suspicious.Trishm (talk) 09:37, 5 October 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Dr. John, the Night Tripper, covered Mama Told Me Not To Come. His version was played in Blues Brothers 2000 in which he appeared, joining B.B. King's big band 98.121.163.189 (talk) 09:53, 6 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Once and for all, it's "strait-laced"![edit]

Read the dictionary, people! "Strait(s) of Gibraltar", "strait jacket", etc. ... Now, will someone with the time please search all three million articles for this pandemic misuse? Or maybe invent a bot to find "straight-laced" (-jacket) and replace it? Can't be that hard for someone who knows how to write one. (I don't.) Unimaginative Username (talk) 05:11, 14 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

A lot of people would have been shocked by a hippy party - not just an "extraordinarily strait-laced young man"! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.197.15.138 (talk) 04:13, 21 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

It's amazingly funny that Tom Jones covered this song - that icon of showbiz manlyness - and even funnier if you take the double sense of "come" into account. ;) 83.254.154.164 (talk) 08:13, 29 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

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"Time Change?"[edit]

I cannot figure out what the "...same 3/4 by 2/4 time change..." is in either version. Certainly the introductory keyboard in both versions plays a pattern that is not in x/4 time (is it 3/4?), but that is not qualify as a "change" in the time signature. As near as I can tell both recordings are in 4/4 throughout. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.115.179.142 (talk) 22:11, 23 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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