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Song Name: The Words Get Stuck In My Throat

Artist:   DEVO with Booji Boy (Cover Song)

Released Versions:   

"The Words Get Stuck In My Throat (LIVE)" (5:27)   Recombo DNA (1977 live version)
"The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" (LIVE) (6:48)   DEVO Battles Live: 2012, CD 2 (bonus disc: live 1978-Dec-7 version)               
"The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" (2:49)   Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology  (2000 studio version)                   

Years Performed:   [1] [2] 1977-1979 setlist.fm stats

Adaptation Credit:   Booji Boy

Inspired By:   "Feel In My Heart", written by H.B. Barnum [3]

Sung By:   Booji Boy [4]

Trivia:[]

  • Booji Boy often performed this cover song, from '77 to '79, as the closing song of Devo's live set.
  • There are minor lyric differences between the performances by Trinnie Lee Kearney and by Kipp Hamilton.[5]
  • There are minor differences between DEVO’s live versions of “The Words Get Stuck In My Throat” and their studio version. The verses are somewhat rearranged, as Booji Boy speaks to the audience before the song picks up again.

Onstage Behavior:

DEVO conclude the concert performance by inviting Booji Boy to say what he knows.
Booji sings from the heart, backed by DEVO, and the sound of a toy piano.

Lyrics:   "|The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" - LyricWikia

Additional Info:

  • DEVO extrapolate more lyrics for the song, based on the verse about the "microphone hidden in my heart".
  • In the film, the singer's set was interrupted by Gaira, the giant green Frankenstein kaijin.
  • After visiting California with DEVO, Mark gave Russ Tamblyn a synth soundtrack for Tamblyn's one-man play. Tamblyn was told by Mark that he starred in Mark's favorite movie.
  • Live versions are available from BBB. [6]

References:

  1. DEVO Live Guide. Website keyword search for "words get stuck in my throat".
    huboon.com/1979.html (https://archive.is/1lxx0#selection-231.269-231.297)
  2. Booji Boy's Basement. Website search for "the words get stuck in my throat.
  3. "Feel In My Heart" is attributed to H.B. Barnum [1]
    "Feel In My Heart" is featured on the 1965 album Romantic Inception,
    by professional singer Trinnie Lee Kearney.
    For the 1966 Toho / UPA co-production, フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ / Frankenstein's Monster: Sanda Vs. Gaira,
    "Feel In My Heart" was recorded by an amateur singer - actress Kipp Hamilton -
    who lip-syncs to her version in the movie.
    DEVO based their deconstruction - "The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" -
    on the chorus, and on one verse, of the song "Feel In My Heart"
    as it appears in The War of the Gargantuas, the re-titled US dub of the
    film, which was released in 1970.
    The original film credits all music to composer Akira Ifukube / 伊福部昭.
  4. “The Words Get Stuck In My Throat – Booji Boy”
    - printed on back cover of Pioneers Who Got Scalped: The Anthology
  5. There are minor lyric differences between the performances by Trinnie Lee Kearney and by Kipp Hamilton:
    (As sung by Hamilton)                       [Different lyrics, sung by Kearney]
    (intro)                                        [intro]
    If my lips could only say the pretty words,
    That I feel in my heart.
    If my voice could make the sound,           
    I would tell you how I love you,                I can tell you how I love you,
    And we'd never be apart.
    But with just one look                         But when I start to look
    into your face,
    My mind starts to drift
    right into space,                               out into space,
    And the words
    get stuck in my throat,
    The words
    get stuck in my throat.
    (trumpet break)                                [trumpet break + violins]
    If I had a hidden microphone inside of my heart,
    I would turn the power on.
    It would amplify my love for you
    and swear to always love you,
    and you’d never be gone.
    But with just one look
    into your eyes,
    I become excited,
    and it’s no surprise that,
    The words
    get stuck in my throat,
    The words
    get stuck in my throat.
    And every time I try to cough,
    I can't speak at all, because
    The words
    get stuck in my throat,
    The words
    get stuck in my throat,
    The words
    get stuck in my throat,
    Mmm-hmm, mm-hm, do-do-doo..                  The words… [fade out]
    (applause)
    (screaming)
    (2:08)   (film version)                          [2:05]   ["Feel In My Heart"]
    War of the Gargantuas (1966) "The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" all versions!” uploaded to YouTube by Cult Asian Soundtracks
    Kipp Hamilton sings the lyric lines more haltingly than does Kearney, whose vocals are double-tracked, and backed by a more lush horn and strings production.
    Hamilton's version was reportedly quickly recorded, though at least one other vocal take was made.
    ===============================
    Covers of "Feel In My Heart" - credited as "The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" - include:
    Wondermints (live) feat. Lisa Mychols
    https://www.facebook.com/Lisamycholsmusicofficial/videos/live-performance-of-the-wondermints-feat-lisa-mychols-for-words-get-stuck-dont-m/317252038974009/
    1999
    Dump - “Women In Rock” (album)
    (Bassist James McNew of Yo La Tengo)
    https://music.apple.com/us/song/the-words-get-stuck-in-my-throat/128364071
    https://open.spotify.com/track/5YmccVw286v3eU0F3xIesJ
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGzo1TCHbxs
    https://www.worldradiohistory.com/Archive-All-Music/CMJ/1999/CMJ-1999-02-08.pdf (p24 of 64)
    2009
    Deep River Running - “Deep River Running” (album)
    (Nick Schider)
    https://music.apple.com/us/song/the-words-get-stuck/367636972
    https://nickschinder.bandcamp.com/track/the-words-get-stuck
    2010
    Fran Southworth (as “Singer”) in the eleventh Scooby-Doo series:
    Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated, S1 E9: Battle of the Humungonauts
    "Feel In My Heart", credited as: "The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" (2:16)   
    (with partial lyrics from the film version:)
    If my lips could only say the pretty words,
    That I feel in my heart.
    If my voice could make the sound,
    I would tell you how I love you.
    And we'd never be apart.
    But with just one look into your face,
    My mind starts to drift right into space.
    And the words get stuck in my throat,
    The words get stuck in my throat.
    The words get stuck in my throat,
    The words get stuck in my throat.
    And every time I try to cough
    I can't speak at all, because
    The words get stuck in my throat,
    The words get stuck in my throat.
    Extra Info:
    This Tiki lounge version is faithful to the easy listening, Burt Bacharach style of the original song, and is a tribute to the feature film version.
    Southworth may have recorded a partial performance: when the song was used again – in S2 E18 “Dance of the Undead” - the singer is interrupted before the second verse.
    Mark Mothersbaugh wrote the music and lyrics for the theme of the tenth Scooby-Doo series: Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue!, and scored the show with three other Mutato Muzika composers: Albert Fox, John Enroth, and Silas Hite. They were all nominated for a 2007 Emmy Award.[2]
    ===============================
  6. Live versions of "The Words Get Stuck In My Throat" are available from BBB:
    boojiboysbasement.com/?s="The+Words+Get+Stuck+In+My+Throat"

Links:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060440/
https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/the-war-of-the-gargantuas
discogs.com/release/11379520-伊福部 昭* – フランケンシュタインの怪獣 サンダ対ガイラ (オリジナル・サウンドトラック)
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