The story behind 'Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)'

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Well it is a classic 70’s song. The “best song ever written” part though is up for grabs.

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I remember listening to this song on the radio, and buying a greatest hits cassette from Radio Shack that had it as well. And then Looking Glass covered their own song, changing the title to Jimmy Loves Maryanne. /s

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I remember hearing Brandy come in number 2 or 3 a few weeks in a row on Casey Kasem’s Top 40 countdown.

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There are only two possible choices.

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I like that song. Liked it way before GotG made it cool again.

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Well it is a nice song, but it’s not a Louie Louie.

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I don’t know why people get so incensed at the “one of the best songs ever written” line being thrown out there. Brandy is a song that has endured, maybe not with the young’uns, but it has endured.

Ah well. Music is subjective. Brandy is a great song. Back when radio was magical.

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I could think of a song that I hate more, but I’m lazy.

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I seem to recall that years ago the late San Francisco columnist Herb Caen wrote a column in which he spent some time with a local woman who claimed to be the “real” Brandy that the song was based on. But instead of a bartender she had been a stripper.

Of course, that might have been her own delusion, but just wanted to get that into the record here.

Tom

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The horror.

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Not only is it now considered a classic AND one of the best songs ever written, it was written AND composed by Elliot Lurie!!

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I thought that was the funniest part of the movie.

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There actually is an audible “fuck” at about 55 seconds in. But it isn’t part of the lyrics; it’s the drummer fumbling his sticks.

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You can pretty clearly hear John saying “fucking hell” in Hey Jude at 2:58 if you listen carefully. (I love trivia like this.)

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http://www.bastwood.com/?page_id=10

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Eek.

Right before bedtime, thanks a bunch. :face_with_raised_eyebrow:

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Well, I happen to think it’s one of the best songs ever written. Catchy melody, unique vocals, and great storytelling-lyrics. It’s stood the test of time which is at least one of the qualities a song needs to qualify for such a claim.

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Sort of like “I could care less, but I couldn’t be bothered.”

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This. The song WAS popular way back when. So was, ‘Billy, Don’t Be a Hero’, and ‘The Night Chicago Died’, and ‘Chirpy-Chirpy-Cheep-Cheep’, which I love because it was so weird. But all of them are crap. The early 70s was an…odd…time.