Roche fans?

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 10:00am

Of the Maggie, Terre, and Suzzy variety? Such great harmony, humor and melodies.

Updated On: 3/29/05 at 10:00 AM

[wildcat]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 10:20am

I ADORE THEM!!

Oh, Mr. Sellack
Can I have my job back?
I worked here last year
Remember?....

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 10:29am

We have all been here...

FACE DOWN AT FOLK CITY
by Maggie, Terre and Suzzy Roche

Face down at Folk City
When you came in here your were looking so pretty
With your dracula cape and your bat what a pity
Now you're face down at Folk City

Somebody's singing a song up on the stage
But I'm sorry to say it ain't the latest rage
Two mean men come walking in the door
Now one of 'em stands and the other's on the floor

He's face down at Folk City
When you came in here your were looking so pretty
With your dracula cape and your bat what a pity
Now you're face down at Folk City

Step right up the girl behind the bar
And she looks at you like who the hell you think you are
You spend the next seven hours expressing your soul
Then you go into the girls room and you give it to the bowl.

Ooo I'm having such a great time
Ooo where the sun don't shine
Ooo I'm having such a great time
Ooo where the sun don't shine

When you wake up you don't remember a thing
But you think you hear the telephone ring
Hi I just called to say hello
And to tell you something you might like to know

You were face down at Folk City
When you came in here your were looking so pretty
With your dracula cape and your bat what a pity
Now you're face down at Folk City

[wildcat]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 10:36am

Are they still together as a group? I bought a solo album by one of them last year...isn't it shocking, I can't remember which one...that had a number about "Pink Ballet Slippers"...

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 10:36am

Have not thought of them in years.

[wildcat]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 10:40am

We are Maggie and Terre and Suzzy
Maggie and Terre and Suzzy Roche
We don't give out our ages
And we don't give out our phone numbers
Sometimes our voices give out
But not our ages or our phone numbers...

[SueleenGay]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 10:44am

They do perform but not always as a trio. Suzzy is doing an off-broadway show, House/Lights.
Roches

[Jon]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 11:01am

I don't feel that great today
I have never felt that great
Don't ask me to exercise
Don't ask me what I ate

There's got to be another world out there
Ooh ooh ohh baby...

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 1:23pm

I came when Annie was going on Vacation
And I stayed on almost til December
Now the only thing I want
Is to have my old job back again
I'll do the ketchups
I'll do the creams
I'll get down on my knees and scrub behind the steam table
Waiting tables ain't so bad
Since I saw you last
I've waited for some things that you would not BELIEVE,
To come true!
Let the other fourty Million Three Hundred and twenty
People who want to, get famous!
Now the only thing I want
is to have my old job back again
I won't be nasty to customers no more,
When they send their burgers back I'll tell them
That I'm sorry!

Updated On: 3/29/05 at 01:23 PM

[redhotinnyc2]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 2:29pm

...and I haven't even heard that song since 1980 - would you believe it? I had friends in High School who introduced me to the Roches and we used to sing their stuff all the time - but since then I've never heard any of it again...so the memories this thread brings back are fun!

[magruder]

Posted: 3/29/05 at 2:58pm

I like them too. "The Largest Elizabeth In The World" is the song that hooked me.

THE LARGEST ELIZABETH IN THE WORLD

Didn’t you ever feel like the largest elizabeth in the world?
Usually at a time when the boy is oblivious to the girl
Ireadinthepapertheotherdaythishasbeenhappeningtoeverbodymoreandmore
Thescientistsareonthecasebuttheystilhaven’tfiguredoutwhatitisthatitis
Happening for

Slow down, slow down, slow down

Wouldn’t you like to feel like yourself after suffering so many years?
If you were asked to the party by somebody else you wouldn’t be sitting home
In tears
Ormaybeyou’reoneofthoseinterestingpeoplewhodon’tgooutbuttheygettheirbest
Work done
Bykeepingthemselvesinthehouseoffthestreetandawayfromthescenewhenit’stimefortheresttohave fun

Slow down, slow down, slow down
Come on, slow down, slow down

They say the world’s over
Goodbye see you next time
You don’t have to go

Whatiftheaftereffectoftheterriblebombisunusualbeyondbelief?
Wouldn’tyouratherthewholepopulationhadlistenedtosomebodyliketheoldindian
Chief?
Turnitaroundandgobacktothatsimpletruckstoponthewaytotheunfortunate world
Youmightbethelargestelizabethbutelizabethisstillagoodnametohaveifyou’rea
Girl

Slow down, come on, slow down
Slow down, slow down, slow down
Slow down, slow down, slow down

Updated On: 3/29/05 at 02:58 PM