Yes­ter­day a friend and I were stand­ing on a New York City side­walk, wait­ing for the light, when Stayin’ Alive began issu­ing at top vol­ume from a near­by car. Pavlov­ian con­di­tion­ing kicked in imme­di­ate­ly.  We’d been singing along with the Bee Gees for near­ly a minute before real­iz­ing that nei­ther of us knew the lyrics. … Con­tin­ue read­ing Prisen­co­l­i­nensi­nain­ciu­sol, the Catchy Ital­ian Pop Song That Sound­ed Like It Had Eng­lish Lyrics, But Was Actu­al­ly Gib­ber­ish (1972)