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PRESS AND WEB SIGHTINGS FOR OFF BROADWAY

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Bad Indication"
Misheard Lyrics:
We'll attack with art artillery.
Original Lyrics:
We'd attack with all artillery.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Bully, Bully"
Misheard Lyrics:
All you wanna do is rockin' mister, can't you sing?
The 'prove, it's in the band.
Original Lyrics:
All we wanna do is rock you mister, can't you see?
The proof is in the band.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Bully, Bully"
Misheard Lyrics:
I moved my cool
I lifted my guitar and busted out of its teeth, oh yeah.
Original Lyrics:
I blew my cool
I lifted my guitar and busted out his teeth, oh yeah.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Bully, Bully"
Misheard Lyrics:
We get our rocking back, playing all the dancers could be really cool
We got a date, Friday night a mixer at the high school, Jim
The band was hot, everybody rocking 'til the trucks rolled in
Who will they know?
Original Lyrics:
And get a rocking band, playing all the dances could be really cool
We got a date, Friday night a mixer at the high school gym
The band was hot, everybody rocking 'til the jerks rolled in
Who let them in?

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Bully, Bully"
Misheard Lyrics:
Wooly bully, oh, wooly bully.
Original Lyrics:
Bully bully, oh, bully bully.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Drop Me A Line"
Misheard Lyrics:
Ooooh baby, all I need you to stay.
Original Lyrics:
Ooooh baby, all I'm needing to say.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Full Moon Turn My Head Around"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't turn my head 'round and 'ro-o-ound, oh yeah.
Original Lyrics:
Don't turn your head but around and 'round, oh yeah.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Full Moon Turn My Head Around"
Misheard Lyrics:
When I'm agy and I'm feeling little dizzy
Like I'm going wraught.
Original Lyrics:
When I'm edgy and I feel a little crazy
And I'm going wrong.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Full Moon Turn My Head Around"
Misheard Lyrics:
When the moon is full of boy
I think we definitely lose his head.
Original Lyrics:
When the moon is full
A boy like me can definitely lose his head.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Hang On For Love"
Misheard Lyrics:
And you'll be loved.
Original Lyrics:
And you'll be glad.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Money's No Good"
Misheard Lyrics:
So you think you wanna bite me
I don't think I'm gonna s***.
Original Lyrics:
So you think you wanna buy me
I don't think I'm gonna sell.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "New Little Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
I go caca when we get a connection.
Original Lyrics:
I go ga-ga when we get a connection.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "New Little Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
She's so fine
She make 'Turn Back The Clock'.
Original Lyrics:
She's so fine
She make time like a clock.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "New Little Girl"
Misheard Lyrics:
Wish she can fi-i-ind me...hate!
Original Lyrics:
Wish she would follow me...hey!

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Oh, Boy!"
Misheard Lyrics:
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no...no...wooooooo.
Original Lyrics:
Woe woe woe woe wah uh uhhhhhhhh wooooooo.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Oh, Boy!"
Misheard Lyrics:
Oh, boy! You're takin' time out
or
Oh, boy! You need a time out
or
Oh, boy! Just take a time out.
Original Lyrics:
Oh, boy! You're makin' time now.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Oh, Boy!"
Misheard Lyrics:
You were the cowboy, you gutted in everyone's way
Nobody got to know you until the other day
You caught me crying and introduced you now.
Original Lyrics:
You were the loner, you got in everyone's way
Nobody got to know you until the other day
You caught me crying and introduced your eyes.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "Stay In Time"
Misheard Lyrics:
Don't you now that your denying you're life?
What a shame, boy.
Original Lyrics:
Don't you know now you're denying your love?
What a shame, boy.

Off Broadway U.S.A.'s, "You Belong To You"
Misheard Lyrics:
I'm screaming all my life 'boys must be strong'.
Original Lyrics:
I'll scream it all my life 'boys must be strong'.

Check out this website: BandToBand.com
if you click here you'll land on the Off Broadway USA page

Biography from AllMusic.Com

Off Broadway was a late-'70s power pop group from Chicago. That put them in a position roughly equivalent to that of Shaquille O'Neal's backup. In this case O'Neal was Cheap Trick and Off Broadway was doomed to obscurity. Much like Cheap Trick, Off Broadway played a quirky hopped-up blend of Beatlesque melodies and Move-like power. They didn't rock quite as hard and vocalist Cliff Johnson had nowhere near the style and range that Robin Zander did (then again, how many vocalists do?), but they wrote catchy songs and managed to sell around 200,000 copies of their 1979 debut album, On. Another album, Quick Turns, followed in 1980 and met with little acclaim or sales. Touring as an opening act for heavy metal bands did the group no favors as the audiences hated them and they became disillusioned with the music business. They soldiered on through the disappointment for a couple more years and then gave up in 1983. Perhaps inspired by the new wave of power pop-inspired bands that sounded very much like Off Broadway and the re-release of On in 1996, four members of the original band got together in the late '90s as Black on Blond and began playing clubs in the Chicago area. Due to audience requests, they began adding Off Broadway material to their set and soon decided to become Off Broadway again. In 1997, the band recorded and released their first record in 17 years, Fallin' In, and followed it with a live set in 1998, Live at Fitzgeralds. They may never have reached the big time but they are remembered quite fondly by power pop connoisseurs the world over.

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