{"id":25976,"date":"2015-03-12T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/?p=25976"},"modified":"2026-07-21T21:13:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T04:13:21","slug":"cover-me-mony-mony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estreetshuffle.com\/index.php\/2015\/03\/12\/cover-me-mony-mony\/","title":{"rendered":"Mony Mony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s one of the great unsolved mysteries of rock and roll.<\/p>\n<p>Years before the World Wide Web, &#8220;Mony Mony&#8221; somehow managed to generate a bona fide, nationwide meme.\u00a0 But where the heck did it come from?<\/p>\n<p>You know the song.\u00a0<em>Everyone<\/em> knows the song. It&#8217;s been a Top Ten hit three times over: once in its original form, the 1968 single by Tommy James and the Shondells that topped the U.K. Singles chart and made it to #3 in the United States&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7b4vHGBk9cU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;a second time when Billy Idol took it to #7 on the Billboard Dance chart in 1981&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s9aOtXrO1Ps?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&#8230;and\u00a0<em>again\u00a0<\/em>for Billy Idol in 1987, when his live version went all the way to #1 on the Billboard Hot 100.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sYYAv-QW38Q?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>And it was that last version that spawned the meme.<\/p>\n<p>Now if you&#8217;re reading this from Europe, Australia, or anywhere else outside of North America, you&#8217;re probably scratching your head trying to figure out what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>But if you came of age in North America during the 1980s, you know <em>exactly\u00a0<\/em>what I&#8217;m talking about.<\/p>\n<p>Somehow, somewhen, somebody first uttered these immortal words after every verse line:<\/p>\n<p><em>Hey! Hey what? Get laid, get fucked!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Or something like that. That&#8217;s what we shouted in Philadelphia, but there are several regional variations of the first part of the chant across the U.S. and Canada. The second part is always the same, though.<\/p>\n<p>The thing is: no one knows exactly how it started. Like, <em>no one<\/em>. Not even Billy Idol, who&#8217;s been asked about it at length:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Billy Idol explains the origins of the special audience lyrics for &quot;Mony Mony&quot; by alancross\" width=\"758\" height=\"400\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?visual=true&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F172934348&#038;show_artwork=true&#038;maxheight=1000&#038;maxwidth=758\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>All we know is that it started in 1987, and it&#8217;s continued ever since. By the time Billy Idol reissued &#8220;Mony Mony&#8221; in 2018 as a remix, he pretty much had no choice but to include the unofficial lyrics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Cyt-BY-vqms?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>What does this have to do with Bruce? Nothing, really, I&#8217;m just fascinated by it. But I swear: if you listen intently during the half-dozen times he covered &#8220;Mony Mony&#8221; during the Working on a Dream Tour in 2009, you can definitely hear the crowd chanting.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/zoC1avyvCls?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I think so, at least. My brain has mentally filled in those lines for so long, I can&#8217;t even tell anymore if I really hear them or not.<\/p>\n<p>I had to laugh, though, when Bruce released an official video of the very first time he ever covered it at one of his concerts, because the &#8220;weird part&#8221; he skips to is\u00a0<em>not at all\u00a0<\/em> what I would consider the weird part.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"758\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yVdKRebTKx4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p>I wasn&#8217;t there that night, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I can guess why Bruce edited out all the verses.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bonus:<\/strong> Bruce actually covered &#8220;Mony Mony&#8221; once prior to the Working on a Dream Tour, but you definitely can\u00a0<em>not<\/em> hear the &#8220;get laid&#8221; chant during it. That&#8217;s because it was 1982, five years before the meme originated. The performance is notable anyway, though, because it was the very first song Bruce and Joe Grushecky ever performed together, at Big Man&#8217;s West way back in Joe&#8217;s Iron City Houserockers days. Take a listen below.<\/p>\n<div id=\"v-kMw6mBVD-1\" class=\"video-player\"><iframe title='VideoPress Video Player' aria-label='VideoPress Video Player' width='758' height='426' src='https:\/\/videopress.com\/embed\/kMw6mBVD?hd=1&amp;cover=1&amp;loop=0&amp;autoPlay=0&amp;permalink=1&amp;muted=0&amp;controls=1&amp;playsinline=0&amp;useAverageColor=0&amp;preloadContent=metadata' frameborder='0' allowfullscreen data-resize-to-parent=\"true\" allow='clipboard-write; presentation'><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><strong>Mony Mony<br \/>\nFirst performed:<\/strong> July 17, 1982 (Red Bank, New Jersey)<br \/>\n<strong>Last performed:<\/strong> July 8, 2009 (Herning, Denmark)<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 March 18, 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s the first song Bruce and Joe Grushecky ever performed together and one of the greatest mysteries of rock and 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