U Really Got A Hold On Me

[Soul H]

Does anybody know the lyrics and what happens in the video of Smokey Robinsons song "U Really Got A Hold On Me"? I vaguely remember it and I can guarantee, it scared the bojangles outta me back then.

 

[The Count]

Don't have the lyrics, but maybe JFS can help on that front. As for what happened in the video... Smoky Robinson was singing the song to a female letter U Muppet. The funny thing of the song is to see the various ways the female U was pouring herself onto Smoky and not letting him get away. There's a part where the female U squeezes Smoky's head between her uprights, another part where she's on the ground tugging at his ankles, another where she bends the upright waving good-bye, and then the end part where she sort of scoops him up into the bottom curve of her U-shape.
Hope this helps and have a good weekend.

 

[JaniceFerSure]

I don't have the lyrics to it,sorry.I tried looking online thru Google,couldn't find it.

 

[Erine81981]

Does anybody know the lyrics and what happens in the video of Smokey Robinsons song "U Really Got A Hold On Me"? I vaguely remember it and I can guarantee, it scared the bojangles outta me back then.

Here you go.


I don't like you
But I love you
Seems that I'm always thinking of you
Oh, oh, oh
You treat me badly
I love you madly
You've really got a hold on me
You really got a hold on me, baby

I don't want you,
but I need you
Don't want to kiss you
but I need to
Oh, oh, oh
you do me wrong now
my love is strong now
You really got a hold on me
You really got a hold on me, baby

I love you and all I want you to do
is just hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me
Tighter. Tighter.

I want to leave you
don't want to stay here
Don't want to spend
another day here
Oh, oh, oh, I want to split now
I just can't quit now
You really got a hold on me
You really got a hold on me, baby

I love you and all I want you to do
is just hold me, hold me, hold me, hold me

You really got a hold on me
You really got a hold on me

There you go. Have fun w/ it

 

[Xerus]

I remember hearing one time that Smokey said a little kid recognized him from Sesame Street and ran up to him and asked, "Where's your U?"

 

[MuppetDude]

LOL. By the way, the lyrics JFS sent aren't exactly the ones used on SS. They changed the lyrics a bit to center around "U".

 

[Soul H]

Did the video by chance scare anyone?

 

[The Count]

No, not particularly.
Though now that I'm older, would've maybe liked it better if it had been a male U Muppet squeezing and grabbing onto a female singer.
But it's an OK song/sketch.

 

[Soul H]

It's already happened in the mid 90's when Melissa Etheridge sings "Like the Way U Do" the same thing more-or-less happens.

No, not particularly.
Though now that I'm older, would've maybe liked it better if it had been a male U Muppet squeezing and grabbing onto a female singer.
But it's an OK song/sketch.

 

[denimalex]

I don't think that it was scary - although I was into my teens the first time that I saw it. I knew that it was one of the typical SS parodies or plays on words, and thought it was kind of funny.
Really, what's scary about a letter U that wants to chill with Smokey?