The second greatest Swedish band of all time — only behind the sensational ABBA — has a huge list of songs that were (and still are) great hits of pop music. “The Look”, “Listen To Your Heart”, “Dressed For Success”, “Dangerous” and many others reached #1 across Europe, Oceania and America. One of the Roxette greatest successes is “Joyride”, the song that names their third studio album. “Joyride” is the only one, if my researches don't fail, which there is whistles.
In Songfacts.com we can read that the song was written by Per Gessler, inspired on a note, left by his girlfriend, saying “Hej din tok, jag alskar dig” which means “Hello you fool I love you” in Swedish.
The song name is also interesting (copied from here): “Joyride is Roxette’s third album and the title is taken from an interview with Paul McCartney where he says: ‘writing songs with John Lennon was a long joyride’”.
In this same webpage I found another curious fact, now about the whistling: “On the Swedish vinyl single the run-off groove has the following message engraved: ‘Was it really neccessary to whistle’. This phrase is a comment from someone who heard this song for the first time”.
Moreover, Gessler is the whistle owner.
Hello, you fool I love you!
C'mon join the joyride
I hit the road out of nowhere,
I had to jump in my car
and be a rider in a love game
following the stars,
don't need no book of wisdom,
I get no money talk at all
She has a train going downtown,
she's got a club on the moon
and she's telling all her secrets
in a wonderful balloon.
She's the heart of the funfair,
she's got me whistling her private tune
And it all begins where it ends,
and she's all mine,
my magic friend
She says: hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon join the joyride, join the joyride
She's a flower, I can paint her,
she's a child of the sun,
we're a part of this together,
could never turn around and run
Don't need no fortune teller
to know where my lucky love belongs oh no
Cos it all begins again when it ends, yea,
and we're all
magic friends.
She says: hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon join the joyride, join the joyride
She says: hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon join the joyride, be a joyrider
I take you on a skyride,
I felling like you're spellbound
The sunshine is a lady
who ROX you like a baby
She says: hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon join the joyride, join the joyride
Hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon join the joyride, join the joyride
Hello, hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon c'mon join the joyride, be a joyrider
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In Songfacts.com we can read that the song was written by Per Gessler, inspired on a note, left by his girlfriend, saying “Hej din tok, jag alskar dig” which means “Hello you fool I love you” in Swedish.
The song name is also interesting (copied from here): “Joyride is Roxette’s third album and the title is taken from an interview with Paul McCartney where he says: ‘writing songs with John Lennon was a long joyride’”.
In this same webpage I found another curious fact, now about the whistling: “On the Swedish vinyl single the run-off groove has the following message engraved: ‘Was it really neccessary to whistle’. This phrase is a comment from someone who heard this song for the first time”.
Moreover, Gessler is the whistle owner.
Hello, you fool I love you!
C'mon join the joyride
I hit the road out of nowhere,
I had to jump in my car
and be a rider in a love game
following the stars,
don't need no book of wisdom,
I get no money talk at all
She has a train going downtown,
she's got a club on the moon
and she's telling all her secrets
in a wonderful balloon.
She's the heart of the funfair,
she's got me whistling her private tune
And it all begins where it ends,
and she's all mine,
my magic friend
She says: hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon join the joyride, join the joyride
She's a flower, I can paint her,
she's a child of the sun,
we're a part of this together,
could never turn around and run
Don't need no fortune teller
to know where my lucky love belongs oh no
Cos it all begins again when it ends, yea,
and we're all
magic friends.
She says: hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon join the joyride, join the joyride
She says: hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon join the joyride, be a joyrider
I take you on a skyride,
I felling like you're spellbound
The sunshine is a lady
who ROX you like a baby
She says: hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon join the joyride, join the joyride
Hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon join the joyride, join the joyride
Hello, hello, you fool, I love you,
c'mon c'mon join the joyride, be a joyrider
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Very nice but Per is called GESSLE not Gessler
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